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Driving Sustainable Rice Cultivation: Understanding the SRP Standard and Performance Indicators
Updated on 17 February 2025
The Sustainable Rice Platform (SRP) promotes resource-use efficiency and sustainability in the global rice sector to enable 1 million rice farmers to adopt climate-smart, sustainable best practices in rice production, boosting farm incomes and livelihoods and protecting our environment.
SRP aims to build an expert pool of SRP Authorized Training Providers (institutions), Trainers (individuals), and Auditors to deliver the most current and accurate know-how on the core SRP instruments to SRP Registered Projects, SRP Members, and other rice sector stakeholders – to help scale implementation globally and at high-quality.
This course, Driving Sustainable Rice Cultivation: Understanding the Sustainable Rice Platform (SRP) Standard & Performance Indicators, is a four-day intensive skills course designed to help participants relate the benefits of sustainable rice farming to farmers, explain the SRP Standards on rice cultivation and the performance indicators; and conduct data collection and assessment among farmers to measure compliance to SRP performance indicators.
Modality: Online
Course Dates: March 18-21, 2025
Application Deadline: March 7, 2025
Recent Advances in Hybrid Rice Breeding
Updated on 17 February 2025
Over the last few decades, global rice production has doubled from 257 to 600 million tons. This growth has mainly been achieved through the application of conventional plant breeding methods, coupled with improved production technologies. To meet the growing population, we need to produce 25% more rice by 2025. This increase in rice production must come with less land, water, chemicals, and labor. Many biotic and abiotic stresses continue to threaten rice productivity and sustainability. The major challenge is to overcome these constraints and produce high-yielding rice varieties with resistance to both biotic and abiotic stresses while improving grain quality and nutritional value. The latest advances in biotechnology and genomics offer new opportunities to address these limiting factors in rice production. New approaches are crucial to accelerating current breeding programs.
This course covers the stages and components of a rice breeding program, with a specific focus on product development, and provides participants with an in-depth understanding of the latest developments and techniques in hybrid rice breeding.
Location: IRRI Headquarters, Philippines
Course Dates: April 24 to May 5, 2025
Application Deadline: March 10, 2025
Rice: Research to Production
Updated on 17 February 2025
This course covers the basics of rice production, an overview of the changes and challenges in the rice industry from production to market, an awareness of the research considerations around the rice-based agri-food systems, advancements in rice breeding, the socio-economic and environmental aspects of rice production, latest innovations in rice science, and building effective collaborations within the international research community.
Facilitated by the respective experts in IRRI, course activities range from instructor-led lectures, open discussions, asynchronous sessions, and hands-on field exercises.
Location: IRRI Headquarters, Philippines
Course Dates: May 26 to June 13, 2025
Application Deadline: April 1, 2025
Online Course
Phenotyping Protocols for Abiotic Stress Tolerance in Rice (Screening for Submergence, Salinity, Drought Tolerance)
Do you want to learn how to identify genotypes that can be used to develop rice varieties that can help rice survive in major stresses such as flooding or drought?
Course Outline
Screening for seedling stage salinity tolerance
Screening for anaerobic germination tolerance
Screening for submergence (field and submergence tank)
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Previous Trainings
Stress-tolerant rice varieties
View stress-tolerant rice varieties (STRVs) that have been released, and are now available in the different states/provinces of South Asian and African countries