It will help accelerate the pace of developing improved rice varieties around the globe to feed a growing population, estimated to reach more than 9.6 billion by 2050, with half of humanity relying on
rice for sustenance and livelihood.
Not exact matches
«It is important that new and improved
rice varieties also possess superior grain quality that add value through meeting domestic and export market expectations to further improve the lives of farmers who rely on
rice for their livelihood and
sustenance,» he added.
Agronomists went on to breed «semi-dwarf»
rice plants using the same principles, fundamentally altering a crop that half the world relied on
for daily
sustenance.
Serve with brown
rice for extra
sustenance.