SARD-SC rice component launches GEM parboiler facility for women processors
The SARD-SC project rice component in collaboration with AfricaRice and INRAB have installed energy efficient GEM rice parboiling technologies and innovations in the Malanville Innovation Platform (IP) in the irrigated rice ecology of northern Benin Republic. The formal launch of the Malanvile IP, which attracted almost 1000 women from the nooks and cranny of the country, witnessed the presence of policy makers such as the mayors of Malanville and Gaya, Niger, on 9, February 2016. It also provided additional policy ...
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The 2016 SARD-SC Project Management Unit retreat holds from 2-6 March 2016, at Denis Hotel, Abuja, Nigeria.
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SARD-SC project completes a new cassava processing center in Tanzania
The SARD-SC project’s efforts to promote the processing of cassava in Tanzania have received a major boost with the completion and handing over of newly constructed facilities for a training centre on cassava processing by the contractors on 27 January 2016. These included an equipment fabrication workshop, a cassava processing center and offices. The construction of the buildings, which are on the institute’s land donated by the Government of Tanzania in Kwembe, about 30 kms from Dar es Salaam, was funded ...
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Enhancing soybean production in Nigeria through the SARD-SC maize system
The IITA/SARD-SC maize system soybean production enhancement planning workshop was held from 1-4 February 2016 in Abuja to sensitize and promote soybean cultivation and utilization in Nigeria. The workshop became imperative because of a huge demand for soybean in the country of 2.2million metric tonnes, annually while annual production is 600,000 metric tonnes. Therefore, there is the need to bridge this huge gap. To brainstorm on the strategies to enhance soybean cultivation, eminent soybean scientists from Research Institutes, soybean farmers, ...
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