A country that is home to around one-fifth of the entire planet’s population faces some serious challenges....
Crop management
On a steaming hot Beijing day in August 2007, a group of researchers from China Agricultural University...
“Nature has sent the rats to our homesteads by thousands, and farmers are being eaten off the...
Nitrogen (N) is without doubt the nutrient that most limits rice production. It is typically required in...
. In the 1870s, scientists exploring Amazonia in South America made an unusual discovery. Working independently, James...
Wars ripped apart the social fabric of the Mekong basin in the 1960s and 1970s, bringing suffering...
Volcanoes are a double edged sword for the rice farmers of East Java. In many areas,...
The road to Albay from the Los Baños headquarters of the International Rice Research Institute (IRRI) is...
The logic of the Green Revolution—spurred by the introduction of modern high-yielding crops in the 1960s—was that...
You’ve been farming for 20 years. You do things as your father did them, and his father...
