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In Pursuit of an African Green Revolution - Views from Rice and Maize Farmers' Fields (Paperback, Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 2016)
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In Pursuit of an African Green Revolution - Views from Rice and Maize Farmers' Fields (Paperback, Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 2016)
Series: Natural Resource Management and Policy, 48
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This book explores recent experiences in the effort to bring about
a Green Revolution in Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA). The chapters focus
on rice and maize, which are promising and strategic smallholder
crops. Significantly, we find that an African Rice Revolution has
already begun in many irrigated areas, using Asian-type modern
varieties, chemical fertilizer, and improved management practices.
Further, we find that the same technological package significantly
increases the productivity and profitability of rice farming in
rainfed areas as well. We also find evidence that that management
training, when done well, can boost productivity on smallholder
farms. This suggests that African governments can accelerate the
pace of Africa's Rice Revolution by strengthening extension
capacity. The story for maize is wholly different, where most
farmers use local varieties, apply little chemical fertilizer, and
obtain very low yields. However, in the highly populated highlands
of Kenya, a number of farmers have adopted high-yielding hybrid
maize varieties and chemical fertilizer, as was the case in the
Asian Green Revolution, apply manure produced by stall-fed cows, as
was the case during the British Agricultural Revolution, and keep
improved cows or cross-breeds from European cows and local stock,
as was the case of the Indian White Revolution. We conclude that
while rice in Africa has benefited from an Asian Green Revolution
strategy that emphasizes modern seeds, inputs, and focused
knowledge transfers, the success of Africa's Maize Revolution will
require a different system approach based on hybrid maize, chemical
and organic fertilizers, and stall-fed cross-bred cows.
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