Abstract
All of Africa’s known deepwater rice is in West Africa. Although it represents only about 5 per cent of the world’s total acreage, deepwater rice is nevertheless an important crop to several hundred thousand farmers, especially in Mali, Guinea and Nigeria.
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Catling, D. (1992). The Niger Basin and West Africa. In: Rice in Deep Water. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-12309-4_23
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