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Rice farming: ECOWAS activates a new action plan to boost the sector

12/08/2021
Categories: Raw materials

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The Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) held, on Wednesday August 11, 2021, by videoconference, a press conference with the aim of making public the elements of strategic orientation to boost the local rice sector. in west Africa. This new action plan called "Rice Offensive" will reduce the significant gap between demand and supply of rice to achieve self-sufficiency in 2025.

Most West African countries continue to face a dire dependence on rice imports as demand for rice exceeds supply. To reverse this trend, the ECOWAS community has developed an initiative to revive the rice-growing economy in the area in a sustainable and sustained manner. Indeed, following a mid-term evaluation of the initiative in February 2020, the Directorate of Agriculture and Rural Development of the ECOWAS Commission (Dard/ECOWAS), developed a Regional Action Plan to accelerate the implementation of the ECOWAS Rice Offensive. The initiative called “Rice Offensive” was conceptualized as one of the flagship programs to operationalize the agricultural policy of ECOWAS. In addition to its objective, it is also, according to ECOWAS officials, a regional response to support national rice development strategies (NRDS) in order to achieve rice self-sufficiency in here 2025. According to the actors, this action plan will serve as a complement to the Ecowap/Caadp which is the agricultural policy of the 15 member states of ECOWAS.

According to ECOWAS, while total rice production in the 15 countries increased from 8.63 MT in 2010 to 13.72 MT in 2019, rice consumption increased by 35%, faster than expected with nearly 15 .83 MT of rice consumed in 2017 alone. The rice yield growth rate of 1.03% per year does not correspond to the population growth rate of 2.73%, the regional institution points out. Many actions will have to be carried out in terms of production, market, industrialization, research, investments, capacity building.

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