Sentences with phrase «good rice yields»

He started studying Bali's subaks three decades ago to learn how they consistently produced good rice yields without modern inputs like pesticides.

Not exact matches

Millet flour can be substituted one for one with wheat flour, although mixing it with rice flour or coconut flour will probably yield best results.

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.

Our key target is to produce hybrid rice with consistently high - yield heterosis (hybrid vigor), good grain quality, tolerance to key environmental stresses, multiple resistances to insect pests and diseases, and high seed production yield.

The Business Mirror also ran a story linking yield loss with climate change and how IRRI could help by developing better rice strains.

«With the successful introgression of a functional epigenetic allele into elite indica rice genomes, we are redefining best practices in applying genomics tools to increase the yield potential of rice.»

We want to be sure that Golden Rice grows just as well as the original, so farmers won't have to give up yield, or pest resistance, or other attributes in order to help those most in need of a healthy and filling meal.

In 1985, Vietnam achieved self - sufficiency in rice and then went on to continue to increase its production due to supportive government policies, and its adoption of better crop management strategies and new high - yielding rice varieties.

White basmati or long - grain rice will yield the best results, but if you don't have either on hand, quinoa is a good substitute.

We conduct research and training to improve rice for better grain quality and higher yield, resistance to pests and diseases, tolerance of environmental stresses, and less farm input requirement.

Hey Jessica, is it possible to substitute the brown rice flour for another kind of flour and still yield good results?

As a result, IRRI has recently released submergence - tolerant rice — non-GM rice that can tolerate and produce good yields after two weeks under water, conditions that would decimate most other rice.

The objective of this collaboration with ACI is to facilitate higher rice yields, better quality, climate - change — tolerant varieties, and improved sustainability of rice production in Bangladesh.»

«It is our vision for Burundi to become a leading regional hub for excellent, high yielding, rice varieties that also have good grain quality.»

The continuous growth in agriculture and rice had been mainly possible because of scientific research and innovation, development of new rice varieties (high - yielding, short duration, stress - tolerant rice) and better farm management (with seeds from high - yielding varieties, irrigation, fertilizer, and pest management), which is supported by the country's Ministry of Agriculture, the Bangladesh Agricultural Research Institute, Bangladesh Agricultural Research Council, Bangladesh Rice Research Institute, IRRI - Bangladesh Office, and othrice had been mainly possible because of scientific research and innovation, development of new rice varieties (high - yielding, short duration, stress - tolerant rice) and better farm management (with seeds from high - yielding varieties, irrigation, fertilizer, and pest management), which is supported by the country's Ministry of Agriculture, the Bangladesh Agricultural Research Institute, Bangladesh Agricultural Research Council, Bangladesh Rice Research Institute, IRRI - Bangladesh Office, and othrice varieties (high - yielding, short duration, stress - tolerant rice) and better farm management (with seeds from high - yielding varieties, irrigation, fertilizer, and pest management), which is supported by the country's Ministry of Agriculture, the Bangladesh Agricultural Research Institute, Bangladesh Agricultural Research Council, Bangladesh Rice Research Institute, IRRI - Bangladesh Office, and othrice) and better farm management (with seeds from high - yielding varieties, irrigation, fertilizer, and pest management), which is supported by the country's Ministry of Agriculture, the Bangladesh Agricultural Research Institute, Bangladesh Agricultural Research Council, Bangladesh Rice Research Institute, IRRI - Bangladesh Office, and othRice Research Institute, IRRI - Bangladesh Office, and others.

Our research into hybrid rice now focuses on producing hybrid rice with consistently high - yield heterosis (hybrid vigor), good grain quality, tolerance to key environmental stresses, multiple resistances to insect pests and diseases, and high seed production yield.

«While IRRI has historically helped India to meet its overall food security needs through the green revolution high - yielding rice varieties such as IR8, the challenge now is to deliver increased livelihoods for farmers through increasing the value of rice, and increasing the well - being of farmers and consumers through enhanced nutrition outcomes.

The Resilient Rice Field Laboratory forms part of a three - prong approach to developing new, high - yielding, stress - tolerant rice varieties that are well - suited and well - adopted by farmers across the regRice Field Laboratory forms part of a three - prong approach to developing new, high - yielding, stress - tolerant rice varieties that are well - suited and well - adopted by farmers across the regrice varieties that are well - suited and well - adopted by farmers across the region.

Working with in - country partners, IRRI develops advanced rice varieties that yield more grain and better withstand pests and disease as well as flooding, drought, and other harmful effects of climate change.

PLANT breeders have developed a variety of rice that has the potential to yield a staggering 25 per cent more than today's best, the International Rice Research Institute (IRRI) announced this wrice that has the potential to yield a staggering 25 per cent more than today's best, the International Rice Research Institute (IRRI) announced this wRice Research Institute (IRRI) announced this week.

For example, the BR biosynthesis gene, Dwarf4 (Dwf4), had opposite effects on yield in rice when driven by different promoters (Reuzeau et al., 2006; Wu et al., 2008) and the interaction of BR and GA mutants was developmentally context - dependent in maize (Best et al., 2016).

Chinese and IRRI partners are studying changes in rice yield and nitrogen - and water - use efficiencies, as well as the environmental effects of different water - use practices.

While yields are generally high in these areas, the rice types must be further improved for yield potential and resistance to insects and diseases as well as for environmental stress tolerance, especially cold.

We seek to have a better understanding of the genetic basis and physiological mechanisms of yield potential, from which we develop elite inbred rice lines with about 10 % higher yield potential and possess other important traits.

Rice yields in Japan, among the highest in Asia, are well below those in California.