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2025 HRDC Workshop Spotlights Hybrid Rice Innovations
Los Baños, Philippines — As climate change and rising food demand reshape agriculture, hybrid rice is emerging as a practical solution to boost productivity, improve resilience, and reduce resource use. To push these solutions forward, the Hybrid Rice Development...
Advancing Rice Research and Strengthening Industry Impact: HRDC’s Annual Meeting Set for April 2025
As agriculture encounters a range of evolving challenges, the Hybrid Rice Development Consortium (HRDC) is dedicated to enhancing hybrid rice research. By fostering genetic improvement, facilitating knowledge exchange, and developing climate-resilient rice varieties,...
Why Aren’t Farmers In South Asia Adopting Climate Smart Agriculture?
FORBES.COM | Andrew Wight Read the original article at forbes.com A researcher originally from Bangladesh has been looking at farms in South Asia to determine why agricultural practices aimed at reducing carbon emissions haven't been adopted. The agricultural sector...
IRRI scholar awarded best thesis for weed science
Kim Diane Nocito, an Affiliate BS Scholar in IRRI, recently won the Best Undergraduate Thesis for Weed Science given by the Weed Science Society of the Philippines during the 56th Pest Management Council of the Philippines Scientific Conference held last June in...
Short-duration variety sown on 50% paddy area in Punjab may give some respite from stubble fires
HINDUSTAN TIMES Close to half the paddy cultivation area in Punjab has been sown with a faster-maturing variety that leaves behind less stubble, potentially reducing pollution caused by farm fires in November. Typically, farmers use a variety that takes longer to...
Area under short-duration paddy variety PR-126 likely to go up
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Punjab promotes PAU rice variety to cut water usage and stubble burning
THE ECONOMIC TIMES CHANDIGARH: Punjab farmers are being urged to switch to the early-maturing varieties of paddy which need less water and leave lighter stubble in the fields after harvest. “We are promoting short-duration paddy varieties developed by Punjab...
Indian Scientists Search For A Safer, Greener Rice
An Indian researcher led a team that developed a rice variety that takes up less arsenic and they're now working on one that will generate less greenhouse gas emissions. According to the World Health Organization, an estimated 140 million people in over 70 countries...
Hybrid Rice Field Day revitalizes appreciation for breeding
The Hybrid Rice Technologies for Seed Industry (HRTSI) Cluster conducted a field day at IRRI Headquarters as part of the institute's continuous efforts to provide the latest advancements in hybrid rice breeding. The event, held 24 March, was attended by a total of...
IRRI scientist and HRDC head Jauhar Ali a key speaker and panelist at 2nd Indian Rice Congress
Dr. Jauhar Ali, lead scientist of the International Rice Research Institute (IRRI) and head of the Hybrid Rice Development Consortium (HRDC), will deliver a talk and take part in a high-level panel for the 2nd Indian Rice Congress, to be held this 11-14 February 2023...