Shattering the rice ceiling: Lonah Okumu’s 41 years in rice farming

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What you need to know: Lonah, a 63-year-old Kenyan farmer, transformed from a housewife to a successful rice farmer over four decades. Through education and adoption of innovative farming techniques, she increased her yields significantly, improving her family’s livelihood and educating her seven children to university level. Her success has inspired other women in her community to […]


Are we ready for the rice revolution?

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A revolution is not just a matter of state policy, quack attraction, forming committees or documenting scripted essays full of tantalising theories and rhetorics. It does not just occur but it is created, more of holistic implementations of pragmatic strategies for achieving a gigantic goal. Accordingly, the National Treasurer of Rice Farmers Association of Nigeria […]


CSIR-SARI showcases SRI technology to scale up climate-resilient rice production

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Botanga (N/R), Dec 27, GNA – The Council for Scientific and Industrial Research-Savanna Agricultural Research Institute (CSIR-SARI) has held a day’s visit for farmers at Botanga in the Kumbungu District to showcase its System of Rice Intensification (SRI) technology and potentials of recently released Rice Varieties. The field day was to determine the efficiency, and […]