Ghana
Ghana (/ˈɡɑːnə/), officially the Republic of Ghana, is a sovereign unitary presidential constitutional democracy, located along the Gulf of Guinea and Atlantic Ocean, in the subregion of West Africa. Spanning a land mass of 238,535 km2, Ghana is bordered by the Ivory Coast in the west, Burkina Faso in the north, Togo in the east and the Gulf of Guinea and Atlantic Ocean in the south.(Source: DBpedia)
JIRCAS Report
Senior Researcher Koide Junji Receives 18th Young Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries Researcher Award for 2022
JIRCAS Senior Researcher, Dr. Koide Junji of the Social Sciences Division, received the Young Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries Researcher Award for 2022 for his work on development of a versatile agricultural management planning model for small-scale farmers.
JIRCAS Publishes BFMgh and BFMbf, Support Programs for Farm Management Planning Targeting Ghana and Burkina Faso
The farm management planning support programs, Builder of Farming Model — BFMgh and BFMbf, have been developed and released to efficiently support decision making, including technology selection, by smallholder farmers in Ghana and Burkina Faso.
Information Analysis
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Pick Up554. Enhancing the Function of Water Facilities at the African Farmer Level
Sub-Saharan Africa imports increasing amounts of rice from Asia and North America each year to meet growing domestic rice consumption. In order to realize the goal of doubling rice production in Africa, it is essential to efficiently and sustainably cultivate rice in lowland areas. However, earth canals maintained with farmer-level technology are eroded by water runoffs and rainfall, reducing the function of the canals and making it impossible to plant rice. JIRCAS has prepared and released a manual that enables local farmers to construct low-cost irrigation facilities and maintain over the long term with their own technology. -
Pick Up536. Water connects you and Africa ~ SDGs and Agricultural Water Use
The JIRCAS Online Open House 2022 was held last month and the mini-lectures by research staff are archived on our YouTube channel. Today, we would like to introduce the mini-lecture entitled “Water connects you and Africa ~ SDGs and Agricultural Water Use”. -
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Publication
広報JIRCAS (10)
国立研究開発法人国際農林水産業研究センター, 広報JIRCAS. 10 ( )
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広報JIRCAS (9)
国立研究開発法人国際農林水産業研究センター, 広報JIRCAS. 9 ( )
jircas9-_-.pdf2.93 MB
JIRCASニュース(87)
国立研究開発法人国際農林水産業研究センター, JIRCAS News. 87 ( )
jircas_news-87_-.pdf2.98 MB
JIRCAS Newsletter(87)
Japan International Research Center for Agricultural Sciences, JIRCAS Newsletter. 87 ( )
jircas_newsletter-87_-.pdf2.38 MB
Soil Fertility Improvement with Indigenous Resources in Lowland Rice Ecologies in Ghana
Satoshi Tobita, Satoshi Nakamura, JIRCAS Working Report. 86 ( )
JIRCASWorkingReport86.pdf4.21 MB
Events
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Workshop on “Improvement of Soil Fertility with Use of Indigenous Resources in Rice Systems in Ghana.”
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International Conference Center University of Development Studies (USD), Nyankpala Ghana
Research Highlights
- Mitigating income stagnation and volatility in African smallholder agriculture using small reservoir irrigation technology and stochastic programming model(2022)
- A curve number estimation model to accurately calculate reservoir inflow(2022)
- Effect of non-flooded water management on inside-canopy temperature dynamics, spikelet sterility, and grain yield of lowland rice in the tropics(2020)
- Topographical selection and sulfur application enable high grain yields in rice in currently unutilized floodplain ecosystems of northern Ghana(2017)
- Reinforcement technology that can be applied by farmers themselves using ground-cover plants for irrigation facilities in paddy fields(2017)
- High-yielding and stable rice varieties in the flood plains of Upper Volta River in Ghana(2015)
- Manual of soil fertility improvement technologies in lowland rice ecologies of Ghana(2014)
- Limited Si-nutrient status of rice plants in relation to plant-available Si of soils, nitrogen fertilizer application, and rice-growing environment across Sub-Saharan Africa(2013)
- Topographic distribution of the soil total carbon content and sulfur deficiency for rice cultivation in a floodplain ecosystem of the Northern region of Ghana(2012)
- Manual for Improving Rice Production in Africa(2011)