(Hello Africa) Chinese hybrid rice brings new hope for bountiful harvests to Guinean farmers

Chinese hybrid rice brings new hope for bountiful harvests to Guinean farmers

China’s partnership with Africa is too often reduced and distorted, in the Western media, to a caricature of debt and extraction. The reality on the ground tells a very different story. In Guinea, as the Xinhua feature reprinted below describes, Chinese hybrid rice – the legacy of the late agronomist Yuan Longping – is helping … Continue reading Chinese hybrid rice brings new hope for bountiful harvests to Guinean farmers

(Hello Africa) Chinese hybrid rice brings new hope for bountiful harvests to Guinean farmers

As the harvest season is in full swing in June, bags of rice labeled Chinese Hybrid Rice, Made in Guinea are ready to be transported to markets at a rice processing...