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At Time of Food Crisis, New Rice Varieties Boost Africa’s Rice Production
Crisis, New Rice Varieties Boost Africa’s Rice Production As African governments and tens of millions of poor African consumers faced a dangerous rice crisis in 2007, new rice varieties adapted to ... Rice Center report. The gains from the new rice varieties came against a worrisome backdrop of rapidly increasing consumption of rice in Africa, which imports 40 percent of its rice. Africa Rice Trends ...
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Methane - Rice
However, through a more integrated approach to rice paddy irrigation and fertilizer application substantial reductions remain possible. Many rice varieties ...
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Seed sovereignty
We have also conserved 31 varieties of wheat and ...
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Multinational corporations have already taken out patents on basmati and other rice varieties, corn, cotton, mustard, and other agricultural crops. Corporations like W.R. Grace ... like Monsanto are unleashing genetically-engineered seeds like Terminator, Bt Cotton, genetically engineered rice varieties, which could totally wipe out crop diversity, destroy beneficial species, create super ...
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Plants For A Future - Link
(UK species); Somerset variety orchard; and a large collection of willow species/varieties. Country UK (England) Region Somerset Sections: Charities, Research, Run Courses, Rate Tag ... Edit Rice Varieties in india A marketplace of rice with in dept information about cultivation of basmati rice, gayatri rice, ratnagiri-1 rice, heera rice, vivek dhan-62 rice and other varities of rice ...
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RIRDC Rice Research Program home page
Industry related links: Rice Growers Association of Australia Cooperative Research Centre for Sustainable Rice Production Key Program Strategies Provide varieties that result in increased ... farmers Continued development towards new rice varieties with improved yield and quality attributes and water use productivity More uniform crop establishment Improved rice water use performance ...
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Environmental Commons: State Boards Ban Planting of Genetically Modified Rice
Rice In the wake of the August 2006 contamination of the US rice supply by an unapproved variety of genetically modified rice, State Boards vote to ban the growing of genetically modified rice varieties ...
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Genetic Engineering - Rice
GM Rice Dr. Mae-Wan Ho and Lim Li Ching get to the bottom of current attempts by corporations to usurp rice varieties through genetic modification Dr. Mae-Wan Ho and Lim Li Ching 8th July 2004 Top Indian Rice Geneticist Rebuts SRI ... Dr. Mae-Wan Ho 2nd July 2004 Cancer Promoting Transgenic Rice Transgenic rice containing human insulin-like growth factor, known to promote ...
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Less is more for Nepali rice
Less is More for Nepali Rice A low input rice system has more than doubled yield in ... marvellous yields in many countries.(see “Fantastic rice yields: Fact or fallacy?”, “Top Indian rice geneticist rebuts SRI critics”’, and “Does ... rice varieties, that have caused the loss of over 100,000 local varieties, and that rely heavily on chemical inputs and frequent irrigation.  Indigenous varieties ...
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rice | Greenpeace UK
A precursors. However, very few studies have been conducted so far on whether such natural pro-vitamin rich rice varieties ... search for rice varieties with naturally high vitamin A content. (4) Greenpeace briefing paper "Vitamin A: Natural Sources vs Golden Rice" and "The false promise of GM rice" Further information: Contact ...
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