IRRI Agronomy Challenge: The Documentary

During January-June 2012, Achim Dobermann, deputy director general for research at the International Rice Research Institute (IRRI; http://irri.org), and Leigh Vial, head of IRRI's experiment station, conducted a unique special project, the IRRI Agronomy Challenge, in which they demonstrated how to grow a productive rice crop in a 25 x 100-meter field on IRRI's research farm. This 43-minute documentary shows the step-by-step process of successes--and failures--from soil preparation and variety selection to harvest, postharvest, and assessment of what happened. Special guest experts from IRRI appeared to discuss certain activities and issues. For more details, see Achim Dobermann's blog commentary on the IRRI Web site at http://www.irri.org/index.php?option=com_k2&view=itemlist&task=category&id=571:achim-dobermanns-blog&lang=en