Hybrid rice technology development: Ensuring China's food security

Hybrid rice technology development: Ensuring China's food security

Author: Jiming Li, Yeyun Xin, Longping Yuan

Publisher: Intl Food Policy Res Inst

Published:

Total Pages: 40

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Hybrid Rice for Food Security, Poverty Alleviation, and Environmental Protection

Hybrid Rice for Food Security, Poverty Alleviation, and Environmental Protection

Author: Sant S. Virmani

Publisher: Int. Rice Res. Inst.

Published: 2003

Total Pages: 385

ISBN-13: 9712201880

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Technology of Hybrid Rice Production

Technology of Hybrid Rice Production

Author: Longping Yuan

Publisher: Food & Agriculture Organization of the UN (FAO)

Published: 1995

Total Pages: 104

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Heterosis in rice; Rice cytoplasmic-genetic male sterility system; Procedures for breeding hybrid rice; Breeding for CMS lines and their maintainers; Breeding for restorer lines; Hybrid seed production and CMS line multiplication; Purifying parental lines and producing foundation seeds; hybrid rice cultivation practices; Breeding two-line system hybrid rice; Studies on one-line system hybrid rice development.


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Download or read book Technology of Hybrid Rice Production written by Longping Yuan and published by Food & Agriculture Organization of the UN (FAO). This book was released on 1995 with total page 104 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Heterosis in rice; Rice cytoplasmic-genetic male sterility system; Procedures for breeding hybrid rice; Breeding for CMS lines and their maintainers; Breeding for restorer lines; Hybrid seed production and CMS line multiplication; Purifying parental lines and producing foundation seeds; hybrid rice cultivation practices; Breeding two-line system hybrid rice; Studies on one-line system hybrid rice development.


Hybrid Rice Technology

Hybrid Rice Technology

Author: S. S. Virmani

Publisher: Int. Rice Res. Inst.

Published: 1994

Total Pages: 304

ISBN-13: 9712200531

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This symposium is a follow-up to one held in China in 1986. Since then considerable progress has been made in research and development of hybrid rice. This second international symposium was held under the umbrella of the International Rice Research Conference. Eighty scientists and seed production experts from 18 countries, IRRI and FAO attended. Contributions covered breeding, biotechnology, seed production, agronomy, plant physiology, plant pathology, entomology and economics.


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Download or read book Hybrid Rice Technology written by S. S. Virmani and published by Int. Rice Res. Inst.. This book was released on 1994 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This symposium is a follow-up to one held in China in 1986. Since then considerable progress has been made in research and development of hybrid rice. This second international symposium was held under the umbrella of the International Rice Research Conference. Eighty scientists and seed production experts from 18 countries, IRRI and FAO attended. Contributions covered breeding, biotechnology, seed production, agronomy, plant physiology, plant pathology, entomology and economics.


Hybrid Rice - The Journey

Hybrid Rice - The Journey

Author: Robin Andrews

Publisher: Lulu.com

Published: 2017-09-24

Total Pages: 120

ISBN-13: 1387186965

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In 1964 a Chinese rice breeder, Yuan Longping, discovered a rice plant that was the genetic key to the successful development of high yielding hybrid rice. At that time, China was a secretive communist state where self pollinating varietal rice was grown on collective farms using highly labor intensive practices. Forty years later, by 2004, hybrid rice, based on Yuan's work, was being grown commercially in the United States using mechanized farming practices. This book describes the journey across those four decades and the chain of events and people which resulted in technical success in China by 1976 and in the United States by 2000. Extraordinary political and technological developments occurred during this time and the book describes these and the many serendipitous events and people of different backgrounds that were involved in the successful journey. It is estimated that hybrid rice is now (2017) saving the US rice industry as much as $100 million each year.


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Download or read book Hybrid Rice - The Journey written by Robin Andrews and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2017-09-24 with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1964 a Chinese rice breeder, Yuan Longping, discovered a rice plant that was the genetic key to the successful development of high yielding hybrid rice. At that time, China was a secretive communist state where self pollinating varietal rice was grown on collective farms using highly labor intensive practices. Forty years later, by 2004, hybrid rice, based on Yuan's work, was being grown commercially in the United States using mechanized farming practices. This book describes the journey across those four decades and the chain of events and people which resulted in technical success in China by 1976 and in the United States by 2000. Extraordinary political and technological developments occurred during this time and the book describes these and the many serendipitous events and people of different backgrounds that were involved in the successful journey. It is estimated that hybrid rice is now (2017) saving the US rice industry as much as $100 million each year.


