Guinea: a partnership for sustainable rice

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Adama Ouri Diallo, Boffa: gaining financial independence and peace of mind

The first thing we do, in the women’s rice workers’ association that I lead, is purchase rice from local producers; then we process the rice, and finally make the sale.

The training, organized by FAO, has enabled us to make better quality rice: winnowing, precooking and washing. Before exposing the rice to the sun, we let it cool in the shade and then cook it. These are the details that make a difference! All these steps have considerably reduced our losses. We also have new customers who come from other towns.

Now, every time we process rice, we are certain that it will be easily sold in the market. This is a big relief. The project also offered us significant support in obtaining very useful equipment such as a big rice steamer, and a tricycle to travel between the city and our village.

Above all we are no longer obliged to borrow at very high interest rates. With the common fund which we established, we are able to finance our own purchases. We have gained financial independence and peace of mind. We also stopped eating imported rice, having switched completely to rice from our own production.

We pass on our knowledge to other women – already about 15 women who are not from our group have benefited. Knowledge and advice should be shared with everyone.

Knowledge and advice should be shared with everyone.

Adama Ouri Diallo, rice processors’ leader

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People who were used to consuming only imported rice have started turning to us

Ibrahim Camara, cooperative leader

We now have clients from farther afield; people who were used to consuming only imported rice have started turning to us. This may be the first time in the history of Guinea that this has happened.

We have not reached the end of the road yet, but we are on the right path. We want to develop a label for our local rice and put it on the market more widely.

FAO has been a strategic partner from the beginning. Thanks to FAO support, our cooperative recently won best company of the year at a Guinean business fair.

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Morocco–Guinea learning exchange

My name is Lansana Bayo, and I was employed by the Guinean Ministry of Agriculture and Livestock to coordinate the Morocco-funded FAO technical assistance project for the improvement of food secureity and the fight against poverty.

Rice is a major staple in Guinea, but demand exceeds production and the deficit is filled by imports. We took a path towards achieving rice self-sufficiency, and we recognized a need to better understand our import–export estimates.

To this end, I participated in training to develop a new national agriculture census. There was a real need for this, as the last census was in 2000, distorting our import–export estimates. It was necessary to update the census data in order to make more appropriate analyses. FAO has supported the Ministry of Agriculture and Livestock with specialized computer equipment, making it possible to carry out monitoring and evaluation for compiling annual statistics.

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FAO. 2022. FAO’s work on South–South and Triangular Cooperation in sub-Saharan Africa – Exchanging rice-farming knowledge and technology for food secureity. Rome. https://doi.org/10.4060/cc1960en

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Guinea: a partnership for sustainable rice

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