{"id":4553,"date":"2019-05-03T10:14:01","date_gmt":"2019-05-03T10:14:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/icleiseas.org\/?p=4553"},"modified":"2019-05-03T10:14:01","modified_gmt":"2019-05-03T10:14:01","slug":"irri-variety-increases-indonesias-rice-production","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/icleiseas.org\/index.php\/2019\/05\/03\/irri-variety-increases-indonesias-rice-production\/","title":{"rendered":"IRRI variety increases Indonesia\u2019s rice production"},"content":{"rendered":"

This article first appeared on Jakarta Post.<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

Indonesia welcomed the new country office of the International Rice Research Institute (IRRI) on Monday in Bogor, West Java.<\/p>\n

IRRI director general Mathew Morell, together with the head of the Agriculture Ministry\u2019s Research and Development Agency, Fadjry Djufry, inaugurated the IRRI country office on Monday. The office, located in the same area as the research agency\u2019s head office on Jl. Merdeka, is expected to speed up knowledge and technology transfer on rice.<\/p>\n

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Director general of IRRI Mathew Morell together with the head of Agriculture Ministry\u2019s Research and Development Agency (Balitbangtan) Fadjry Djufry officiated IRRI country office in Indonesia. (Photo by Jakarta Post)<\/p><\/div>\n

Morrel said on behalf of the IRRI, he was thankful to be trusted by the government of Indonesia in applying the technology and skills of the IRRI. He also expressed the IRRI\u2019s commitment to partnership with the research agency and national partners to encourage research in the future.<\/p>\n

During his visit to Indonesia, Morrell also participated in national consultation between the agency and the IRRI, for the ASEAN + 3 initiative in Indonesia on \u201cRice genetic solution for climate resilience and value addition in ASEAN\u201d.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, Djufry said partnership between the Indonesian government and the IRRI had been ongoing since 1972, and that the IRRI\u2019s rice varieties had significantly increased Indonesia\u2019s rice production.<\/p>\n

He went on to say that the Ciherang rice variety, which came about 10 years ago, was the result of collaborative work between the government and the IRRI. The Ciherang variety was a marriage between local rice and the IRRI\u2019s rice seed. It is the most planted variety in Indonesia.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe already have around 300 varieties of new superior rice, and most of them are the result of cooperation with the IRRI. Ninety percent of superior rice variety planted in Indonesia is from the agency, and in 2019 we also released superior rice variety to overcome stunting, namely Inpari IR NutriZinc,\u201d said Fadjry.<\/p>\n

Inpari IR NutriZinc is the first rice variety in Indonesia that contains zinc, created to help put an end to stunting in Indonesia. It is a superior rice variety resilient to brown planthopper and is able to provide up to 50 percent of daily zinc requirements.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This article first appeared on Jakarta Post. Indonesia welcomed the new country office of the International Rice Research Institute (IRRI) on Monday in Bogor, West Java. IRRI director general Mathew Morell, together with the head of the Agriculture Ministry\u2019s Research and Development Agency, Fadjry Djufry, inaugurated the IRRI country office on Monday. The office, located […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":4554,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[52,51],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4553","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured-news","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/icleiseas.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4553","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/icleiseas.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/icleiseas.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icleiseas.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icleiseas.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4553"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/icleiseas.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4553\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4556,"href":"https:\/\/icleiseas.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4553\/revisions\/4556"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icleiseas.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4554"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/icleiseas.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4553"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icleiseas.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4553"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icleiseas.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4553"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}