Green Super Rice for the Resource Poor of Africa and Asia Phase III

COUNTRY/REC Nigeria

RESEARCH COVERAGE Multi-country

RESEARCH PERIOD March 2016 - February 2019

RESEARCH SITE

Implementing agencies, partners, and budget (USD)

# Agency / Partner Budget
1 AfricaRice
2 China-CAAS-Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences 0.00

Research scheme and budget (USD)

Research budget (USD) Rice component share (%) Rice component budget (USD)
Technical Assistance 0 0 0
Grant 116,667.00 100 116,667.00
Loan 0 0 0
Governmental 0 0 0
Other 0 0 0
Total 116,667.00 - 116,667.00
Multi-country Total 700,000.00 100 700,000.00

Research Objectives

To develop GSR inbred and hybrid cultivars for the target African and Asian countries by shuttle molecular breeding strategies

Research Outputs

Breeding

RICE Approach: Areas of contribution by the research

Resilience Industrialization Competitiveness Empowerment
R1: Area under irrigation
I1: Capacity of industrial mills
C1: Share of local rice
E1: Access to financial services
R2: Quantity of resilient seeds
I2: Mechanization ratio
C2: Quantity of high-yielding seeds
E2: Access to technical services

SIEM

Policy / Institutional Infrastructure Human Resource Capacity Provision of Equipments or services Knowledge / Research
Seed
Fertilizer
Irrigation / water management
On-farm technology transfer
Mechanization
Quality Improvement
Access to market
Access to credit
Overall policy tools

Crosscutting

Women

Youth

Nutrition

Climate Change

Food system