USA – Water cuts threaten rice field bird habitat
Waiting in the wings are an estimated 4 million to 6 million migratory birds that winter in the Central Valley each year.
Secret unlocked to underwater rice seed survival
A team of scientists from the International Rice Research Institute (IRRI) and the University of California Riverside recently published a study in Nature Plants unlocking the secret to how rice seeds can survive under water.
India – Here’s how rice can light up homes
As the world’s seventh largest country and one of its leading growing economies, India faces major challenges when it comes to meeting the energy needs of more than one billion people.
USA – How researchers are trying to grow an unusual urban crop: Rice
Instead of growing rice in the familiar paddies, they are conducting a three-year study in growing it just as you’d raise wheat or eggplant or apples: that is, on dry land.
USA – Rice finds a welcome home in Wisconsin paddies
With drought conditions in California and the uncertain impacts of climate change, scientist Michael Schläppi has been trying to grow the water-intensive crop in a Wisconsin lab and field.
Nitrogen use efficient rice demonstrates an average yield increase of per
Major Yield Increase Has the Potential to Change the Economics of Rice Production and Enhance Food Security
Edward Pulver: Searching for the heart of yield
Dr. Pulver is a scientist with a global mission: improve farmers’ lives by raising crop yields. His accomplishments range from increasing Peru’s national rice production, to developing a system for evaluating rice resistance to blast in Colombia. From reducing yield gaps in the irrigated rice production of Venezuela and Brazil, to improving agricultural productivity in Nicaragua and Mexico.
Rice cutgrass boosts nitrate removal in drainage ditches
Removal of excess nitrogen in agricultural runoff can be enhanced by constructing vegetated wetlands; however, this practice is expensive and often cost prohibitive.
India – Delayed planting, poor rain may hurt rice yield
Delayed planting and poor rainfall distribution can play a spoiler in production of rice for 2015-16 even if acreage in Kharif, the main season for the cereal, continues to edge up than last year with 86 per cent of sowing completed.
Bangladesh – Bangladesh releases new, improved zinc rice variety
The variety, developed with support from HarvestPlus, has higher zinc content and is higher yielding than two previously released varieties.