Unit operation Harvesting

Threshing

Drying

Current practices - Colour of panicles - Labour availability - Availability of equipment - Dryness of grains (by biting) - Soil conditions - Sickle / machettes - Knives - Combines - Availability of drying and gathering surfaces - Heaping after cutting panicles - Manual threshing (various) - Tractors driven over paddy - Animal driven implements - Pedal (Non-motorised mechanical) threshers - Motorized threshers - Combines - Thresher-winnowers - Sun drying - Patio drying - Mechanical drying - Barn drying - Solar drying

Recommended technologies - Number of days after planting - Grain moisture content - Uniformity of panicle colour - Number of days after field draining - Mini combines - Reaper - Plant pools (custom hire systems) - Thresh immediately after harvest Appropriately scaled - Pedal (Non-motorised mechanical) threshers - Motorized threshers - Combines - Thresher-winnowers

Periodic turning and monitoring of MC of the paddy for the following: - Sun drying on elevated surfaces - Patio drying with cover - Appropriate mechanical drying - Barn drying - Solar drying Mini combines Appropriately scaled mechanical winnowers and destoners Hermetic bags and cocoons Well managed storage rooms / warehouses Appropriate non-hermetic bags Appropriate silos

Cleaning

Storage

Manual winnowing Mechanical cleaning equipment Combines Sacs and bags Wooden, plastic and metal containers Silos Mud and other local granaries Heaped panicles in homes

Processing Parboiling

Local metal and clay pots Drums Basins Local sieves and baskets Open fires and fuelwood Jute sacs Small to medium scaled

Small to medium scaled improved parboilers **Relevant training materials for ensuring good quality parboiled rice would be developed and shared with all interested parties

Milling

Grading Packaging

improved parboilers Large commercial parboilers Hand pounding Single pass engelberg hullers Double pass engelberg mills Mini rubber roll mills (mill-tops) Medium scale rubber roll mills Large scale friction and abrasive mills Graders integrated with mills Graders separate from mills Zero packaging Poly bags Jute bags Paper bags Scales and sealers

Improved appropriately scaled mills that produce milled rice of consistently good quality

Graders integrated with mills Graders separate from mills Appropriately branded and packaged using GMP according to the Codex regulations

By product utilization Straw

Husks

Burnt on field Incorporation into soil Animal feed Firewood Compost Beddings Basket and hat weaving Ropes Carbonized for fuel As drinking straw Animal bedding Briquettes Burnt at mills Domestic fuel material

Improving digestibility for animal feeding Improving composting technology Substrate for mushroom cultivation Improved carbonization technology ? Biogas generation Improved briquettes Packaging materials Bricks Substrate for mushroom cultivation Gasification (SL) Oil extraction Protein extraction Human feeding (dietary fibre) Briquettes Substrate for mushroom cultivation Improved animal feeding Improved animal feeding Fortified products Slower digesting products Beverages Non-wheat pasta products

Bran

Animal feeding Briquettes

Brewers mass New rice-based products

The work plans remain the same as agreed after the regional launch of the CIDA project in June. However, due to the directive by CIDA that field activities should not begin until the Project Implementation Plan has been approved, the calendar of activities has been thrown out of gear. Now that the PIP has been approved by CIDA, there is an urgent need for work schedules to be updated through consultation among in-country partners. The national project coordinators will be mandated to carry out field activities when AfricaRice finalizes the survey questionnaires in the very near future.

Country Cameroon

Availability of laboratory - Lab space available

Equipment needs To be sent to AfricaRice after confirmation with in-country partners To be sent to AfricaRice after confirmation with in-country partners To be sent to AfricaRice after confirmation with in-country partners To be sent to AfricaRice after confirmation with in-country partners To be sent to AfricaRice after confirmation with in-country partners To be sent to AfricaRice after confirmation with in-country partners To be sent to AfricaRice after confirmation with in-country partners

Manpower requirements - MSc (2) - PhD (2) - Candidates available MSc (2 in training) PhD (1) Candidate not available PhD (1 in training) MSc (2) Candidates not available PhD (1 in training) MSc (1) Candidate available PhD (1) MSc (1) Candidates not available PhD (2) MSc (2) Candidates available PhD (2 in training) MSc (!) Candidate available PhD (I in training, I needed) MSc (2) Candidates available PhD (2) MSc (2) Candidates

Sierra Leone

Lab space available

Ghana

Lab space available

Nigeria

Lab space available

Gambia

Space needed

Senegal

Lab space available

Mali

Lab space available

Benin

Lab space available

Uganda Lab space available To be sent to AfricaRice after confirmation -

with in-country partners

available