On 23 June,
the Sahel Station held a Field Day at its research farm in Fanaye, northern
Senegal, welcoming 60 participants from farmers’ associations, ISRA, Société
d’Aménagement et d’Exploitation des terres du Delta et des vallées du fleuve
Sénégal et de la Faléme (SAED), Centre National de Recherche
Agronomique et de Développement Agricole (CNRADA, Mauritania), the University of Thies,
Université Gaston Berger, NGOs and private seed companies. On show were
AfricaRice’s breeding and agronomy trials.
