Over 200 articles on rice crop management (rice agronomy) and rice crop improvement (plant breeding, including rice biotechnology) were received from rice scientists and researchers worldwide. Two papers, one from China and one from Japan, won the award

My father grows rice.

Paddy and cereals

(e) In the Near East, the development of hybrid rice and water efficient rice integrated crop management systems.

IRRI International Rice Research Institute

Rice is grown in rainy regions.

(b) In Asia and the Pacific, the development of hybrid rice, rice biotechnology and rice integrated crop management systems as well as the diversification of the mono rice systems

This is called mud wrestling in the rice fields.

In addition, 330 on farm demonstrations on improved rice production techniques were carried out by the Egyptian Rice Programme in rice producing areas of the country.

In recognition of the challenges of global rice production, FAO and the International Rice Research Institute (IRRI) joined forces in 1999 to focus international attention on the rice industry and its role in achieving global food security.

These young ladies are living in a rice culture, but they know something that few people know in a rice culture.

(b) Global Scientific Contest The International Year of Rice Global Scientific Contest was coordinated with the invaluable support of IRRI.

The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) is operating in 14 counties and has distributed seed rice and agricultural tools to 13,000 farmers to increase rice production.

The effluent from the fishponds is also used, mostly in paddy fields which are dotted around the outer reaches of the marshes.

The Liberian National Committee organized the International Year of Rice poetry contest, and in Burkina Faso, the International Year of Rice celebration took place in Bama in the rice growing province Houet.

(g) THAI 1 rice monitoring using ERS l data in Thailand

This implied that the bulk of the paddy lands in the country were owned by cultivators.

The Asian Development Bank, in collaboration with its member countries and IRRI, celebrated the Year in November at its headquarters, with the participation of policymakers in the region.

In Malaysia, farmers' associations celebrated the Year with the launching of the 10 Tonne Club for rice farmers, while the Myanmar International Year of Rice Committee published three books Varieties of Rice, Rice Culture and Rice Research Activities.

In that country, the ratio between incomes and costs of aquaculture in ponds was almost 33 per cent higher than that of a double crop system combining aquaculture and rice cultivation.

Sometimes in rice we found incredible increases in yield when you mix different varieties of rice side by side.

The ceiling was 25 acres of paddy land or 50 acres of other agricultural land.

AMSTERDAM In the Mekong Delta, farmers obtain 6 7 tons of rice per hectare in dry seasons and 4 5 tons per hectare in wet seasons, using fast maturing rice varieties that allow up to three consecutive yields annually. By contrast, West African rice farmers harvest only 1.5 tons per hectare of traditional upland rice annually, while other cereals yield no more than one ton a figure comparable to yields in medieval Europe.

阿姆斯特丹 在湄公河三角洲 农民在旱季能收获6 7吨的水稻公顷产量 雨季则为4 5吨 使用快速成熟稻种 每年可以收获三季 相反 西非稻农种植传统旱稻每年只能收获1.5吨的公顷产量 其他谷类产量更是不到一吨 与欧洲中世纪产量水平相当

National and international trade and book fairs were used as grounds for promoting rice marketing and nutrition, stimulating interest in various rice technologies, disseminating information to the general public and increasing awareness of the role and importance of rice as a staple food.

Production of paddy rice, the main staple crop, has increased by 20 per cent over the past two years but has reached only 50 per cent of the pre war level.

The rice growing area was irrigated, flat, homogeneously managed, and had large individual fields, of at least 1 hectare each.

(d) Multi temporal ERS 1 SAR data are highly suitable for rice crop monitoring

Rice

The Rice Cultivators' Association of Uruguay published a special issue on El Arroz en el Mundo to commemorate the Year.

Furthermore, the land and water resources for rice production are diminishing, while the population is still growing steadily.

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D. Rice monitoring in Thailand using synthetic aperture radar data from the European Remote Sensing Satellite

Rice Is Life was selected as the theme for the Year.

Splendid scarecrows!

They're part of the rice cycle and these skills will be valuable for them in their future.

This man was your wartime buddy, an ordinary rice farmer who helped you blow up bridges.

Poor old gal's stuffed with straw, just like our scarecrows back home.

NERICA is a new rice type developed for WARDA especially for low input rice production in Africa.

(9) South South Cooperation for Contributing to Sustainable Development of Rice Production in Small Scale Extension Productive Systems

These facilities are available in various sectors of activity, and they operate differently from one sector to the next.

Get a load of that pair, boys.

Destroy their farms!

Here, that scarecrow.

As part of the International Year of Rice celebration, the Indonesian Rice Foundation published the book Rice Is Beautiful, while a Rice Week celebration was organized in July in West Java.