Research Proposals of the West Africa Rice Development Association (WARDA)

Abstract

Document describing organization, phasing, and financial requirements of WARDA's proposed work program to 1976. Division of WARDA's existing Agricultural Research Program into General Research, entailing the introduction, breeding, selection, and evaluation of new varieties, and Applied Research, consisting of training and extension to consolidate the activities of NARS directed at West Africa's four rice producing ecological zones: rainfed, swamp, mangrove, and irrigated rice. Agenda item presented at TAC Fourth Meeting, July-August 1972.