Friday, May 27, 2016

Food security episode (IRRI and the genebank)

Green Living, ANC

IRRI was featured in the show, Green Living. View video

Farmers told: Brace for more pests, diseases during wet season

Sun Star

Leaf blight, according to the International Rice Research Institute (IRRI), is a disease most likely to develop in areas that have weeds and stubbles of infected plants. Read more

IRRI warns of another rice shortage

Philippine Daily Inquirer

The combined stock of milled rice held by the world’s top five exporters has gone down to the bare minimum and the monsoon season setting in could push the world market toward another supply shortage like in 2007 and 2008. Read more

5 Iloilo towns selected for rice initiative program

Sun Star

FIVE rice producing municipalities in the province of Iloilo were selected as project sites of the Better Rice Initiatives Asia-Fostering Agriculture and Rice Marketing by improved Education and Rural advisory Services (BRIA-Farmers) funded by the German government’s Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ). Read more

Iloilo towns to pilot rice initiatives

Manila Times

Five rice-producing municipalities in the province of Iloilo were selected as project sites of the Better Rice Initiatives Asia – Fostering Agriculture and Rice Marketing by improved Education and Rural advisory Services (BRIA FARMERS). Read more

TESDA, IRRI ink deal on Agri-mechanization Technology

TESDA

The Technical Education and Skills Development Authority (TESDA) and the International Rice Research Institute (IRRI) have forged a partnership to work together for the development and delivery of Agri-mechanization Technology training courses in the country. Read more

Friday, May 13, 2016

Legarda Urges Gov't to Utilize IRRI Programs to Improve Agriculture in PHL

Senate of the Philippines | 13 May 2016

Senator Loren Legarda today said that the government must utilize the research programs of the International Rice Research Institute (IRRI) to improve agricultural systems in the country and to adapt to the changing climate. Read more