We have gathered here to share our insights on the organization, the performance and the production effects of a new international network of agricultural research activities. This network, which has been developed during ...

A basic requirement of any agricultural research station is a well organized and managed experimental farm. In the past, agricultural research in India had suffered badly due to inadequate attention to this vital need. ...

Maize is produced primarily in temperate and warm-temperate zones of the world, but its production is increasing in many tropical regions. Some diseases are common to both of these environmental zones, even though their ...

We all share concern in the rapidly increasing world population; many demographers now estimate that this increase may be forty percent within the next ten years. Such projections suggest that national average yields must ...

Spurred by the needs of a protein-hungry world, maize research has moved rapidly over the past 10 years. Maize breeders, biochemists, and nutritionists have combined their efforts to develop maize varieties and hybrids ...

In looking ahead at the Green Revolution I will attempt to view dispassionately what has been accomplished, what can be expected, and what cannot be expected to accrue, from this technological advance. I intend to look at ...

The future of food production in spite of Malthus (1) warning in 1798 has become a topic of overriding concern only in the past 12 - 15 years. There have been a number of very severe famines such as that in India 1669-1670 ...