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Stagnation of rice sector threatens stability of Asia

By Rudy A. Fernandez | May 11, 2004 - 12:00am

LOS BAÑOS, Laguna – Inadequate development in the rice sector continues to threaten the stability of Asia. Rice farming remains a "poverty trap" in many Asian nations, mainly because of very...

Business

Achieving Millennium Dev’t Goals begins with rice research

January 4, 2004 - 12:00am

The Millennium Development Goals spelled out by the United Nations 3 years ago hinge on policymakers recognizing the essential role rice plays in the lives and livelihoods of the most of the world’s poor. This...

Agriculture

Central Luzon farmers now using less insecticides

March 16, 2003 - 12:00am

Rice farmers in Central Luzon have been using less insecticides than those in other major rice-producing regions in Asia. Since the late 1980s, insecticide use by rice growers in the country’s "rice granary"...

Agriculture

Great strides needed to protect rice farming, says IRRI expert

By Radja Aga Jacinto | February 17, 2002 - 12:00am

Between 1961 and 1991 – a period of three decades – Asia’s developing nation’s population more than doubled from 1.6 billion to 3.4 billion. Improved rice varieties took care of billions of additional...

Agriculture