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A Super Rice for the Year 2000 : New Look Rice Plant to Break Yield Barrier

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Title A Super Rice for the Year 2000 : New Look Rice Plant to Break Yield Barrier
 
Creator CGIAR Secretariat
 
Description News release announcing that scientists estimated that the world's annual rice output must rise by 60 per cent to reach 760 million tons by 2020 just to keep up with the predicted population growth. To face this challenge, scientists at the International Rice Research Institute are working on the development of a new ultra-high yielding rice plant that will produce 20 percent to 30 percent more than the best semidwarf rices now grown on most irrigated land. Dr. Klaus Lampe, IRRI's Director General, announced today at a meeting on agricultural research that the ultra-high yielding variety should be ready in five to eight years and would have a modified architecture, or new look.
 
Date 1991-10-01
1991-10-01T00:00:01Z
1991-10-01T00:00:01Z
 
Type Internal Document
 
Identifier https://hdl.handle.net/10947/86
 
Language en
 
Rights Open Access
 
Format application/pdf