Paving the Way for the Spread of a New Rice Thresher-A contribution to improved rice quality in Nigeria

AfricaRice and its partners are developing technologies to address the mechanization bottleneck in African rice production, particularly for labor-intensive activities such as weeding, harvesting, threshing and winnowing. In collaboration with national partners and local manufacturers. AfricaRice has been adapting and introducing small-scale thresher–cleaners to various sub-Saharan African countries since 1997. In December 2013, AfricaRice introduced the Agricultural Transformation Agenda thresher–cleaner (ATATC) into Nigeria. A survey was carried out in October 2015 to assess the diffusion of the ATATC in Nigeria.