Mrs. Lumpai Na-ngam has been a rice farmer all her life. Together with her family, she lives in the Ubon Ratchathani province in north-eastern Thailand, where rice production is often the only source of income
Writer: Rojana Manowalailao, ASEAN Sustainable Agrifood Systems Over 400 students and technicians from three provinces in the Mekong Delta recently participated in the Information Days of the Integrated Pest Management (IPM) sub project under Better
Covering 57 hectares across three regional sites in Iloilo, Aurora and Southern Leyte, the demo plots were established as a core component of Better Rice Initiative ASIA (BRIA) in the Philippines training curriculum for extension
Writer: Atthawit Watcharapongchai, Better Rice Initiative Asia Thailand’s Deputy Minister of the Ministry of Agricultural and Cooperatives (MoAC) recently received representatives from Better Rice Initiative Asia and ASEAN Sustainable Agrifood Systems to exchange views in
Lack of access to information and technology of best rice cultivation, agro-inputs, markets and capital in Indonesia is part of the challenges to meet the country’s population growth rate of 1.49% per year. Efforts to
Writer: Kamol Taukitphaisarn, Better Rice Initiative Asia Thailand’s Rice Department, Better Rice Initiative Asia project, OLAM International, and Bayer have jointly initiated pilot testing of the Sustainable Rice Platform Standard with farmer groups in the