According to recent estimates by the United Nations, the world population will reach 7 billion in October...
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World population is projected to reach 7 billion by the end of this month (October 2011). Unfortunately,...
On average, each person in the world consumes more than 50 kilograms of rice a year (see...
One would imagine that an event called the International Rice Festival would be held somewhere in Asia....
Dr. Vial came to the Philippines to head IRRI’s Experiment Station in early 2011, after a 15-year...
Southeast Asian rice farmers are harvesting an extra US$1.46 billion worth of rice a year as a...
Iron deficiency and iron deficiency anemia cause a range of health problems in humans, including increased chances...
Remote sensing and spatial modeling have evolved significantly in recent decades.Tools are already available that can be...
Different people can look at the same grain of rice and see different things. Rice, to farmers,...
The global rice market has been in a subdued state since 2010 (Fig. 1), during which time...
