Stories tagged: rice

Congo-Brazzaville: Produce your own rice in anticipation of rising prices and food insecurity

John Ndinga-Ngoma | July 10, 2023

It’s mid-day in the Loussala neighbourhood in eastern Pointe-Noire, Congo-Brazzaville, and Jean Jacques Mouanga’s family has finished eating lunch. Ismaël […]

Rice production

admin | July 10, 2023

Rice is a staple crop around the world. Use these resources to learn more about best practices for growing and […]

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 […]