The production of rice – a grain that feeds half the world’s population - is to be bolstered with new DNA technology, in a breakthrough hailed by scientists as the next “green revolution".

When the green revolution began in the 1960s, it was before the revolution in molecular genetics: IR8, the first miracle rice, was bred without knowledge of the genes that blessed it with high yields.

As the global population grows, we’ll have to find ways of feeding the planet without accelerating climate change.

The new Green Revolution promises more food, less fertilizer, ... In field trials, the yields of the modified rice were 40 to 70 percent higher than those of the conventional varieties.

Green rice revolution reaps nationwide benefits. Copy link. 20/10/2024 23:32 (GMT+07:00) Prime Minister Phạm Minh Chính has said we must "breathe life into the rice plants," instilling new vitality in ...

Green rice revolution reaps nationwide benefits in Vietnam Vietnam Saturday, 19 Oct 2024 11:30 AM MYT Farmers harvesting the rice grown as part of the pilot project for high ...

NEW DELHI: The Green Revolution that brought self-sufficiency in food grains production to India has a troubling downside. High-yielding wheat and rice strains over the last 50 years have steadily ...

In the 1960s, Norman Borlaug, an American biologist, helped spark a period of transformative agricultural innovation known as the Green Revolution by selectively breeding a grain-packed, dwarf ...

Rice, often hailed as the “grain of life,” has nourished civilisations for thousands of years. Across Asia, nearly 90% of the population depends on it as a staple food, sustaining over two billion ...

Rapidly dwindling water table is putting Haryana farmers in a dilemma. The government is discouraging harvesting water-intensive crops as agriculture alone consumes 80 per cent of groundwater.