The International Year of Rice in the Philippines: Rice Is Life, Rice Is the Grain of Hope
For centuries, heirloom rice varieties have been grown on the terraces of the Cordillera Mountains of Luzon, Philippines, terroirs known for their significant historical, cultural, and aesthetic values. However, heritage heirloom rice farming is gradually being abandoned, mainly because of its lower ...
he sent seeds to the International Rice Research Institute in the Philippines.Then he travelled(12)___,all across Asia and to Africa and America,as well as inviting foreign students to the Hunan,Hybrid Rice Research Centre in Changsha to instruct them.A fifth of all rice grown globally now ...
Golden Rice has been genetically engineered to produce beta-carotene in the endosperm of the grain. It could improve the vitamin A status of deficient food consumers, especially women and children in the developing world. This paper analyses the potential impacts in a Philippine context. Since the...
Jilin province is one of the production base of Japanica rice in China. There were many problems, such as the bottleneck of breeding, the super-rice cultiv... L Hou,Y Yan,G Zhou,... 被引量: 2发表: 2015年 Rice–wheat system in the northwest Indo-Gangetic plains of South Asia: issue...
Scientists in the Philippines are working to make changes to rice, hoping to solve one of the world'sbiggest health issues: the lack of Vitamin A. It is called “golden rice" because the rice is yellow. It hasbeen genetically(基因上) changed to produce beta carotene, a form of VitaminA...
Scientists in the Philippines are working to make changes to rice.They hope these changes will helpsolve one of the world's biggest health problems:the lack of Vitamin A.It is called“golden rice”because the rice is yellow.It has been genetically(基因方面)changed,to produce beta carotene(胡...
Pre-emergence and post-emergence for upland and lowland direct-seeded rice [in the Philippines]. 来自 AGRIS 喜欢 0 阅读量: 13 作者:AJ Bueno,HC Cabanilla,LC Miranda 年份: 1975 收藏 引用 批量引用 报错 分享 全部来源 求助全文 AGRIS 相似文献...
This paper aims to unpack the decision-making processes of rice farmers when faced with drought. The study was conducted in two drought-prone rice-farming communities in the Philippines, with 87 rice farmers as the main participants. A range of qualitative methods including in-depth interviews, ...
Africa produces around 60% of the rice the continent consumes, relying heavily on rice imports to fulfill the rest of the domestic demand. Over the past 10 years, the rice-agricultural area increased nearly 40%, while average yield remained stagnant. Her