NERICA—New Rice for Africa—is the product of interspecific hybridization between the cultivated rice species of Africa and Asia.

Rice breeders in West Africa have finally been able to combine the local-stress adaptation of African rice with the high yield potential of Asian rice.

The result is something that can revolutionize rice farming in Sub-Saharan Africa: rice that will produce a crop with minimal inputs in Africa’s stress-afflicted ecologies, and that will respond bountifully as soon as farmers have the means to apply additional inputs.

Click here: NERICA - New Rice for Africa

Click here: Africa Rice Centre

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