Mali Mali: Women adopt mechanized rice harvesting and drying to reduce post-harvest losses Cheick Bounama Coulibaly | March 19, 2023 Molodo is a village in central Mali, some 150 km from Ségou. The village is known for rice production. Today, […]
Mali Mali: Women process rice to reduce post-harvest losses Assivavi Agbogbe | March 19, 2023 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 admin | March 19, 2023 Based on hard real-life experience, the women of Maria village (in India) have devised some very effective techniques for seed […]
Flood-tolerant rice admin | March 19, 2023 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 admin | March 19, 2023 One of this edition’s stories from Mali shows how one way to reduce post-harvest losses of rice is to process […]
Kenya Kenya: Rice farmers use ocean tides to boost production (InfoNile, Standard Media Group Kenya) admin | June 24, 2022 In the golden midday sun, Ozi village nestles in the tail end of the Tana Delta in Tana River County, […]
Nigeria Nigeria: Loans from rice co-operative help members buy milling machines Florence Ugbem | May 30, 2022 It’s Thursday morning and Iorkumba Terfa has already opened the stall at his rice mill for business. The whir of […]
Nigeria Nigeria: Improved rice varieties in high demand, fetch better prices Florence Ugbem | September 13, 2021 It’s about 10 o’clock in the morning and the rice mills are clanking so loudly that it’s hard to hear […]
Nigeria Nigeria: Rice farmers benefit from keeping records Oladele Olaniyan | August 16, 2021 Luka Akolo smiles and joy spreads across his face. He is busy adding and subtracting different amounts so that he […]
Ghana Ghana: Rice farmers fail to control weeds due to influx of fake and substandard herbicides Gideon Kwame Sarkodie Osei | July 5, 2021 The weather is windy and the sky is partly cloudy, with signs of an early morning rain. Wearing his Wellington […]