Climate-Smart Rice the ‘Crop of the Future’

Published by the Environmental News Service

LOS BAÑOS, Philippines, February 24, 2017 (ENS) – More than half of the world’s population, nearly four billion people, eat rice as their daily staple, but the changing climate is making it tougher for rice farmers to keep their plants alive until harvest. Now, new, stress-tolerant rice varieties can help make farmers more resilient.

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