Sierra Leone marked a major milestone in its agricultural transformation as His Excellency President Dr. Julius Maada Bio officially released two new climate-resilient rice varieties developed by AfricaRice during a high-level visit to the Sierra Leone Agricultural Research Institute
Through the KAFACI rice project implemented by The Korea-Africa Food & Agriculture Cooperation Initiative (KAFACI)-AfricaRice partnership, the 2025 KAFACI Africa Rice New Varieties has been recently released.
What's new
AfricaRice’s main research complex is located at M’bé, Côte d’Ivoire, on a 700-ha site that includes experimental farms covering major rice production systems, laboratories and a world-class genebank.
