Daily Archives: May 3, 2013

Tanzania – Using rice to rise above poverty line in Kilimanjaro

Source: All Africa29/04/2013 – Rice is a farm produce which seems to slowly, but surely replacing Maize as common household staple in Tanzania and other East African countries and in the process, it also transform lives in Same District of Kilimanjaro.

Nigeria – Rice industry in Turmoil as smuggling booms in Nigeria

Source: Channels TV29/04/2013 – A new group of local growers and importers of the commodity calling themselves the “Patriotic Rice Association of Nigeria, PRAN” said in Abuja on Monday that “massive and incessant smuggling of Nigeria had thrown the rice industry into turmoil with severe consequences for government revenues, the economy and future plans for rice…