Improving farmer livelihoods in Asia: knowledge-intensive crop management for irrigated rice The Irrigated Rice Research Consortium (IRRC) strives to ensure that Asian rice farmers benefit from technologies arising through research. The consortium aims to Strengthen national agricultural research and extension systems (NARES)-extension partnerships for technology development, validation, and promotion Strengthen capacity of NARES partners Develop improved approaches and technologies for more productive and sustainable production Disseminate promising production principles and technologies   Full story

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Good agricultural practices for irrigated rice The International Rice Research Institute (IRRI), through the Irrigated Rice Research Consortium, will launch its web site on good agricultural practices (GAP) for irrigated rice on 13 October 2009. Full story

IRRC sponsors workshop on irrigated rice production in An Giang, Vietnam titled Improving Rice Quality and Yield through Good Agricultural Practices—the model of An Giang. Full story

Tightening ties with the Thais A successful sharing of cross-country learning among Asian countries was captured at the Research to Impact Workshop of the Irrigated Rice Research Consortium on 23-24 September 2008. Full story

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