{"id":3842,"date":"2015-10-12T15:58:12","date_gmt":"2015-10-12T14:58:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/selfhelpafrica.org\/ie\/?p=3842"},"modified":"2016-12-21T14:44:41","modified_gmt":"2016-12-21T14:44:41","slug":"riceboost","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/selfhelpafrica.org\/ie\/riceboost\/","title":{"rendered":"Villagers rice business boost"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"x-section-1\" class=\"x-section specialpostheader bg-image\" style=\"margin: 0px 0px 0px 0px; padding: 00px 0px 00px 0px;  background-image: url(https:\/\/selfhelpafrica.org\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2015\/11\/rice-case-study-header2.jpg); background-color: transparent;\" data-x-element=\"section\" data-x-params=\"{&quot;type&quot;:&quot;image&quot;,&quot;parallax&quot;:false}\"><div id=\"\" class=\"x-container marginless-columns\" style=\"margin: 0px auto 0px auto; padding: 0px 0px 0px 0px; background: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0) linear-gradient(rgba(0, 0, 0, 0) 0%, rgba(0, 0, 0, .15) 70%, #000 140%) repeat scroll 0 center !important;\" ><div  class=\"x-column x-sm x-1-1\" style=\"padding: 10% 20px 2% 20px; \" ><hr  class=\"x-gap\" style=\"margin: 220px 0 0 0;\"><h2  class=\"h-custom-headline center-text man headings h2\" style=\"color: #fff;\"><span>VILLAGERS RICE<\/span><\/h2><hr  class=\"x-hr\" style=\"border-color: #dab525; border-width: 10px;   margin:  7px auto 12px auto; width:30%;\"><h2  class=\"h-custom-headline center-text man headings h2\" style=\"color: #fff;\"><span>BUSINESS BOOST<\/span><\/h2><div id=\"\" class=\"x-text center-text\" style=\"font-size: 130%; text-shadow: #5d6f7b 2px 2px 3px; margin: -2.5em 0em 0.2em !important;\" ><h4><span style=\"color: #ffffff\">A story from West Africa<\/span><\/h4>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><div id=\"x-section-2\" class=\"x-section\" style=\"margin: 0px 0px 0px 0px; padding: 45px 0px 45px 0px;  background-color: transparent;\" ><div id=\"\" class=\"x-container max width\" style=\"margin: 0px auto 0px auto; padding: 0px 0px 0px 0px; \" ><div  class=\"x-column x-sm x-1-1\" style=\"padding: 0px 0px 0px 0px; \" ><hr  class=\"x-gap\" style=\"margin: 30px 0 0 0;\"><\/div><\/div><div id=\"\" class=\"x-container max width\" style=\"margin: 0px auto 0px auto; 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border-width: 2px 2px 2px 2px; border-style: solid; border-color: #dab525; color: #dab525; background-color: #ffffff;\"><\/i><\/div><\/div><\/div><div class=\"x-feature-box-content \"><h4 class=\"x-feature-box-title\">Location<\/h4><p class=\"x-feature-box-text\">Tonte Village, Northern Togo, West Africa<\/p><\/div><\/li><li  class=\"x-feature-box left-text top-text cf\" style=\" max-width: none;\" data-x-element=\"feature_box\" data-x-params=\"{&quot;child&quot;:true,&quot;graphicAnimation&quot;:&quot;none&quot;,&quot;connectorAnimation&quot;:&quot;none&quot;,&quot;alignH&quot;:&quot;left&quot;,&quot;alignV&quot;:&quot;top&quot;}\"><span class=\"x-feature-box-connector full\" style=\"font-size: 55px; left: 0; right: calc(100% - 55px); border-left: 2px dashed #eaeaea;\"><\/span><div class=\"x-feature-box-graphic circle \"><div class=\"x-feature-box-graphic-outer circle\" style=\" margin-right: 20px;\"><div class=\"x-feature-box-graphic-inner circle\" style=\"font-size: 55px;\"><i class=\"x-icon-flag circle\" data-x-icon-s=\"&#xf024;\"  style=\"margin: 0 auto; border-width: 2px 2px 2px 2px; border-style: solid; border-color: #dab525; color: #dab525; background-color: #ffffff;\"><\/i><\/div><\/div><\/div><div class=\"x-feature-box-content \"><h4 class=\"x-feature-box-title\">Project<\/h4><p class=\"x-feature-box-text\"><b>Economic and & Ecological Resilience<\/b><\/br>Improving the food security and income of poor rural farmers in the isolated Northern Savannah region of Northern Togo.<\/p><\/div><\/li><li  class=\"x-feature-box left-text top-text cf\" style=\" max-width: none;\" data-x-element=\"feature_box\" data-x-params=\"{&quot;child&quot;:true,&quot;graphicAnimation&quot;:&quot;none&quot;,&quot;connectorAnimation&quot;:&quot;none&quot;,&quot;alignH&quot;:&quot;left&quot;,&quot;alignV&quot;:&quot;top&quot;}\"><span class=\"x-feature-box-connector full\" style=\"font-size: 55px; left: 0; right: calc(100% - 55px); border-left: 2px dashed #eaeaea;\"><\/span><div class=\"x-feature-box-graphic circle \"><div class=\"x-feature-box-graphic-outer circle\" style=\" margin-right: 20px;\"><div class=\"x-feature-box-graphic-inner circle\" style=\"font-size: 55px;\"><i class=\"x-icon-info circle\" data-x-icon-s=\"&#xf129;\"  style=\"margin: 0 auto; border-width: 2px 2px 2px 2px; border-style: solid; border-color: #dab525; color: #dab525; background-color: #ffffff;\"><\/i><\/div><\/div><\/div><div class=\"x-feature-box-content \"><h4 class=\"x-feature-box-title\">Areas<\/h4><p class=\"x-feature-box-text\">Enterprise Development, Agriculture and Nutrition, Gender<\/p><\/div><\/li><\/ul><hr  class=\"x-gap\" style=\"margin: 20px 0 0 0;\"><div id=\"\" class=\"x-text center-text\" style=\"\" ><p class=\"p-sans-med\">Your help is vital. <\/br>Click below to support this work.