Multinational - NERICA Rice Dissemination Project

The present intervention concerns the NERICA Rice Dissemination Project (NRDP) [Nigeria component]. It aims contribute to poverty reduction and food security in seven (7) West African countries (Benin, The Gambia, Ghana, Guinea, Mali, Nigeria and Sierra Leone). The NRDP should organize farmers of the project area into NERICA rice farmers’ groups and unions, in order to assist them in producing quality seeds and competitive commercial rice. They were to be provided with the necessary basic seeds, optimum rice production technologies, supervision, as well as experimentation, production and processing equipment and storage and product marketing infrastructure and post-harvest equipment. The project has four components, namely: a) technology transfer; b) production support; c) capacity building; and d) project coordination.