African Rice Challenge Initiative launched

The
Rice Challenge Initiative launching meeting was held in Montpellier, France in
13-15 Apr 2010. This 4-year project, funded by the Generation Challenge
Programme (GCP) and led by AfricaRice, focuses on breeding for drought
tolerance in the rainfed lowland ecosystems in Burkina Faso, Mali and Nigeria.





The
main objective is to develop cultivars possessing high-yield potential in
normal