Mali: Women adopt mechanized rice harvesting and drying to reduce post-harvest losses
Molodo is a village in central Mali, some 150 km from Ségou. The village is known for rice production. Today, […]
Mali: Women process rice to reduce post-harvest losses
Mrs. Assétou Diallo Traoré is a 56-year-old woman and mother of five children. She lives in Sévaré, in the Mopti […]
Rice seed preservation
Based on hard real-life experience, the women of Maria village (in India) have devised some very effective techniques for seed […]
Flood-tolerant rice
Flood-tolerant rice is a solution for flood-prone areas. This video takes a closer look at how to select suitable rice […]
Rice production and post-harvest activities
One of this edition’s stories from Mali shows how one way to reduce post-harvest losses of rice is to process […]
Kenya: Rice farmers use ocean tides to boost production (InfoNile, Standard Media Group Kenya)
In the golden midday sun, Ozi village nestles in the tail end of the Tana Delta in Tana River County, […]
Nigeria: Loans from rice co-operative help members buy milling machines
It’s Thursday morning and Iorkumba Terfa has already opened the stall at his rice mill for business. The whir of […]
Nigeria: Improved rice varieties in high demand, fetch better prices
It’s about 10 o’clock in the morning and the rice mills are clanking so loudly that it’s hard to hear […]
Nigeria: Rice farmers benefit from keeping records
Luka Akolo smiles and joy spreads across his face. He is busy adding and subtracting different amounts so that he […]
Ghana: Rice farmers fail to control weeds due to influx of fake and substandard herbicides
The weather is windy and the sky is partly cloudy, with signs of an early morning rain. Wearing his Wellington […]