NERICA has brought me a lot of things, lots of money. Like this year, I got 400 000 Francs; that means 60 bags of rice, I sold and I made 400 000 Francs. With that money, I bought food, paid school fees for my children and paid for the stitching of trousers and shirts. I have also used the cash to extend our house. I have seen that NERICA is very profitable, gives a lot of money to a man. Earlier I used to grow cotton, but I abandoned it when I saw that to have NERICA is to be a man.

Lema Seylou
NERICA farmer from Togo

From the cash we got after selling the rice, I help my husband in providing food for my children and to pay their school and medical fees, and also to buy clothes for them. Therefore, growing these rice varieties is a very profitable activity, which brings enough revenue to my husband and me.

Abeba Allasane
NERICA farmer from Togo

Our traditional rice is a long-duration variety, which takes 4-5 months to mature and if we grow NERICA, in 3 months we have the harvest. This can help us fight hunger. NERICA is very valuable in the hungry season, because it is ready to be harvested, while the traditional rice is not yet mature.

Doto Leontine
NERICA farmer in Benin

“A major outcome of Asia-Africa cooperation has been the development of the New Rice for Africa (NERICA), which has produced, through joint research, a high-yield variety of rice that has the potential to address the problems of food insecurity in a number of West African countries”. 

Ibrahim Gambari
Under-Secretary General and Special Adviser on Africa,
The United Nations

Since I started to grow this rice, I no longer buy rice on the market. With NERICA, I can feed my family, pay my kids' school fees and be sure of having food all year.

Mamady Douno
NERICA farmer in Guinea

Since 1997, I’ve been growing this new rice, which brings me a great deal and allows me to support the family better. It enabled me to send two of my children to school. It’s easier to grow than our local varieties, because a little water is all it takes and you earn a lot of money.

Kabinet Traoré
NERICA farmer in Guinea

It’s a rice that enables me to bridge the gap between two local crops, because it falls between them. I have two wives and 17 children who are almost all going to school. Nerica is a great help to me in taking care of all these people.

Famoro Camaro
NERICA farmer in Guinea

The grains are small and white and swell better when they are cooked. With Nerica, the whole family is happy with the meal.

Mrs. Kouta Kamara
NERICA farmer in Guinea

It’s from working the land that I derive everything: food, clothing, the cost of schooling for my children. I’m in the course of building another house just beside the one I live in. I already have the corrugated iron, the cement and all the other materials. It’s thanks to growing Nerica that I’ve been able to obtain all that.

Layba Camara
NERICA farmer in Guinea

When traders come and look for rice they mostly want Suparica 2 (NERICA).

NERICA farmer in Uganda

I was impressed. Suparica 2 (NERICA) did better than the old rice. Buyers were running after it. 

NERICA farmer in Uganda

The rice has changed our living. Our incomes have increased. We have bought clothes, a house and a bicycle.

NERICA farmer in Uganda