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Welcome to Asia Rice Foundation USA. We are a group of people who have all worked and lived in a countries where rice is vital for food and to earn a livelihood. We started this foundation to support activities that contribute toward a world that can feed itself, treasures the rich heritage of its rice cultures and values its rice growing land as a precious resource to be shared with future generation.

ARFUSA makes study and travel grants to help scholars and artists learn about rice in the developing world by going to a country where rice is important to study aspects of rice production, marketing, consumption, policy or to create art or interpret culture related to rice.

Applications are now being accepted for 2008 Awards; click here to apply.

Applicants must be scholars registered at an accredited institution of higher education and have a supporting letter from their national rice foundation associated with Asia Rice Foundation, Inc or a faculty member of a United States university. Applications that involve travel and study of US-based scholars at IRRI are encouraged.

We support research and education to improve understanding of:

the role of rice in farming,

rice as an element in art and culture, and

rice as a food with a unique role.

We support efforts to help:

farmers to produce enough rice to meet world needs while conserving the environment,

preserve the rich artistic and cultural heritage of rice

Past awards went to:

Yuntao Dai, is an M.S. candidate in plant pathology at the University of Arkansas working on rice blast. He is being supported for travel for field work in Arkansas and to attend science meetings where he will present a paper and poster on his research. We received a strong letter of support from Yulin Jia, his advisor at the Bumpers Rice Research Center..

Abha Mishra, a PhD student from India studying Agriculture Systems and Engineering at the Asian Institute of Technology in Thailand for experimental work to illuminate the possible effects of soil biological factors and alternate wetting and drying in SRI, the so-called "System of Rice Intensification." (2005)

Chatchawan Jantasuriyarat a faculty member at Katsetsart University, Thailand who is studying the rice defense response pathway to rice blast using tools of genomics at Ohio State University to enable him to travel to Asia for field work and to participate in the IRRI rice genetics symposium before returning to complete his studies at Ohio State. (2005)

W. Wiratni, a PhD student from Indonesia studying at West Virginia University, for research that should help understand the chemistry of combined biological nitrogen-fixation and conventional fertilizer in paddy fields (2003).

H. H. Chang, a PhD student from Taiwan studying at Cornell University, for research to determine the environmental value of rice paddy fields for the "non-commodity" values like water percolation and landscape to aid in possible re-design of rice policy to facilitate entry into the WTO (2003).

Supaporn Hutthanasombut, a Master's degree Student in Biotechnology at Mahidol University in Bangkok, Thailand for research to help understand how rice might be genetically changed to grow better in saline (salt) conditions (2002).

Mark Chong, a PhD student in the Department of Communication at Cornell University to study the perceptions of leading rice farmers in the Philippines about Golden Rice, the new, genetically engineered rice with the potential to relieve Vitamin A deficiency (2002).

Ika Roostika Tambuan of the Research Institute for Food Crops, Bogor, Indonesia, to support her research to determine if rice plants with high level of tolerance for aluminum in upland soils can be developed by screening cells and regenerating whole plants from cells showing tolerance. (2001)

Kimberly M. Webb, Kansas State University, to support her research to test hypotheses about the durability of genetic resistance to rice bacterial blight. (2001)

Yuki Tokoyama, Ohio State University, to support her analysis of the demand for rice in Japan using data from a national survey of households. (2001)

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