A Netherlands development organisation, SNV, is supporting rice farmers and processors in the Northern Region to produce consumer-preferred rice varieties.

Rice farmers produce consumer-preferred varieties

Samuel Duodu Nov - 10 - 2015 , 00:20 0 minutes read

More than 3,000 rice farmers and 700 processors in the Northern Region are being supported to produce consumer-preferred rice varieties to substitute imports this year.

Under the sponsorship of SNV, a Netherlands development organisation, the project is expected to yield 8,500 tonnes of Jasmine rice, this year equivalent to 102,000 bags. That will increase the incomes of farmers and other actors in the rice value chain to GH¢4million.

Last year, the project supported 1,400 local rice farmers and 600 processors in the six project districts in the Northern Region to produce 25,000 bags of consumer-preferred varieties, which yielded GH¢1.2million as income for the farmers and other actors in the rice value chain.

The project is being implemented in the Savelugu/Nanton Municipality, Tamale Metropolitan Area, Tolon, Kumbungu, Sagnarigu and part of the East Gonja District.

Farmers Field Day

The SNV Rice Project Manager, Mr Zakaria Jalil, made thi