Variety-based climate-smart intervention helps smallholder farmers cope with floods in the lowlands of Odisha Variety-based climate-smart intervention helps smallholder farmers cope with floods in the lowlands of Odisha September 5, 2023 by Mosharaf Hossain, Swati Nayak, Girija Swain, Pavan Yeggina, and Mukund Variar Natural calamities, primarily floods, of...Read More
Shalabh Dixit: The link between rice genes and rice farmers Shalabh Dixit: The link between rice genes and rice farmers September 26, 2016 A quantitative trait locus, or QTL, is an incredibly small section of the DNA that, in the...Read More
Combating floods and droughts in Lao PDR with climate-smart rice Combating floods and droughts in Lao PDR with climate-smart rice July 13, 2016 CURE and its partners, led by Lao’s Agriculture Research Center, show farmers how to grow flood- and...Read More
Finding flood-prone rice areas in West Africa Finding flood-prone rice areas in West Africa March 2, 2016 Rice, cultivated in the flood plains along the Niger River and its tributaries in Nigeria’s northern states,...Read More
Holding back flood, sweat, and tears Holding back flood, sweat, and tears February 22, 2016 Read More
A scientist’s primer to Benito Vergara National Scientist A scientist’s primer to Benito Vergara National Scientist July 24, 2015 In 2001 Dr. Vergara was conferred the title National Scientist for his achievements in rice physiology, and...Read More
Union agriculture minister urges Indian farmers to grow flood-tolerant rice Union agriculture minister urges Indian farmers to grow flood-tolerant rice April 16, 2015 Bihar, India - Union Minister of Agriculture Shri Radha Mohan Singh...Read More
India: Swarna-Sub1 hailed as a major innovation with great potential for helping rice farmers in flood-prone areas India: Swarna-Sub1 hailed as a major innovation with great potential for helping rice farmers in flood-prone areas April 15, 2015 Shri Radha Mohan Singh, the Indian Union Agriculture Minister, declared the...Read More
Indian farmer kick-starts two green revolutions Indian farmer kick-starts two green revolutions April 1, 2015 A while back, I read an interesting story extolling the merits of the new flood-tolerant rice, Swarna-Sub1,...Read More
Ten million farmers have access to climate-smart rice Ten million farmers have access to climate-smart rice May 20, 2014 New Delhi – About 10 million of the poorest and most disadvantaged rice farmers have been given...Read More