CIRAD and the IRD are partners in GRiSP, the CGIAR rice research programme

Source: CIRAD newsletter19/11/2010 – The third International Rice Congress, co-organized by the International Rice Research Institute (IRRI) to mark its 50th anniversary, and the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development in Vietnam, was attended by more than 1700 participants (scientists, industrialists, managers and civil society representatives) in Hanoi (Vietnam), from 8 to 12 November. At a…

India – Rice output to rise 12%: FAO

Source: Business Standard19/11/2010 – India’s rice output is likely to rise 12.36 per cent this year, on favourable pattern of monsoon and higher acreage area, according to the United Nations’ Food and Agriculture Organisation’s (FAO’s) latest food review forecast released yesterday. The agency estimated India’s total milled rice output at 100 million tonnes (mt) this year,…

US – “Small is also beautiful”- Appropriate technologuy cuts rice farmers’water use by 30 percent in Punjab, India

Source: Blogs From the Earth Institute17/11/2010 – Since the 1960s, farmers in Punjab, India have practiced some of the most intensive broad scale grain production in the world. As a result, the state has earned the nickname “the food bowl of India” for its out sized role in adopting and implementing Green Revolution technologies that in…