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International Rice Research Institute

• Located at Los Baños, Laguna, it is the world’s most complete center for research on rice (oryza sativa). It has resident scientists and trainees from the rice-producing nations of the South and Southeast Asia, senior scientists who are members of the affiliate graduate faculty of the University of the Philippines (UP), and rigidly selected international specialists in every phase of science concerned with rice production.

With splendid research laboratories, greenhouses, experiment rice fields, and an unequalled collection of technical literature on rice, IRRI attracts about 60 graduate students each year from all over the world. More than half of these students are candidates for an advanced degree in the Graduate School of UP College of Agriculture. Formally dedicated in February, 1962, IRRI was founded by the Ford Foundation. Its headquarters and field laboratories are adjacent to the UP College of Agriculture and its Experiment Station is at Los Baños. Much of the research involves changing the architecture of the rice plant, the staple food of 100 million people in the world.

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