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 …

Rice for Africa) rice varieties in Cote d'ivoire. …

Golden Rice has been genetically engineered to produce beta-carotene in the endosperm of the grain. It could improve … (DALYs). Golden Rice will not completely eliminate the problems of vitamin A deficiency, such as blindness or increased …"Golden Rice" ist Reis, der gentechnisch verändert wurde, um Beta - Carotin im Endosperm des Korns zu produzieren …

Recent efforts to develop rice cultivars with drought-tolerance (DT) traits have resulted in the release of several … are willing to pay even more for cultivars that offer yield advantages even under normal conditions. Rice farmers were …

. 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 …