Harvested Duborskian rice is displayed in Southern Tasmania, Australia on March 8, 2025. (Linda Cockburn via AP) In the ...

Since the mid-1800s, human activities have rapidly facilitated the spread of rice yellow mottle virus (RYMV), a pathogen that ...

Agro Policy Alert: Desi seed producers and activists demand withdrawal of gene-edited rice seeds, citing biosafety risks and threat to seed sovereignty.

The Korea-funded Official Development Assistance (ODA) project titled “Improving the Rice Supply Chain to Ensure Quality of ...

“That seed production is for farmers to test this material in their fi elds to see how it performs and if it performs, to begin to scale those operations,” IRRI Director General Yvonne Pinto told ...

Jaso is one of the 450 farmers in New Bataan, who received one bag of hybrid rice seeds per hectare of rice fields since the DA XI, in partnership with the local government unit of New Bataan, ...

T&T once had 6,000 rice farmers in the 90s, but payment delays, climate change, rising fertiliser prices, high cost of production, low yields, unavailability of seeds, and lack of political will ...

Grist reports that climate change is loading rice—the beloved grain that feeds more than half of the world's population—with ...

Researchers say they can improve rice harvests and grain quality by essentially turning off a temperature-sensitive gene found in some common rice varieties.

Among the newly developed varieties, BRRI dhan112 is a salt-tolerant transplanted Aman variety with a medium growth duration. Depending on salinity levels, it can yield between 4.14 and 6.12 tonnes ...

A more secure backup lies at the Mekong Delta Rice Research Institute (MDRRI), also in Cần Thơ, where hundreds of pots of wild rice are maintained alongside a small seed bank. The institute stores 600 ...