Its hybrid rice time in Malaysia
HungerWednesday again! We feature this article from grain about how the popularity of hybrid rice is slowly killing off public breeding in Malaysia. Grain GRAIN visited the Penang research station of the . We wanted to check-in with Malaysia’s rice breeders about the status of hybrid rice in the country. One of Malaysian Agriculture and […]
Another rice crisis in the offing this year
HungerWednesday brings this disturbing forecast of a rice crisis occuring this year because of the worldwide credit crisis. MANILA, Philippines – A drop in oil and fertilizer costs has halved the price of rice — a staple for almost 700 million of Asia’s poorest — but it could jump again this year as farmers struggle […]
