Area
Côte d'Ivoire
Commodity Group
Rice
Commodity
All
Date
26/04/2020
Policy Category
Production
Policy Instrument
Production support
Description
Announced that, in response to the COVID-19 outbreak, it would launch an Emergency Rice Programme 2020, with the aim of facilitating production of an additional 500 000 tonnes of rice. The initiative would envisage sustaining farm mechanization and distributing sanitary kits, as well as high-yielding certified seeds, fertilizers and other agro-chemicals to producers, and mandating rice purchases from leaders of rice development poles.
