Local farmers harvest rice at a high-yield hybrid rice demonstration field in Mahitsy, Madagascar, on May 8, 2024. To help ...

Hector Tabbun, chief of the Research Division, said the project aimed to introduce and promote advanced rice cultivation technologies. He explained that the technology includes the use of hybrid seeds ...

NAPIGEN, Inc., a biotechnology company specializing in advanced gene-editing technologies, has received notification from the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) confirming that its gene-edited rice ...

Yuan Longping, an agronomist who developed strains of high-yield rice that made significant progress against famine, died in a hospital on May 22 at age 90. People’s Daily, a state-run media outlet in ...

Local farmers work for the China-Gambia agricultural technology cooperation project in Central River Division, Gambia, on ...

revolutionized rice production in Asia through the use of hybrid rice technology. Currently, the share of hybrid rice in Asian markets is about 60 per cent. If Africa is going to bridge its rice ...

Using proprietary organellar gene editing technology, NAPIGEN has modified ... component in the development of higher yielding hybrid rice lines. The USDA’s Biotechnology Regulatory Services ...

However, adoption rates remain surprisingly low in key staples like rice, where hybrid varieties cover only 8 per cent of the total cultivated area despite 35 years of technology introduction.

hybrid rice has made a convincing case that hunger will eventually be eradicated. Between 2013 and the end of 2023, China established 24 agricultural technology demonstration centers in Africa and ...

In July 2019, he met Huang Zhi, country manager of Longping High-Tech, a Chinese agricultural company named after Yuan Longping who was known as the "father of hybrid rice," and his team ...