The rice arm of the Green Revolution, founded in the Philippines in 1960 by the Ford and Rockefeller foundations. IRRI's IR8 rice of 1966, the so-called miracle rice, doubled and tripled paddy yields across Asia, and its genebank holds the world's largest collection of rice diversity, over 130,000 accessions. This description is adapted from Wikipedia contributors under CC BY-SA 4.0; changes were made. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/
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Founding Year HeadquartersLos Banos, Laguna, Philippines 1 Classification
KindInternational Agricultural Research Center 1 Connections
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IRRI, developer of the IR8 high-yielding rice variety, is one of the two research institutions most consistently credited as the origin of the Green Revolution.
IRRI's IR8 high-yielding rice variety was central to the rice side of India's Green Revolution.
Rice, Crops The International Rice Research Institute is the CGIAR center whose founding and continuing mandate is rice research.
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The rice arm of the Green Revolution, founded in the Philippines in 1960 by the Ford and Rockefeller foundations.
Henry Beachell (Wikipedia)
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He went to International Rice Research Institute (IRRI) in 1963 after his retirement from the DOA.
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