Hybrid Rice and World Food Security

Hybrid Rice and World Food Security

Author: Long-Ping Yuan

Publisher:

Published: 2005

Total Pages: 197

ISBN-13: 9787504640185

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Hybrid Rice Development and Seed Production in China

Hybrid Rice Development and Seed Production in China

Author: National Foreign Assessment Center (U.S.)

Publisher:

Published: 1980

Total Pages: 20

ISBN-13:

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Accelerating Hybrid Rice Development

Accelerating Hybrid Rice Development

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Publisher: Int. Rice Res. Inst.

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Total Pages: 709

ISBN-13: 9712202526

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Improving the proof: Evolution of and emerging trends in impact assessment methods and approaches in agricultural development

Improving the proof: Evolution of and emerging trends in impact assessment methods and approaches in agricultural development

Author: Mywish K. Maredia

Publisher: Intl Food Policy Res Inst

Published:

Total Pages: 48

ISBN-13:

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Assessing impacts of public investments has long captured the interest and attention of the development community. This paper presents the evolution of different methods and approaches used for ex ante appraisal, monitoring, project evaluation, and impact assessment over the last five decades. Among these tools, impact assessment (IA) conducted retrospectively comes closest to providing the proof of development effectiveness. It is defined as the systematic analysis of the significant or lasting changes in people's lives brought about by a given action or series of actions in relation to a counterfactual. There are three basic types of retrospective IAs: macro-level IAs that focus on the contribution of developmental efforts to an impact goal aggregated at a sector or a system level; micro-level impact evaluations (IEs) concerned with estimating the average effect of an intervention on outcomes at the beneficiary level; and micro-level ex post impact analysis concerned with total effects of a development effort after the outputs are scaled-up. Ex post IAs have evolved and expanded over the decades in both breadth and depth of analysis in response to evolving development themes and methodological advancements. The increased emphasis on learning from evaluations has also seen responses from both quantitative and qualitative camps of the evaluation community. The paper argues that generation of robust knowledge that feeds into making developmental policies and investment decisions requires a hierarchical and cumulative approach to "improving the proof" through rigorous and a variety of impact assessment methods applied incrementally at the project, program and system level. Subjecting as many development interventions as resources allow to rigorous impact assessment based on a common framework can help build a critical body of evidence on impacts of development interventions, which can then be subjected to meta-analyses to help assimilate results across different studies and build a knowledge base on what works and what does not.


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Download or read book Improving the proof: Evolution of and emerging trends in impact assessment methods and approaches in agricultural development written by Mywish K. Maredia and published by Intl Food Policy Res Inst. This book was released on with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Assessing impacts of public investments has long captured the interest and attention of the development community. This paper presents the evolution of different methods and approaches used for ex ante appraisal, monitoring, project evaluation, and impact assessment over the last five decades. Among these tools, impact assessment (IA) conducted retrospectively comes closest to providing the proof of development effectiveness. It is defined as the systematic analysis of the significant or lasting changes in people's lives brought about by a given action or series of actions in relation to a counterfactual. There are three basic types of retrospective IAs: macro-level IAs that focus on the contribution of developmental efforts to an impact goal aggregated at a sector or a system level; micro-level impact evaluations (IEs) concerned with estimating the average effect of an intervention on outcomes at the beneficiary level; and micro-level ex post impact analysis concerned with total effects of a development effort after the outputs are scaled-up. Ex post IAs have evolved and expanded over the decades in both breadth and depth of analysis in response to evolving development themes and methodological advancements. The increased emphasis on learning from evaluations has also seen responses from both quantitative and qualitative camps of the evaluation community. The paper argues that generation of robust knowledge that feeds into making developmental policies and investment decisions requires a hierarchical and cumulative approach to "improving the proof" through rigorous and a variety of impact assessment methods applied incrementally at the project, program and system level. Subjecting as many development interventions as resources allow to rigorous impact assessment based on a common framework can help build a critical body of evidence on impacts of development interventions, which can then be subjected to meta-analyses to help assimilate results across different studies and build a knowledge base on what works and what does not.


Private sector responses to public investments and policy reforms: The case of fertilizer and maize market development in Kenya

Private sector responses to public investments and policy reforms: The case of fertilizer and maize market development in Kenya

Author: Joshua Ariga, T. S. Jayne

Publisher: Intl Food Policy Res Inst

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Total Pages: 52

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Download or read book Private sector responses to public investments and policy reforms: The case of fertilizer and maize market development in Kenya written by Joshua Ariga, T. S. Jayne and published by Intl Food Policy Res Inst. This book was released on with total page 52 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: