Climate Change Threatens Global Rice
Climate change is cutting deeply into yields from so-called Miracle Rice, which is credited with keeping millions from starvation across Asia, according to Dr Shaobing Peng, a research scientist with the International Rice Research Institute in Los Banos, Philippines.
Yields from IR8, which was developed in the 1960s by the IRRI, have dropped by about 15…
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