Forging partnerships with the private sector opens up opportunities to maximize our research-for-development impact. IRRI, through the Hybrid Rice Development Consortium (HRDC), facilitates a collaboration that would advance hybrid rice development and dissemination...

If half of the rice-growing areas in the world are replaced with hybrid rice varieties with a 2 t/ha yield advantage, it is estimated that total global rice production would increase by another 150 million tons annually. This could feed 400‒500 million more people...

In a move that accelerate impact and improve dissemination of high quality seeds to the Philippines rice farmers, IRRI and SL Agritech Corporation have entered into a six-year Limited-Exclusive Commercial License Agreement for two elite hybrids of the Hybrid Rice...

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The Department of Agriculture (DA) said rice self-sufficiency will be attained when the rate of adoption for hybrid seed hits 30% of the 4 million hectares of rice land, compared with the current rate of 10% (Read more).

Pakistan is all set to export the first ever consignment of 100 tons heat-tolerant rice seeds to the Philippines next month, a senior industry official said – a shipment that is long-awaited since the country begun experimenting hybrid technology over a decade...

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BRRI Hybrid-5, a hybrid rice variety developed by Bangladesh Rice Research Institute (BRRI), delivered a record yield of 10 tonnes per hectare (Read more).

Farmers in the Green Revolution regions show less interest in seed technology that has produced record-breaking yields in China (Read more).