Although the rice technology of the 1960s and 70s focused on irrigated rice, farmers in the uplands were not forgotten.

Ehoala phase of Anosy with focus on irrigated rice, but manioc had also been introduced.

It also may bring much lower returns, both economic, political and (in a bureaucratic framework) promotional, than spectacular breakthroughs in irrigated rice or wheat, for example.

Other farmers from the south have planted irrigated rice, soybeans, and corn, but Flores is still known as cattle country.

In the North, while irrigated rice remained the principal subsistence crop, the French introduced plantation agriculture with products such as coffee, tea, cotton, and tobacco.

Producer of dairy and beef cattle, followed by agriculture: beans, corn, manioc, cotton, and irrigated rice.

Over 1,000 hectares of irrigated rice and other crops were being grown using the company's canals.

The consortium was established to identify and address regional research needs in irrigated rice, and to foster multi-disciplinary research.

The Toba and Karo Batak live in permanent villages and cultivate irrigated rice and vegetables.

They possessed good technical skills while the more advanced groups, who lived near the coast and in the lower delta of Mekong, cultivated irrigated rice.