Rice Breeding for Rice Farmers of Thailand 4.0

Aboriginal people in Southeast Asia have been cultivating rice as staple food for more than 5,000 years since the prehistoric period. The evidence of rice cultivation was found in the excavation of Ban Chiang civilization in Udon Thani Province. Thailand has thousands of native rice varieties [1] and Thai people have high skill in rice planting. It is not uncommon for Thailand to be in the top three of the rice exporters of the world's rice market. ... Read more