The Rice Agronomy and Rice
Processing and Value Addition Task Forces were launched at AfricaRice temporary
headquarters in Cotonou, 15–18 November. The launch
workshop was attended by participants from 14 African countries. Issues
relating to mechanization are dealt within these two Task Forces.
By end 2011,
all of the Task Forces proposed in the Strategic Plan had become operational, with
the exception of the Mechanization Task Force, which is expected to become a
joint ‘working group’ of the Agronomy and the Processing and Value Addition
Task Forces.
