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Ghana may become hybrid rice producing hub in West Africa before Nigeria

Strong indication has emerged suggesting that Ghana may soon become West Africa’s rice and cowpea producing hub following the development of nitrogen efficient rice and biological resistance cowpea by the Savanna Agricultural Research Institute and the Crop Research Institute of…

Virus, herdsmen attacks, flooding rubbish mileages covered in local rice farming—BHIU

A report released weekend by the Business Hilights Intelligence Unit (BHIU), on the status of Nigeria’s ongoing back-to-the-land scheme on rice production, has revealed three environmental factors crippling the rice backward integration drive of the federal government. These include “Recent…