Sentences with phrase «liaoning rice research»

FSANZ Chief Executive Officer, Mark Booth, said the International Rice Research Institute, a humanitarian organisation, applied to include the rice, often referred to as golden rice, in the Food Standards Code.

IRRI, or the International Rice Research Institute, is a nonprofit independent research and training organization.

Golden Rice, which is being developed by the International Rice Research Institute (IRRI), will supposedly address Vitamin A Deficiency (VAD) in developing countries such as the Philippines.

Its proponents, Philippine Rice Research Institute (PhilRice) and International Rice Research Institute (IRRI), have applied a permit under Direct Use, wherein target populations will be fed with Golden Rice to test if the genetically modified rice is effective in providing Vitamin A to humans.

After the intense opposition from various farmers and consumers groups, including the uprooting of the clandestine field trial in Camarines Sur, the International Rice Research Institute (IRRI) postponed the commercialization, citing the failure of Golden Rice to produce better yields.

Philippine Rice Research Institute (PhilRice) is a government corporate entity attached to the Department of Agriculture created through Executive Order 1061 on 5 November 1985 (as amended) to help develop high - yielding and c...

The International Rice Research Institute (IRRI) and PhilRice are pushing for the adoption of the said crop.

As a plant pathologist with USDA's Agricultural Research Service (ARS) Rice Research Unit in Beaumont, Texas, Toni Marchetti oversaw a new program in 1972 to develop new cultivars that better resisted costly diseases like rice blast.

September is National Rice Month, and the Agricultural Research Service's (ARS) Dale Bumpers National Rice Research Center in Stuttgart, Arkansas, is well positioned — literally and figuratively — to support the production, harvest, and public enjoyment of this versatile and nutritious grain.

But this was belied by Zenaida Soriano, APC Southeast Asia coordinator, saying that the Aquino government approved the field testing of International Rice Research Institute (IRRI) and Syngenta's Golden Rice.

The International Rice Research Institute (Lao - IRRI Project) and the Lao National Rice Research Program have been collaborating on rice research since 1991.

The STRASA project works closely with the agricultural and rice research centers of South Asia and Africa to further deepen and then disseminate, in as participatory a manner as possible, the results of scientific research spearheaded by the IRRI.

To support this, a reinvigorated Indonesia rice research work plan was drafted this week by senior officials and leading scientists from the Indonesian Agency for Agricultural Research and Development (IAARD) and the Philippines - based International Rice Research Institute (IRRI).

The office will be based in the Rice Research and Development Institute (RRDI) at Batalagoda, Sri Lanka.

«Our Golden Rice research is part of our humanitarian work to reduce vitamin A deficiency that mostly affects women and children — causing sickness, blindness, and even death,» Tolentino said.

For the last 25 years, I have worked on various aspects of rice research in India.

By serendipity, the scientific work by the International Rice Research Institute (IRRI) is building bridges across difficult political borders to help achieve shared goals in food security and poverty alleviation.

Later in the day, Dr. Bruce Tolentino, IRRI's deputy director general for communications and partnership, followed up with a video message: Golden Rice research continues

With the global population rising continuously, urbanization rapidly reducing land for farming, and climate change threatening stable crop production, a significant improvement in genetic yield potential is one of the most crucial goals in rice research.

The Department of Agriculture — Regional Field Unit 5 (DA - RFU 5) together with the DA - Philippine Rice Research Institute (PhilRice) have completed two seasons of multi-location field trials of Golden Rice in Camarines Sur - a province in the Philippines.

From the perspective of the International Rice Research Institute this will present a major new challenge to how we organize our breeding programs, the nature of the products we produce, and perhaps most importantly, how we relate to our partners.

These field trials form part of the Golden Rice project that the International Rice Research Institute (IRRI) is working on together with other leading nutrition and agricultural research organizations to develop and evaluate Golden Rice as a potential new way to reduce vitamin A deficiency in the Philippines.

It will provide support to the country's rice self - sufficiency program, offer a platform for collaborative research between IRRI and Indonesia's rice research programs, and build national rice research capacity.

In September, the Australian Centre for International Agricultural Research (ACIAR) released a report looking at the impact and value of rice breeding work of the International Rice Research Institute (IRRI) between 1985 and 2009 in three key rice - growing countries: Indonesia, the Philippines, and Vietnam.

