Rice Monitoring Survey: South Asia

Rice Monitoring Survey: South Asia (RMS-SA) Project was IRRI implemented with support from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation (BMGF) to monitor rice system that captures varietal turnovers over time. The project consisted of (a) household surveys of about 9,000 rice farmers in India, Bangladesh, and Nepal, (b) rice seeds collection from 20 % of the sample households, and (c) DNA fingerprinting of the sampled rice seeds.南亚水稻监测调查（Rice Monitoring Survey: South Asia，简称RMS-SA）项目由国际水稻研究所（International Rice Research Institute，IRRI）牵头实施，获比尔及梅琳达·盖茨基金会（Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation，BMGF）资助，旨在对水稻种植系统开展长期监测，以追踪水稻品种随时间的更替动态。本项目包含三项研究内容：(a) 针对印度、孟加拉国及尼泊尔约9000户水稻种植户开展入户调查；(b) 从20%的样本农户中采集水稻种子；(c) 对所采集的水稻种子进行DNA指纹鉴定。