AfricaRice’s new Country Representative to Liberia, Mr. Moustapha Gaye. (Photo Credit: George A. Harris, AfricaRice)   Africa Rice Center (AfricaRice) , a pan-African Center of Excellence for rice research, development and capacity building, has appointed Mr. Moustapha Gaye as new Country Representative to Liberia  and Coordinator of the EU-funded Seeds4Liberia Project, led by AfricaRice .     Mr. Gaye comes to the position with over 30 years of international development expe

Photo 1:  Ratoon rice from AfricaRice agronomic experimental fields in Madagascar (Credit: AfricaRice). Madagascar is the largest rice producer in East Africa, where transplanting is the most predominant method for rice cultivation. Depending on the location, farmers grow rice once, twice, or even three times annually. Growing multiple seasons, however, usually comes with heavy workload, because it requires ploughing the fields and transplanting seedlings after each harvest.