For better or worse, Pete was my mentor as I began my career in rice research in 1985.

In 1990, the International Rice Research Institute held an international workshop simply called «Rats in Rice,» which assembled rodent experts from around the globe.

The Council for Partnerships on Rice Research in Asia (CORRA) was established in 1996 with the vision to enhance the effectiveness of the various partnership mechanisms between IRRI and its partners to meet the challenges of the global rice research system.

«This will make saline - stricken rice farms in coastal areas usable to farmers,» said lead scientist Dr. Kshirod Jena of the International Rice Research Institute (IRRI).

The Philippine Rice Research Institute, in partnership with the International Rice Research Institute and other partners, have recently finished two seasons of field trials in the Philippines, but this doesn't mean that Golden Rice is now ready for planting by farmers.

The International Rice Research Institute (IRRI) and its partners are working together to develop Golden Rice as a potential new food - based approach to improve the vitamin A status of people at risk, especially children and women who are most vulnerable as they have extra need for micronutrients.

The Temperate Rice Research Consortium (TRRC) recognized the need for a «consortium approach» to solve issues on temperate rice improvement including both biotic and abiotic stresses, yield potential, grain quality and nutrition, and water and nutrient management.

Launched in 2010, GRiSP represents for the first time a single strategic work plan for global rice research, bringing together hundreds of scientists from across the world.

I can not speak for what happened with the Golden Rice research in China, as IRRI and our partners working with us on Golden Rice were not involved.

Dr. Bruce Tolentino makes a statement that Golden Rice research to improve nutrition will continue despite field trial vandalism.

Scidev.net did a report on the development of C4 rice — the only other GM rice type being studied by IRRI outside of the Institute's healthier rice research.

«During the past four decades, significant progress in rice research has taken place, where IRRI played a great role not only in supporting the development of new varieties but also by advancing knowledge.»

Led by the International Rice Research Institute (IRRI), the project seeks to create «C4 rice» — rice with a built - in fuel injector to better convert sunlight into grain, potentially resulting in up to 50 % higher production all while using less water and nutrients.

When you visit IRRI, you will be entering a fully - realized community of scientists working together to alleviate poverty through rice research.

The report looked at a selection of natural resource management technologies rolled out by the International Rice Research Institute (IRRI) as part of the Irrigated Rice Research Consortium (IRRC) mandate in Bangladesh, Indonesia, Vietnam, and the Philippines.

Despite vandalism in one of the five multilocation field trials in August this year, data are being readied for submission to government regulators who will review Golden Rice against international standards for biosafety, according to Antonio Alfonso, coordinator of the biotechnology program of the Philippine Department of Agriculture (DA) and leader of the Golden Rice project at the DA - Philippine Rice Research Institute (DA - PhilRice).

The International Network for Quality Rice (INQR) consists of members who work on rice research, quality evaluation in rice improvement programs, and private sector equipment manufacturers.

We have been working with Indonesia since 1971 through our collaboration with IAARD and the various centers within its portfolio such as the Indonesian Center for Rice Research.

He tirelessly advocates the work of IRRI across the world to foster wider awareness of the issues facing rice farmers and consumers in the developing world and to garner support for rice research.

His dedication to the gigantic effort for keeping hunger and poverty in Asia at bay is reflected in his work in founding the International Rice Research Institute (IRRI) and the Asian Vegetable Research and Development Center (AVRDC).

M.S. Swaminathan, IRRI's fourth director general, noted in a frontispiece to the Chandler book An Adventure in Applied Science: A History of the International Rice Research Institute that Chandler was «obviously modest when referring to his own contributions.

Our conversation led to running up hills, and how you have to run up at a lot of hills to get anywhere... a bit like rice research.

This new funding will enable the International Rice Research Institute to begin producing prototypes of this «super rice» for testing.

Dr. Robert «Bob» Zeigler was the director general of the International Rice Research Institute from 2005 to 2015 and is the institute's first Director General Emeritus.

If you care to look closer, you can see the Golden Rice field trial approvals: Golden Rice is on page 5 and 6 under the Philippine Rice Research Institute.

The Bangladesh Rice Research Institute (BRRI) and the Philippine Rice Research Institute (PhilRice) have been working with IRRI on Golden Rice for several years.