In an effort to improve rice production in the country, Syngenta Foundation for Sustainable Agriculture (SFSA), has disclosed plans to deploy rice production technology from China.
The head, of Agricultural Services Operations, SFSA, Robert Berlin, while speaking at a high-level stakeholders’ workshop organized by the Foundation in collaboration with Derftdan Resources, stated that they were working towards translating China’s successful value chain technologies and practices into approaches that can be adopted in the Nigeria rice production.
According to him, the aim of the workshop was to validate the assessment carried out by SFSA and Derftdan Resources to strengthen the rice value chain and analyze the study recommendations for the rice value chain.
The Nigeria’ Country Program Manager, SFSA Mr Isaiah Gabriel, noted that the goal of the study conducted by the two organizations was to provide an overview of rice production, post-harvest processing and marketing segments and to address the inefficiencies in the entire supply chain.
