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Sylvester O. Oikeh
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Sitapha Diatta, Tatsushi Tsuboi and Tareke Berhe

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The timeliness and quality of land preparation are critical to ricenproduction. NERICA varieties are no exception. Good soil tillage practices generally enhance efficient fertilizer-use, soil porosity and aeration and then have positive impacts during germination, seedling emergence and stand establishment stages of plant growth, in addition to weed control.

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Rice; Crop Management
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Oikeh, O. Diatta, S. Tsuboi, T. Berhe, T. 2008. NERICA: the New Rice for Africa - a Compendium. Module 6.

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4.61M

Beneficiaries Reached

97000

Farmers Trained

3720

Number of Value Chain Actors Accessing CSA

41300

Lead Farmers Supported