First Africa Rice Congress Presentations
March 2, 2007| |
Presentations from the first Africa Rice Congress held in Tanzania from 31 July to 4 August 2006 are now available online. Papers at the congress considered the issues of integrated pest management; socio-economics; natural resource management; technology transfer and rice breeding and crop improvement (including genomics and use of genetic markers).
The presentations are available at http://www.warda.cgiar.org/africa-rice-congress/presentations.html or contact warda@cgiar.org for more information.
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