25 Nov, 2008
Flood-resistant rice feeds hope for Filipinos
Posted by: admin In: Around Beijing| News
By Ian Williams, NBC News correspondent LAGUNA, Philippines - Robert Zeigler was a terrific host, bubbling with enthusiasm as he told me about the new varieties of rice that could bring enormous relief to the world’s poor.
“This is a transformational technology. It gives me goose bumps,” he said, pointing at clusters of rice stems emerging from a flooded paddy field. “These are tailored for floods. They basically hold their breath underwater.”
He was pointing at a new variety of flood resistant…(read more)
