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GCSE		Edexcel Geography Specification A syllabus no.1312
A3 The Economic World		3  Rice in the Philippines
Chapter 2  pages 54-55		Tomorrow's Geography  Mike Harcourt and Steph Warren, published by Hodder and Stoughton 0 340 79965 X
case study: Rice farming in the Philippines
students should - Recall specific information about a study of intensive wet rice farming, to include any advances that have taken place.
A study of intensive wet rice farming in an LEDC. (3 lessons)             Some of the many varieties of rice		Rice farming in the Philippines   Rice in the Philippines - link to FACE, the new NFU education site. Watch video G209 or G215  Philippines: Rice Against Time channel 4 video notes on Philippines  IRRI International Rice Research Institute Institute Rice web Answer either Foundation or Higher question fromTomorrow's Geography  page 55 The amazing rice terraces of central Luzon - traditional highland rice cultivation. Workshop 3D The Flora Communiity - an agro-ecological village The Green Revolution
Economic World  1  Industry   Classification and change Economic World  2  Farm systems Economic World  3  Philippines Rice Economic World  4  Change in the EU   Economic World  5 Hi-Tech Economic World  6 LEDC's & TNC's             GCSE home	Developing New Rice Varieties IR8 - The first of the modern, high-yielding, semi-dwarf rices that sparked the Green Revolution was developed by IRRI and released to stave off the mass famine that was predicted for Asia in the 1970s. It outproduced all existing rice varieties by a factor of two.   IR36 -This early maturing variety had multiple pest resistance, and had been planted to more than 11 million hectares by the 1980s - a world record. IR36's contribution to global food security was recognized when IRRI received the King Baudouin Award in 1982.   IR64 -IRRI celebrated its 25th anniversary in 1985 by releasing IR64, whose excellent grain quality, pest resistance and high yields made it the most widely planted variety of rice in the 1990s.  'Super Rice' In 1989, IRRI began to develop a completely new rice plant that could break the yield plateau reached by the modern high-yielding varieties. TIME magazine called the new plant type "one of the five top environment stories of 1994". Now going through a process of further refinement, "super rice' is expected to be in farmers' fields in 2003.   from the CGIAR