Resources Tagged: Rice

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  1. Rice

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  2. A Farmer's Primer on Growing Rice

    1979-01-01 To improve the understanding of rice culture among farmers, technicians, teachers, and scientists, B.S.Vergara of the IRRI plant physiology department prepared this handbook. It should be useful to technicians and the farmers that they serve.
    Rice Rice Production

  3. Clonal Propagation: A Method of Seed Multiplication

    What will a farmer who would like to plant a certain rice cultivar for the coming season do when he or she only has a limited amount of seeds? Clonal propagation can be resorted to. Clonal propagation is a method of multiplying rice plants from a single grain, an aged seedling or a rice stubble....
    Rice

  4. SAWBO - Postharvest Loss: Paddy Drying Using a BAU-STR Dryer

    Properly drying paddy rice can avoid huge losses. When your rice is not dried properly, you can lose crop to mold, pests, and other issues. Paddy drying is difficult, especially during rainy and cloudy days. This is why it is best to use a dryer for your crop. The BAU-STR is an efficient batch...
    SAWBO Postharvest Post Harvest Techn... Drying Rice

  5. Rice-husk conversion to energy

    1978-01-01 The focal point of this study is the pressing need to utilize rice husk as an energy source, especially in the developing countries. It surveys the available processes and equipment for burning rice husk for energy production, mainly inside rice mills, combined, with high grade ash production and...
    Biomass Energy Rice Rice Hulls

  6. Preparation of Modified Mat Nurseries (MMN) for Improved Rice Seedling Production

    This article is from ECHO Asia Note #9 Editor: The System of Rice Intensification (SRI), an unconventional approach to rice production that has spread throughout many parts of the world since the late 1990s, is comprised of a set of flexible management practices. CEDAC, based in Cambodia,...
    SRI Reduced Water Rice... System of Rice Int... Rice Asia

  7. Lessons Learned from the Spread of SRI in Cambodia

    2009-07-01 This article is from ECHO Asia Note #2 In a 2001 ECHO Development Notes article, “SRI, the System of Rice Intensification: Less can be more,” ECHO first reported on SRI’s radical rice production steps including: Transplanting rice seedlings when the first two leaves have emerged, usually sometime...
    System of Rice Int... Rice Grain Crops Farming Systems Adoption of New Te... Asia

  8. The Amazing Effects of Rice Straw

    2010-01-01 This article is from ECHO Asia Note #4 Does rice straw have any value? Looking at the practices of most farmers, it seems not! The burning of rice straw is a common sight during the harvest period in many parts of Asia. Yet a number of farmers think otherwise. One of them is Isidro Prado from...
    Organic Mulch Rice Soil Fertility Soil Remediation Asia

  9. NERICA: The New Rice for Africa- a Compendium

    2008-01-01 This compendium brings together the results of scientific research on the NERICA varieities, ranging from the choice of land to planting, integrated crop and pest management, harvest and post-harvest operations, agro-processing technologies and NERICA nutritional quality, and adoption impact on...
    Rice Nerica rice

  10. Canary Rice

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