Seminar 3. (Proceedings) Socio-economic aspects of rice cultivation in West Africa, held at City Hall Monrovia, Liberia, 22-25 April 1974
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Seminar 3 Proceedings Socio economic aspects of rice cultivation in West Africa, held at City Hall Monrovia, Liberia, 22-25 April 1974: 216
1975
Document Number: 383013
The proceedings covered smallholder production, self-sufficiency, economics of rice milling, inefficiencies in market structure, etc. Individual papers of economic interest included the following: (1) the economics of traditional and semi-traditional systems of rice production in Sierra Leone, (D. S. C. Spencer); (2) some notes on smallholder rice production in Liberia, (C. E. van Santeen); (3) self-sufficiency in rice in the WARDA region, a model for specialization in paddy and rice production, (J. G. Vianen); (4) the regional specialization model: a tentative quantification for Liberia, (J. G. Vianen); (5) agricultural policies involving rice production in WARDA Countries, (G. A. Dadey) covers grading of exports, and price policies; (6) the economics of rice milling in Kwara and northwestern states of Nigeria: a comparative analysis, (S. A. Oni and J. K. Olayemi); (7) economics of small scale rice mills, (H. P. Rosenboom and R. E. Parker); (8) virtues of a modernized rice processing system for the West African region, (R. E. Parker); (9) inefficiencies in the rice market structure in Sierra Leone, (I. I. May-Parker); (10) notes on feed in the WARDA countries, (B. M. Jellema); (11) the rice programme of the Nigerian national accelerated food production project, (E. B. Okoro); (12) the cost price of paddy in Senegal, (M. Tall).