The first ever National Rice Festival has opened at the Efua Sutherland Park, Accra. The two-day event of training workshops and local rice exhibitions formed part of the 8th General Assembly of the Ghana Rice Inter-professional Body (GRIB) - A national umbrella organization of rice stakeholders.
"GRIB is stepping up efforts to introduce new standards for the production of local-rice by the end of the year. This entails instituting quality-control mechanisms to ensure local-rice is produced to meet the international standards.
...
AllAfrica Subscription Content
You must be an allAfrica.com subscriber for full access to certain content.
You have selected an article from the AllAfrica archive, which requires a subscription. You can subscribe by visiting our subscription page. Or for more information about becoming a subscriber, you can read our subscription and contribution overview.
For information about our premium subscription services:
You can also freely access - without a subscription - hundreds of today's top Africa stories and thousands of recent news articles from our home page »
Already a subscriber? Sign in for full access to article