Laos: Celebrating the Earth, Part 1 On YouTube.
Part 2: ca.youtube.com celebrates the entire program of 12 minutes on Google Video video.google.com, country, parts 1 and 2, a video of the Research Institute (IRRI; irri.org) produces celebrates results the Lao-IRRI Project (http). The green revolution has finally arrived in Laos, almost 20 years after benefiting the rest of Asia. He put the tiny nation are available - one of the poorest in Asia - with the food security needs basis for the economic futureDevelopment. But the spark for this revolution came from the world by the government of another small, mountainous, landlocked country - Switzerland. It 'was the Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation (SDC www.sdc.org.vn) that funding for the 16 years of effort provided - conducted jointly by the Lao national rice research and IRRI. The services of the Lao-IRRI Rice Research and Training Project has been completed effective in September 2006. Between1990 and 2004, rice production in Laos increased 1500000-2500000 tons - an average annual growth of over 5%, so that the small underdeveloped country star performer in Asia in rice research and development. Mainly due to the adoption of modern varieties of Lao - - The increase of production was estimated at 8,000 thousand dollars to $ 19 million a year, with households adopting these varieties having more than triple the cash income of private households growsTraditional ...
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