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Food and Agriculture > Agricultural and Food Practices
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| Title | | | | Revolutionary Method Using Genetic "Maps and Markers" Promises to Increase Rice Yields by 15-20 Percent in Hungry South Asia -- June 15, 1995 |
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| Author | | | | Barbara Rose |
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| Abstract | | | | "A team of scientists with Cornell University and China's Hunan Hybrid Rice Research Center are systematically harvesting high-yielding plant genes using molecular maps and markers to boost the yields of the world's most important food crop. The method promises to increase rice yields by 15-20 percent over a four- to five-year period, announced the scientists today at an international conference on agriculture and the environment. The method could sustain incremental yield increases in rice of 3-5 percent per year over the next 15-25 years, the scientists said. The scientists also hope to apply the same method to other major food staples, including wheat, maize, and beans." |
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International Food Research Policy Institute |
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| URL: | | | | http://www.cgiar.org/ifpri/pressrel/061595d.htm |
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| Peer Review | | | | Unknown Peer Review Process |
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| Title | | | | The Sixth World Food Survey |
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| Author | | | | Food and Agricultural Organization |
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| Abstract | | | | "The main conclusion of the survey is that per capita dietary energy supplies have continued to increase in the developing countries as a whole, with the result that, during the two decades from 1969-71, the prevalence of food inadequacy declined: 20 percent of the total population had inadequate access to food in 1990-92 compared with 35 percent two decades ago." |
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| Affiliation | | | | United Nations |
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| URL: | | | | http://www.fao.org/waicent/faoinfo/economic/ESS/for-e.htm |
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| Peer Review | | | | Unknown Peer Review Process |
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