Guinea - Speeding up Technology Transfer to Rice Growers

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dc.creatorWorld Bank
dc.date2012-08-13T09:46:44Z
dc.date2012-08-13T09:46:44Z
dc.date1998-12
dc.date.accessioned2026-07-01T01:29:58Z
dc.descriptionIn Guinea, improving the productivity of upland rice is a key challenge for the national agricultural services. Though rice is the main staple in Guinea, low yields make the country highly dependent on rice imports that it can ill afford. While the national agricultural research system (Institute de Recherche Agronomique de Guinee, IRAG), did not have improved technology available, the West Africa Rice Development Association (WARDA), located in neighboring Cote d'Ivoire, had made a major breakthrough. It was developing inter-specific rice varieties that combined the best characteristics of the high-yielding Oryza Sativa varieties of Asian origin with those of the hardy Oryza Glaberrima varieties indigenous to Africa. Though the results looked promising, the normal approach of first testing new varieties at research stations and only then releasing them for on-farm trials and then to extension will have taken years. To speed up the process, Guinea's national extension service (Service National de la Promotion Rurale et de la Vulgarisation) teamed up with IRAG in a pilot program that brought promising varieties from WARDA concurrently to evaluations on IRAG stations and to on-farm trials. The participatory pilot program was supported by the World Bank and the Special Program for African Agricultural Research (SPAAR).
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dc.identifierhttp://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/1998/12/13779426/guinea-speeding-up-technology-transfer-rice-growers
dc.identifierhttps://hdl.handle.net/10986/9879
dc.identifierhttps://doi.org/10.1596/9879
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/123456789/418647
dc.languageEnglish
dc.publisherWashington, DC
dc.relationAfrica Region Findings & Good Practice Infobriefs; No. 35
dc.rightsCC BY 3.0 IGO
dc.rightshttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/igo/
dc.rightsWorld Bank
dc.subjectAGRICULTURAL RESEARCH
dc.subjectAGRICULTURAL SERVICES
dc.subjectCOMMERCIAL SEED
dc.subjectCROP
dc.subjectCROPS
dc.subjectECOSYSTEMS
dc.subjectEXTENSION
dc.subjectEXTENSION AGENTS
dc.subjectFARM
dc.subjectFARMER
dc.subjectFARMERS
dc.subjectFERTILIZER
dc.subjectGERMPLASM
dc.subjectLIVESTOCK
dc.subjectNEW TECHNOLOGIES
dc.subjectREGIONAL CONTROL
dc.subjectRICE
dc.subjectRICE VARIETIES
dc.subjectSEED
dc.subjectSEED INDUSTRY
dc.subjectYIELDS
dc.titleGuinea - Speeding up Technology Transfer to Rice Growers
dc.titleGuinee : Accelerer le transfert des technologies aux producteurs de riz

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