A new breed of agricultural extension and development officers recently completed a 5-month capacity-building course called "Enabling the AgRiDOC: a new breed of rice extensionists" and are now ready to serve rice-based farming communities in the country.

“Who will suffer most from climate change?” Bill Gates poses this question in his latest blog post and what the Gates Foundation and its partners are doing to help.

The Philippines, through the Department of Agriculture, is among IRRI's top 10 donors and Filipino rice farmers some of the fastest adopters of new varieties and technologies.

PhD scholarships in fields allied with the rice sciences are now available for South and Southeast Asian students. Grantees will work with some of the world’s leading agricultural scientists committed to reducing poverty via food security in the rice-consuming and -producing world.

"One thing is clear about climate change—we need to be ready for it," said Undersecretary Fred Serrano of the Philippine Department of Agriculture (DA).

AWD is easy to learn and makes use of inexpensive tools to gauge water level to know whether it is time to flood or drain the field.

The open-access, open-data journal GigaScience (published by BGI and Biomed Central), announces today (28 May) the publication of an article on the genome sequencing of 3000 rice strains along with the release of this entire dataset in a citable format in journal’s affiliated open-access database, GigaDB

“No farmer must be left behind” was the challenge addressed to 1,500 scientists and delegates, hailing from 69 countries, who are here in Bangkok to attend the 4th International Rice Congress (IRC2014).

The 3,000 Rice Genomes Project (3K RGP) is a collaborative, international research program that has sequenced 3,024 rice varieties from 89 countries.