Dr. Maxwell Darko Asante, of the Crops Research Institute (CRI), Ghana is leading a research project funded by the International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) to improve resistance to the rice yellow mottle and blast diseases in all the popular aromatic varieties of rice in Ghana. Dr. Asante graduated from WACCI in 2013 and has since then released six rice varieties currently been grown in farmers fields in Ghana. In 2018, he received the Presidential Award, “National Best Agricultural Scientist” at the National Farmers Day. The current project will build resilience in the cultivated varieties of rice and increase productivity in farmers’ fields.
The West Africa for Crop Improvement (WACCI) is proud of the achievements of Dr. Asante
Dr. Maxwell Asante working in the screenhouse with a PhD student