IRRI: Rice in Africa for rural incomes and an affordable urban staple

[irrivideo]

Carolina Gold is not GMO. Do your homework.

[thought2b]

beware of this GMO rice, African ! 

[Quranite]

West Africans were brought to the US on the most part to grow rice. Sugarcane and cattle were the main crops in the Carribean and south America. Part of the West African was known as the rice-coast. They have been growing rice for longer than even 500 years. An african breed of rice which made the Carolina's famous is called Carolina Gold.

[irrivideo]

Yes, there is a Carolina Gold Rice Foundation. There will be an article about Carolina Gold Rice in the upcoming issue of Rice Today magazine.

[lionzion22]

@Quranite

Longer than 500 years indeed. Try about 2,000 years.

[lionzion22]

@Quranite

...and just to add, Africans were brought to the Americas for a variety of reason. Rice was just one of them. I'd imagine no other group of people on earth would be more knowledgeable on cattle raising than Fulani (Masaai/Samburu were not part of the Atlantic slave trade).

[Quranite]

@lionzion22 Yes, I know and I said that in my post above. In the US, the primary impetus was the rice grown on the coast of the carolinas and GA. As the US developed other crops slave labor diversified more. But rice and shipping (up and down the coast and up and down rivers, in addition to construction) were the main initial uses for slaves in the US. Note that when I mentioned rice, I said the US, not all of the Americas.The Fulani are indeed adept at cattle husbandry.