Article ID: CBB249363163

Mutant rice and agricultural modernization in Asia (2020)

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Mizuno, Hiromi (Author)


History and Technology
Volume: 36
Issue: 3-4
Pages: 360-381


Publication Date: 2020
Edition Details: Special Issue: Development Interventions: Science, Technology, and Technical Assistance
Language: English

By using the genealogy of hybrid rice, Mahsuri, developed in Malaysia by Japanese agronomists in the 1960s, this article tells a story of agricultural modernization in Asia that challenges the US-centered narrative of the Green Revolution. Cross-racial hybrid Mahsuri’s parent is Taichung 65 from colonial Taiwan, and its off-spring is irradiated Mahsuri Mutant. By highlighting the deep connection between colonial development and post-World War II technical assistance, the role of intra-Asia networks in crop improvement programs in Asia, and the agency of postcolonial Asian nations, this article critiques the ironies embedded in the mutant rice and in the concept of development.

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Article Gisela Mateos; Edna Suárez-Díaz (2020) Development interventions: science, technology and technical assistance. History and Technology (pp. 293-309). unapi

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Authors & Contributors
Coclanis, Peter A.
Gluck, Carol
Hahn, Barbara
Hartmann, Heinrich
Iida, Kaori
Kingsbury, Noel
Journals
Agricultural History
Historia Scientiarum: International Journal of the History of Science Society of Japan
East Asian Science, Technology and Society: An International Journal
Journal of Colonialism and Colonial History
Journal of Global History
Science as Culture
Publishers
The Johns Hopkins University Press
Columbia University
Berghahn Books
Campus Verlag
Routledge/Taylor & Francis Group
Rowman & Littlefield
Concepts
Agriculture
Colonialism
Rice and rice industry
Modernization
Rice growing
France, colonies
People
Burbank, Luther
Howard, Albert, Sir
Kihara, Hitoshi
Mendel, Gregor Johann
Time Periods
20th century
20th century, early
19th century
20th century, late
18th century
21st century
Places
Japan
India
Korea
Taiwan
Africa
Great Britain
Institutions
Rockefeller Foundation
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