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These improved strains should make it possible for farmers in South and Southeast Asia to increase rice yields materially.
"This represents a hopeful beginning toward increasing the supply of the staple food of hundreds of millions of people. The continued research of the institute is especially important at this time when already insufficient supplies of rice must be spread still thinner to provide nourishment for the world's increasing population.
The following results were reported:
1. Plant breeders at the institute have produced rioe varieties wi>h stiff-straw3d stems, to prevent the plant from collapsing before the grain is ready for harvesting. This weakened condition — known as "lodging" — causes the plants to lie tangled and flat and results in sharply reduced rice yields. Lodging often occurs in rice plants when nitrogen is used as a fertilizer. The new stiff-strawed rice plants, however, are able to thrive and benefit from nitrogen and thus have a great potential for increasing rice production.
2. Research at the institute has revealed that rice that matures early (in 110 to 120 days after planting) will yield as well as late-maturing varieties (that require 150 to 200 days). With sufficient water for irrigation, it will be possible, using early-maturing varieties, to grow two crops in some areas where one is now produced, or even three where two are grown. In Taiwan, early - maturing varieties, combined with the inter-planting of a vegetable crop before the rice is harvested, has made it possible in some parts of the country to take four crops off the land in 12 or 13 months.
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