This week Tom Randolph, Director of the CGIAR ‘Livestock-Fish’ Research Program announced that the Program “officially started on January 1st 2012, so we are off and running.”
La mécanisation est essentielle à la production et à la transformation de riz. Si les producteurs souhaitent intensifier leur production, ils doivent accélérer les opérations réalisées manuellement et à forte main-d’oeuvre. Par exemple, lors…
The International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) recently funded a project on feed enhancement for dairy value chains in India and Tanzania. The project will be implemented by ILRI with CIAT as a major partner. We are calling the project Milk…
Harvesting and threshing of paddy are serious bottlenecks for rice farmers. Large combine-harvesters are ill adapted to the rice fields of smallholders. Consequently, paddy may sit in the field for weeks or even months waiting to be harvested or thresh…
