Commercial rice imports have accounted for approximately 61%, food aid in rice accounted for about 2%, and domestic … rice accounted for some 37% per annum of rice consumption in Ghana over the four years between 2000 and 2003. Compared to … the 1990s, these figures show a gradual decline in the share of local rice production in the total quantities of rice …

. The cropping-system is predominantly rice-based in the wet season and high-value cash crops are grown during the dry … scope economies in this environment. Results show that significant scope economies exist between rice and the major dry …-season crops of garlic and mungbean. Scope diseconomies exist between rice and maize. …

Nitrogen is a crucial input for the efficient production of rice and is generally applied in two split treatments …, before flooding the rice paddocks at sowing time and within a week after the beginning of the panicle initiation stage. There … of this study was to first value the information to growers provided by a nitrogen test for soils of rice paddocks and …

Commercial rice imports have accounted for approximately 61%, food aid in rice accounted for about 2%, and domestic … rice accounted for some 37% per annum of rice consumption in Ghana over the four years between 2000 and 2003. Compared to … the 1990s, these figures show a gradual decline in the share of local rice production in the total quantities of rice …

well managed. This is well illustrated by the case of Koussin-Lélé rice scheme in the central Benin. This paper apply … inequality indices and frontier production function to data from a sample of male and women rice farmers to analyze the gender …

This study identifies the reasons for low producer prices of rice that have not covered its production costs for many … years in Madagascar. The following points will be discussed: the farmers’ marketing conditions and the rural rice market … structure, including the functions of each intervening trader preceding rice distribution in urban centers. The study also …

hoarding practice in Western region of Kenya. Data from Egerton University’s Tegemeo Institute of Agricultural Policy and …

development of groundwater resources was begun. During the past decade, government policy has been reoriented towards private …