Sentences with phrase «rice production»

When we assumed office in 2015, some 6 million farmers were involved in rice production.

Global warming has a significant effect on rice production.

All this means that total methane emissions from rice production «will strongly increase,» as global demand for rice increases alongside rising human population.

This plan aims to boost rice production, slash pesticide misuse, and improve ecosystem health.

The integral process of crop rotation is the best defense in mitigating weed problems in organic rice production.

A temperature rise of only 3.5 degrees in the tropics could reduce rice production by more than 10 percent.

This will prove disastrous to our already volatile rice production.

Lately however, the push for a safer and healthier rice production has been growing in the province.

This helped the scientists identify nutrient management, pest control and rice varieties as the main needs to make organic rice production economically viable.

The weeds threaten rice production in at least 28 countries on the continent that have rain - fed rice systems.

That means a diet high in starchy ingredients that creates fast blood sugar spikes like white potato, white rice, corn meal (remember meal means concentrated — dehydrated product ground into powder), and brewers rice (a by - product of rice production for humans that lacks nutrients of the whole grain rice).

4 October 2017, Bangkok: UN Environment and the International Rice Research Institute today announced a new agreement to reinforce their long - standing collaboration to promote innovative environment - friendly technologies for rice production in developing countries.

«Over the next 10 to 20 years, during which GR2.0 will phase into GR3.0, we will seize opportunities for sustainable rice production in ways that will stagger our imagination,» he confidently forecasted.

IRRI's mission and purpose remain clear: to improve the quality of life of those who depend on the rice sector — from the ultra-poor to those moving up the development ladder — and the environmental sustainability of rice production systems.

The synergy of the partnership resulted in advances in developing disease - and insect - resistant varieties suited to various rice environments, developing and releasing hybrid rice varieties bred through government and private sector programs, streamlining rice production practices, and improving postharvest technologies for improved sustainability and productivity.

The federal government is currently exploring how to expand and enlarge rice production through an effective partnership with several rice - producing states from the North.

In 2010, 398 ex-combatant women were trained in a joint IRRI - CARE project in all aspects of rice production as part of a Farmer Field School.

«South Asia, an important beneficiary of IRRI's work, leads on global rice production, with India being the second largest rice producer and the first largest exporter in the world,» says Abdelbagi Ismail, who heads the Stress - Tolerant Rice for Africa and South Asia (STRASA) project.

«Rainfed agriculture sustains many farmers in the country and contributes about 26 % of the Philippines» total rice production.»

ALCSA's industry is a difficult one as rice production rises and falls depending on the weather.

From their initial areas of collaboration, Vietnam and IRRI are expanding their partnership to include rice production in the upland ecosystem, environmental issues, and grain quality.

IRRI has a long history of developing improved rice varieties for Asia, and in recent years has stepped up its support to help improve rice production in Africa with the development and release of rice varieties for Burundi, Mozambique, and now Tanzania.

This gave them access to rice production land, generate income, and develop new livelihoods for their families.

Faparusi lauded the feat achieved by Governor Atiku Bagudu of Kebbi State, saying such could have been easily achieved by Fayose if he had shifted attention to rice production where the state had immeasurable comparative advantage with its long standing «Igbemo rice».

Using satellite data, IRRI and its partners are developing real - time maps to accurately gauge the status of rice production at any given time.

Future crop improvement needs the genetic variation from traditional varieties and related wild species to cope with the many biotic and abiotic stresses that challenge rice production around the world.

After all, the International Rice Research Institute (IRRI) is based in the Philippines and has been working to help raise rice production worldwide for more than 50 years.

A strategic national target is to increase rice production by 200 kilograms per hectare every year.

The main objective of CORIGAP is to improve food security and gender equity, and alleviate poverty through optimizing productivity and sustainability of irrigated rice production systems.

Tanzanian farmers can now boost rice production with the release of two new high - yielding varieties.

The Temperate Rice Research Consortium (TRRC), established by the International Rice Research Institute (IRRI) in cooperation with the Rural Development Administration (RDA), Republic of Korea, is an appropriate forum to tackle the various constraints of temperate rice production.

JAKARTA, Indonesia — Experts gathering at the 5th Responsible Business Forum (RBF) on Food and Agriculture have stressed the need for multi-stakeholder collaboration to upscale the sharing of proven best practices in sustainable rice production among Asia's smallholder rice farmers.

«Anambra and Ebonyi states which are in the opposition had keyed into mass rice production scheme.

California rice accounts for ~ 1/5 of total US rice production, which means 99 % of the rice consumed around the world, is not from the arsenic - pesticide laced fields in Louisiana, Arkansas and Texas.

The worst drought in decades in Southeast Asia has cut flows in the Mekong so much that salt water is moving up the river, damaging rice production and affecting fishing communities.

The Delta State Governor, Dr. Ifeanyi Okowa, said in the last few years, a lot had been done on rice production which he said had reduced the amount of money hitherto spent on rice importation.

«IRRI has the unique capacity to bring together lead researchers from all over the world to create programs and develop rice production technologies that are communicated from the scientists down to the farmers,» he explained.

Hanoi — Vietnam's Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development (MARD) this week put its full weight behind a national strategy designed to make rice production an even larger engine of inclusive economic growth.

Up until 2014, 11 % of China's rice production came from Hunan, meaning that the now infamous «rice scandal» was a concern for consumers country wide, as well as a detriment to the livelihoods of Hunan's rice farmers.

Speaking at the opening ceremony, Dr. R.R.A. Wijekoon, Director General of Agriculture, Government of Sri Lanka, said «This will strengthen rice research development activities in the country especially to ensure food and nutrition security and sharing of global innovative technologies for the country's successful rice production.»

High - yielding rice varieties, fertilizers, and irrigation have contributed significantly to this yield increase and Indonesia's overall rice production, making the country the third - largest rice producer in the world.

In a discussion with rice farmers in Sukamandi District in Indonesia, they all said they wanted a new variety of rice resistant to the major rice pest, called brown planthopper, which devastated rice production in the region in 2009.

The new regional office will focus on developing and testing new rice varieties matched to the different rice production ecologies across Eastern and Southern Africa.

IRRI has a whole arsenal of rice production knowledge and interventions sharpened by more than five decades of research that includes climate - smart rice varieties, good crop management practices for specific conditions, postharvest practices that reduce losses from non-optimal storage, and many others shared with stakeholders across the rice value chain.