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IRRI today 183In spite of this highly efficient operation in 1972 (and the output per personcould scarcely be exceeded), the volume of publications emanating from theOIS today dwarfs IRRI’s earlier production.In addition to continuing The IRRI Reporter, the Institute now puts out abimonthly journal, International Rice Research Newsletter (first issued in 1976),which contains short articles by rice scientists throughout the world andconstitutes the most up-to-date account of current research on rice.In 1976, IRRI began issuing a new set of publications called the IRRI ResearchPaper Series, which serves as a vehicle for the timely announcement of researchfindings of the Institute’s senior scientists and their associated junior staff. Theseries has proved to be a popular publishing medium for the IRRI staff andabout 10 papers are issued each year. (A complete list of the series from itsbeginning appears in Appendix 12.)Besides the three continuing publications just mentioned, the OIS preparesa lengthy (more than 500-page) Annual Report from the materials sent in by thescientific staff. Each annual report is preceded by a shorter booklet calledResearch Highlights, which is printed in time to be distributed to the principaldonors before the annual centers week sponsored by the CGIAR.A major responsibility of the OIS is to edit and publish the proceedings ofall conferences, workshops, and symposia held by IRRI during the year. As anexample of the workload, in 1979 alone the following publications of this typewere issued:• Report of a Rice Cold Tolerance Workshop• Proceedings of the 1978 International Deepwater Rice Workshop• Proceedings of the Rice Blast Workshop• Interfaces between Agriculture, Nutrition, and Food Science• Proceedings of the Workshop on Chemical Aspects of Grain Quality• Nitrogen and Rice• Brown Planthopper: Threat to Rice Production in Asia• Rainfed Lowland Rice• Farm-level Constraints to High Rice Yields in Asia: 1974-77Furthermore, IRRI makes a significant contribution to the rice literature bypublishing bulletins and books written by its senior staff. Examples of recentpublications of that type are:Rice: Soil, Water, Land by F.R. Moormann and Nico Van Breemen (1978)Anatomy of a Peasant Economy by Y. Hayami (1978)Rice Research and Production in China: an IRRI Team’s View (1978)Rice Improvement by P.R. Jennings, W.R. Coffman, and H.E. Kauffman (1979)Blue-Green Algae and Rice by P.A. Roger and S.A. Kulasooriya (1980)Principles and Practices of Rice Production (John Wiley and Sons) by S.K. DeDatta (1981)Fundamentals of Rice Crop Science by Shouichi Yoshida (1981)In addition to the IRRI publications mentioned here, the Institute’s Libraryand Documentation Center issues annual international bibliographies on riceresearch and cropping systems. This is an extremely important contribution,
184 History of the International Rice Research Institutefor it undoubtedly provides the world‘s most complete account of the currentliterature in those fields.IRRI’s publications program is eminently successful, not only from thestandpoint of providing essential information to individual scientists and tolibraries but financially as well. Its prices are modest for customers in thedeveloping nations and higher for those in the more affluent countries. Forexample, the Annual Report for 1978 sold for $6.00 in the former and $15.00 inthe latter. The IRRI Reporter and the International Rice Research Newsletter areprovided free of charge to rice scientists on request.Cooperation with the People’s Republic of ChinaAlthough the People’s Republic of China is the world’s largest producer of rice,during IRRI’s early days there was essentially no communication betweenChinese scientists and those in the Philippines or in many other countries. IRRIwas aware that some of its varieties had moved from the New Territories(Hongkong) into mainland China but had no information about the degree ofimpact, if any.The first attempt by IRRI administrators to make contact with agriculturistsin China was in late 1971 when an invitation was extended to its Minister ofAgriculture to attend IRRI’s 10th Anniversary Celebration in the Philippinesin April 1972. Although no direct response to the invitation was received by theInstitute, word reached the Chinese scientists at IRRI through contacts inHongkong that the invitation would have to be declined.At that time, the Philippines had diplomatic relations with the Republic ofChina (Taiwan) but not with the People’s Republic of China. In early 1972, Ihappened to run into a member of the Taiwan diplomatic corps in the lobby ofthe Intercontinental Hotel in Manila. Obviously disturbed that the IRRIinvitation had been issued, the latter rather indignantly asked me who had toldme to invite the Minister of Agriculture from China. No one had told me to doit, I replied; IRRI administrators and the committee planning the 10th AnniversaryCelebration had decided, without consulting anyone outside the Institute,to issue the invitation. The Taiwan official appeared not to believe this andwent away in an unhappy mood. However, several years later when, on oneof my visits to the Philippines, I again met the official, he was most genial,apparently to make up for his antagonism at the earlier encounter. By that time(1976), IRRI was establishing major contacts with China.The first successful exchange between IRRI and China was in 1972 whenseeds of IR20 and other promising IRRI varieties were presented to a Chinesetrade delegation by President Marcos of the Philippines. Person-to-personcontact between IRRI and China first took place in 1974 when Director GeneralBrady was invited to join a 10-member plant science delegation to China underthe sponsorship of the Committee on Scholarly Communication with thePeople’s Republic of China. This group, headed by Sterling Wortman, spent 4weeks in the PRC from 27 August to 23 September. During the visit, Bradydistributed seeds of IRRI rice varieties to Chinese research workers and, in
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CHAPTER 1An international institute
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