Correspondent (Spain) The International Rice Research Institute (IRRI), together with the International Fertilizer Association (IFA), organized Earth, Air, Fire, & Water: Elements for Sustainability at the United Nations Climate Change Conference, held last December 3, 2019 in Madrid, Spain. The session presented interventions categorized into the 4 “elements” that could contribute to
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Correspondent (Delhi) The International Rice Research Institute (IRRI) is collaborating with partners in the Healthy Crops Research Consortium to enable rapid development of rice varieties, in order to be a step ahead of the evolution of rice diseases that can heavily affect yield and smallholder farmer income. Two recent publications in the journal Nature
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Correspondent (Delhi) A global conference is calling for more investment in climate change initiatives for the world’s most important food crop. “Rice contributes about 1.5 percent of total greenhouse gas emissions, but doesn’t receive nearly as much of global climate investment,” said Dr. Bjoern Ole Sander, Vietnam Representative of the International Rice
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Correspondent : JFE Steel Corporation has joined the Direct Seeded Rice Consortium (DSRC), led by the International Rice Research Institute (IRRI), in March 2019, in order to test the performance of coating rice seeds with iron powder in flooded paddies in the Philippines. Through this partnership, JFE Steel aims to
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Correspondent (Los Baños, Laguna, Philippines) The International Rice Research Institute (IRRI) and the Tao Commodity Trader, Inc. (TCTI) – a subsidiary of Tao Corporation (http://www.taocommunity.com/home), one of the Philippines’ Top 500 diversified business groups – have signed a seven-year Limited Exclusivity Commercial License Agreement to promote the commercialization and nationwide distribution
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Correspondent (Philippines) The Asian Development Bank (ADB) and the International Rice Research Institute (IRRI), in partnership with the national research and extension systems (NARES) of Bangladesh, Nepal and Cambodia convened consultative workshops in the three countries aimed at proposing policy recommendations to promote widespread adoption of research-proven climate-smart practices and varieties
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संवाद (दिल्ली ) देहरदून पुलिस ने यात्रियों के लिए एडवाइजरी जारी की है। मेरठ, दिल्ली और एनसीआर से बदरीनाथ और केदानाथ धाम की यात्रा पर जाने वाले यात्रियों के लिए मुजफ्फरनगर-मीरपुर-बिजनौर होते हुए कोटद्वार से श्रीनगर मार्ग होते हुए जाना सही निर्णय होगा। इन्हीं यात्रियों को अगर यमुनोत्री और गंगोत्री
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Correspondent (Los Banos, Laguna) The International Rice Research Institute (IRRI), together with the Indian Embassy in the Philippines, celebrated Mahatma Gandhi’s 150th birth anniversary with a tree-planting ceremony. “For six decades, IRRI and India have been strong partners in improving the rice sector of the country,” said by H. E. Jaideep Mazumdar,
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Turkey on Two feet as my subject reads is indicating to -The Carian Trail, which is Turkey's largest Coastal Hiking Trail. Recently, Seema Bhide (age: 53 years) along with two other fellow woman hikers took this experience and they would like to share the same with you highlights from their experience
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Correspondent (Delhi) The International Rice Research Institute’s South Asia Regional Centre (IRRI SARC) organized a regional symposium on ‘Transforming Rice Grain Quality and Nutrition in South Asia’, inviting private sector representatives from the seed industry, milling, crop protection, agri digital and genomic services, traders, and the FMCG sector. The day-long event
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