USAID-Ghana rice project promoting food security, incomes

The US Agency for International Development, Ghana Mission (USAID-Ghana) is providing new technologies and improved seeds to boost rice production to promote food security and incomes in Upper West Region. The USAID five year funded “Feed the Future Ghana Agricultural Technology Transfer (ATT) project” is to increase the competitiveness of rice, maize and soybean value chains, fostering broad-based and sustained economic growth through the increase availability of agricultural technologies and increasing productivity in Northern Ghana. The Project has introduced Urea Deep Placement (UDP), rice transplanting, the provision of certified rice seeds, free fertilizers and planting on rolls technologies to dry season rice farmers at Daffiama to increase rice production The UDP application, involves placing urea briquettes at a depth of seven and 10 cm between four rice plants seven to 14 days after transplanting to improve nitrogen fertilization in irrigation rice systems.

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Neil Palmer/CIAT

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