Rice a semi-aquatic grass species that comprises about twenty two species of the class Oryza, out of which twenty are wild. Thus, two classes or species of rice are essentially consumed by humans: Oryza sativa (Asian rice) and Oryza glaberrima (African rice) are the main food for about three quarter of the world population and […]
Weed management is one of the tedious operations in crop production. Due to labor costs, time and fully manual weeding is unfavorable. Hence effort is made to design an efficient farm equipment to perform weeding without electric power. The conception and key characteristics of simulation based design and the advantage of using it to design […]
USAID’s Integrated Initiatives for Economic Growth in Mali project (known as IICEM) works to stimulate economic growth by increasing agricultural productivity, improving linkages to markets, and facilitating rural finance. Among five selected value chains, IICEM works with rice in the northern regions of Mopti, Timbuktu and Gao in irrigated systems, and in the southern region […]