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Fantastic Rice Yields Fact or Fallacy?
Fantastic Rice Yields Fact or Fallacy? Top Indian Rice Geneticist Rebuts SRI critics Does SRI work? Corporate Patents vs People in GM Rice Promises and Perils of GM Rice Two Rice Better Than One One Bird - Ten Thousand Treasures New Rice For Africa ISIS Press Release 02/07/04 Fantastic Rice Yields Fact or Fallacy? A low-input rice ...
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News archive - 2002
Methane Management Changsheng Li, with colleagues in China and US, has revealed how reductions in rice paddy methane have been achieved by changes in water use. More frequent draining helps ... GHG emissions. 20th August 2002 Rice Paper Research in the Phillipines has shown that methane emissions from rice paddies can be lowered by increasing rice yields. It seems that, where yields are low, more ...
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RIRDC Rice Research Program home page
ABARE estimate there are currently around 1,500 rice farm businesses. Rice yields averaged 8. ... reduce yields, as experienced during 2005. Domestic per capita rice consumption has increased from 2 kg per person in the late 1970s to 11kg per person in recent years. Rice consumption ...
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Index of Full Research Reports - Rice Research Reports
Browse the list of titles below or Search our sitewithWWW RIRDC Rice Diseases - Rice blast in Australia (08/095 CPB-2A) Full report - 270kb - PDF file needs ... Rice Yields and Water Use Efficiency 2004-2007 (08/005 DAN-236A) Full report - 250kb - PDF file needs Acrobat Reader - Summary is 12kb) Using Raised Beds on Rice Farms - sustainable cropping systems on rice ...
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Agriculture: Indonesia
Clearly, Indonesia's production-led approach to achieving food self sufficiency in rice was not sustainable. It has been stated that sustainable agricultural development occurs when "both ... Food and Agricultural Organization (FAO) reported that pesticide use had declined by 90%, while average rice yields had risen from 6.1 tons per hectare to 7.4 tons per hectare ( ...
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Genetic Engineering - Rice
Rice for Africa A new rice variety developed by plant breeders is boosting rice yields for farmers all over Africa Dr. Mae-Wan Ho 28th July 2004 Two Rice ... that combats rice disease and increases yields Lim Li Ching 12th July 2004 Promises & Perils of GM Rice Rice, the ... A Satyanarayana 5th July 2004 Fantastic Rice Yields Fact or Fallacy? A low-input rice cultivation system invented in Madagascar ...
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Sustainability works
As these transitions are recent (within the past ... already at least three- to five-fold greater than on rainfed lands. Here sustainable agriculture rice yields are slightly more than 10 per cent greater than in modern or pre-sustainable ...
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Getting off the pesticide treadmill
Rice yields rose by 13 per cent while pesticide use dropped ... rice and mung bean are broadcast simultaneously so that the mung bean becomes a mulch while the rice is established and the field is flooded.' Healthy yields ... hectare every season, while maintaining or increasing their yields. Yet Asian rice producers still use about 13 per cent ...
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CO2 Science
Future Rice Yields in India: What can we expect for various possible increases in air temperature and atmospheric ...
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FAQ - Can they Increase Yields?
FAQ Can China's farmers increase grain yields? Yes, quite a bit. It is estimated that current average grain yields of about 4.9 tons per hectare could ... grain yields would require improvements in agricultural management, better crop varieties, optimized input of agricultural chemicals, and the use of modern technology in cultivation, harvesting and harvest processing. The International Rice ...
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