Grain gains
poor farmers in Africa can now treble their rice yields at no extra cost. This has been made possible by hybrid plants that are suitable to African conditions. The hybrid combines in a single plant the hardiness of a long-forgotten native African strain with the high-yielding qualities of widely grown Asian plants, say rice breeders at the West African Rice Development Association's (warda) laboratories in Bouake, C
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