Research Highlight

Hipa-5 Ceva Hybrid Rice Variety

The hybrid rice Hipa-5 ceva is hybrid rice engineered by the researchers of Indonesian Center for Rice Research in collaboration with the Government of Central Java Province. (more ...)

Atlas of Cropping Calendar

Atlas of Cropping CalendarThe maps illustrate potentials of cropping pattern and time of planting for food crops, espe-cially paddy, based on the potential and dynamic of climate and water resources. A map of planting calendar is expected to provide information for cropping adjust-ment to cope with climate anomaly and change. (more ...)

News

  • The History: Paddy Thresher

    03 Mei

    Human demands for food, making the technology must be developed to solve the problems of how to increase agricultural production. This makes it increasingly displaced the existence of the traditional tools by machines created with the aim to facilitate the fulfillment of human needs. Likewise with the fate of traditional thresher appliance so called Gebotan. (more ...)

  • Citrus Plant Screen House Model

    02 Mei

    Citrus agribusiness development begins with the nurseries that demanded strong support for a strong nursery industry. Availability of citrus seedlings at planting, the number and needs of farmers at an affordable price is the key to the success of citrus agribusiness development in Indonesia. (more ...)

  • International Seminar : Rice Innovation

    09 Apr

    Climate change has affected many aspects of agriculture. Extreme weather has caused storm, drought, and flood in some rice production areas. Increasing of sea level caused saline water intrusion to wider rice areas and seriously affected rice cultivation. In addition, an increasing temperature has reported by scientists could reduce the yield of rice crop. Meanwhile, pests and diseases outbreak are faced by farmers and it was also significantly reduced rice yield.

    The impact of global climate change has been reported by scientists and mass media that caused declining yield and quality of rice. It is predicted that in 2020 world population would reach 7 million people. At least 237 million people in Indonesia depend on rice as staple food therefore; special efforts have to be addressed to maintain rice production at sufficient level. Rice production should be increased over time to cope with the increasing population growth. Indonesia’s rice production needs to be increased by 2 million tons of milled rice annually.

    Therefore, research and development of rice technologies along with dissemination through farmers and related stakeholders need to be intensified. (more ...)

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