Madagascar Now Part of AfricaRice Center
August 6, 2010| |
"Rice is critical to our country's economy. We have joined AfricaRice Center because we realize that the future of rice production in the continent depends on this partnership," said Madagascar Minister of Agriculture Mamitiana Jaonina to AfricaRice Director General Papa Absoulaye Seck. AfricaRice Center is one of the 15 international centers supported by the Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research.
As the biggest per capita consumer of rice in the world, Madagascar needs to boost production as it imports about 200,000 tons of rice annually. In collaboration with AfricaRice Center, the country has greatly benefited from a Participatory Learning and Action Research for Integrated Crop Management project. Farmers' fields in northern Madagascar have doubled average rice yields.
The Center was created in 1971 by 11 African states as an autonomous intergovernmental research organization. It has a current membership of 24 countries covering West, Central, East and North African regions.
See AfricaRice Center's press release at http://www.africaricecenter.org/warda/newsrel-madagascar-aug10.asp
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