AGRONOMY AND Water Harvesting
On October 10, a delegation from the engineering division of the Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries of Trinidad and Tobago visited the facilities of the International Center for Tropical Agriculture (CIAT). Santiago Jaramillo participated on behalf of FLAR with a technical talk on the transformation of rainfed to irrigation through water harvesting, as a practical…
The work just begin and new challenges are emerging in the FLAR’s impact horizon for the Southern Cone.
Next 28 November marks 50 years since the release of the variety that allowed for a leap in rice production in Asia and set a milestone for what would be the beginning of the Green Revolution around the world: variety IR8. In 1960 the International Rice Research Institute (IRRI), led by Robert Chandler…
The Regional Fund for Agricultural Technology (FONTAGRO, its Spanish acronym) announced on 14 March that the case “Transforming Rain-fed to Irrigation Agriculture through Rainwater Harvesting in Nicaragua and Mexico,” submitted by the Latin American Fund for Irrigated Rice (FLAR) and the International Center for Tropical Agriculture (CIAT), was among the winners of the contest for innovative cases of family…
In the framework of the exchange activities of the “Development and adoption of a low input rice production system through genetic breeding and advanced crop management technologies” project, better known as SATREPS, where the Colombian and Japanese governments are collaborating, Dr. Tadashi Chosa, presented his work on a yield monitoring system used during…
Farmers given radical advice following a drought warning by scientists using a computer data tool that reaped a UN reward.
