We are delighted to invite you to the 10th International Conference on Rice for Food, Market and Development to be held on 9-11th July 2024, Abuja- Nigeria.
Since 2011, rice-Africa Congress has been providing the needed platform that linked stakeholders to share information and create synergies to support the rice sector; to increase farmer/processor income; economic growth of the rice value chain and prioritizing and stimulating interventions to increase competitiveness.
The 10th rice-Africa Congress will consolidate on the achievements of the previous rice-Africa Congresses and focus on practical steps to increase production volume, improving quality and developing new market channels through creating access to improved seeds, fertilizer, irrigated land, credit, improved processing, initiating effective marketing and distribution and improving the social capital of the processors. The focus is to minimise the gap between the quality of imported rice and locally processed rice. The Congress will bring together relevant stakeholders, development partners and relevant government agencies and department to achieve its objectives.
It will equally feature exhibition by rice producing states as well provide avenue for stakeholders in the rice sector to interact for the desired business deals for development. The theme for this year’s conference is “CLIMATE-SMART AGRICULTURE IN SUSTAINING RICE REVOLUTION IN AFRICA.
rice-Africa is certainly the target destination for Africa’s agricultural decision makers and practitioners in governments, public and private agriculture and corporate HRD. In order to ensure broad based developmental benefits from rice-business the conference will bring together a large number of development and research practitioners from Africa, South Asia, India and China to discuss the above identified issues. It is proposed that the conference will be developed through a plenary session at which Nigeria Minister of Agriculture and Food Security, Senator Abubakar Kyari will give a welcome address and commissioned speakers from the region will share their experiences and discuss how such lessons could be usefully applied in other regions and systems. Subsequently the meeting will develop itself through several parallel satellite workshops that deal with the specificities of the requirements and needs for rice value chains development (Rice Producers, Millers, Grain Merchandisers, Equipment manufacturers, Exporters, Importers, Traders, Brokers, Freight Brokers, Importers, Fertilizer and Agro-chemicals Suppliers, Seed Suppliers and Scientists) in Africa.