INTERNATIONAL RICE RESEARCH

INSTITUTE(IRRI)

IRRI International Research InstituteHelped Filipino farmers increase their rice production by developing new technologiesA nonprofit organization that sources funding from government and the private sector world wideex. ADB, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation

> IRRI-developed technologies were initially tested and perfected in the Philippines before they were brought to other countriesContribute to more than 300% increase in our rice production.Los Banos, Laguna in 1960

EMPLOYMENTPeople employed: 900 headquarters1,200 contract farmers *support local families = contribution in our economy

TRAINING AND EDUCATION

>provide scholarships>OJTs>Riceworld Museum, the International Rice Genebank, and the other facilities at IRRI’s Los Baños headquarters receive 40-50,000 visitors a year including around 25,000 students and over 1,000 farmers.

COMMUNITY WORK>IRRI mobilized its staff to raise money and donate goods to local residents suffering the worst form typhoons.>medical missions, seminars

IRRI’s SCIENCE PARTNERS IN LOS BANOS

1.)UPLB (University of the Philippines Los Baños)

-support in the land where IRRI is located

-IRRI donates equipments to UPLB-staff mentors UPLB students (undertaking their doctorate studies)

>PhilRice (Philippine Rice Research Institute)

-IRRI allows PhilRice to access their laboratories and the International Rice Genebank

NEW RICE VARIETIES>76 varities in the Philippines are attributed to IRRI>3 new rice varieties

Flood-tolerantDrought-tolerantSalt-tolerant

*Rice growing lands that are less productive will become more productive w/ the new varieties