Brazil rice breeding

Upland rice is an important crop in Brazil with almost 2 million ha planted every year. Although this area is less than half of the area planted in the 1980s as a pioneer crop in the Brazilian savannas (also known as Cerrado), this system is regarded as having a high potential for expansion with increasing international demand for rice.

The Brazilian Corporation for Agricultural Research (Embrapa) has conducted an upland rice breeding program since 1975, in collaboration with other public institutions, aiming at developing rice cultivars with improved agronomic and grain quality characteristics, resistant to biotic and abiotic stresses, and well adapted to the upland rice growing regions in Brazil. Read more ...

This blog is written by Martin Little The Global Miller, published and supported by the GFMT Magazine from Perendale Publishers.