AreaCôte d'Ivoire

Commodity GroupRice

CommodityAll

Date26/04/2020

Policy CategoryProduction

Policy InstrumentProduction support

DescriptionAnnounced 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.