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African farmers develop their own rice cultivars

African farmers develop their own rice cultivars

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Date of publication
December 2009
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ISBN / Resource ID
Rural21-Vol:44-Nr:1/2010-Article:11
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Nerica – New Rice for Africa is the name of the great biotechnological success in rice breeding. What scientists created in the lab using modern methods, namely hybrids of African rice and Asian rice, had already come into being decades ago by chance in West African ?elds.

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Authors and Publishers

Author(s), editor(s), contributor(s)

Edwin Nuijten
Robbert van Treuren
Paul C. Struik, Alfred Mokuwa
Florent Okry
Béla Teeken
Paul Richards

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