Liberia: Africa Rice ends integrated rice-fish farming training

Africa Rice has recently held a three-day training workshop on an integrated rice-fish farming system in Fish Town, River Gee County. The training workshop is the first ever to be conducted under the European European (EU) - funded Integrated Rice-Fish Farming System (IRFFS) project in the southeast. The workshop brought together 39 household farmers from Maryland, Grand Gedeh, and River Gee Counties. The training workshop covered aquaculture production, rice production, and integrated rice-fish practices. Facilitators also taught participants the steps involved in land preparation and integrated rice-fish ponds construction. The recently - ended training workshop is one of the activities under the EU-funded DeSIRA Integrated Rice-Fish Farming System (IRFFS) project directed to enhancing household farmers' capacity. The DeSIRA-IRFFS project's overall objective is to improve food and nutrition security by transforming low-yielding, climate-risky traditional rice-fish production ...