<\/p>\n<\/div><a  class=\"x-btn yellowbtn x-btn-flat x-btn-x-large x-btn-block\"  href=\"https:\/\/selfhelpafrica.org\/ie\/donate\"     data-options=\"thumbnail: ''\">Donate Now<\/a><hr  class=\"x-gap\" style=\"margin: 40px 0 0 0;\"><\/div><div  class=\"x-column x-sm x-2-3\" style=\"padding: 0px 0px 0px 0px; \" ><div id=\"\" class=\"x-text\" style=\"\" ><p class=\"p-sans-large\" style=\"text-align: left;\">For the women of Tonte village in the savannahs of Northern Togo, rice has become an important part of life.<\/p>\n<p>Rice first became commonplace in the regional when the UN distributed emergency rice rations during a series of food crises in the early years of the new millennium. Since then the grain has become as popular as maize and millet to the local diet. And its become much more than that for the people of Tonte.<\/p>\n<p><div  class=\"x-video embed\" ><div class=\"x-video-inner\"><iframe width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/cupMEC9Wa8k\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div><\/div><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><div id=\"\" class=\"x-container max width\" style=\"margin: 0px auto 0px auto; padding: 0px 0px 0px 0px; \" ><div  class=\"x-column x-sm x-1-1\" style=\"padding: 0px 0px 0px 0px; \" ><div id=\"\" class=\"x-text\" style=\"\" ><p>Today, thanks to support from Self Help Africa, 100 local households are earning a living from growing, processing, marketing and trading rice across the region. 91 of the farmers involved in the enterprise are women<\/p>\n<p>Villagers are using the additional income they are earning along different stages of the rice \u2018value-chain\u2019 to buy livestock, improve homes and send children to school. The evidence is plain to see.<\/p>\n<p>60 farming families in Tonte are producing rice commercially in a low-lying wetlands area close to the village, while a women\u2019s group has been formed that is parboiling and processing the grain into white rice, which earns a premium in the marketplace. The main sales are made in the regional capital Dapaong, which is 30 miles away, and the home of over 80,000 people.<\/p>\n<p>Involvement with this village-wide rice enterprise doesn\u2019t end with growing and processing either, for 10 women in Tonte have started a separate business producing and selling rice seed to others across the region, while mini-businesses have sprung up in the sale and transportation of rice by motorbike, in wider trading of brown and white rice, in milling, and in other related enterprises.<\/p>\n<p>Tomato, chilli, onion and other vegetables are grown by 20 local farmers in the rice paddies during the hot dry season. They use water available from boreholes that have been hand dug adjacent to the fields, although the wells do not provide a year-round supply, and are dry for as long as three-months, each year.<\/p>\n<p>The rice business in Tonte is booming, and in the past year a grain store and concrete drying area have been constructed to assist with the storage and processing of grain.<\/p>\n<\/div><div  class=\"x-entry-share\" ><p>Share this story<\/p><div class=\"x-share-options\"><a href=\"#share\" data-x-element=\"extra\" data-x-params=\"{&quot;type&quot;:&quot;tooltip&quot;,&quot;trigger&quot;:&quot;hover&quot;,&quot;placement&quot;:&quot;bottom&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;content&quot;:&quot;&quot;}\" class=\"x-share\" title=\"Share on Facebook\" onclick=\"window.open('http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fselfhelpafrica.org%2Fie%2Fwp-json%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fposts%2F3842&amp;t=Villagers+rice+business+boost', 'popupFacebook', 'width=650, height=270, resizable=0, toolbar=0, menubar=0, status=0, location=0, scrollbars=0'); return false;\"><i class=\"x-icon-facebook-square\" data-x-icon-b=\"&#xf082;\"><\/i><\/a><a href=\"#share\" data-x-element=\"extra\" data-x-params=\"{&quot;type&quot;:&quot;tooltip&quot;,&quot;trigger&quot;:&quot;hover&quot;,&quot;placement&quot;:&quot;bottom&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;content&quot;:&quot;&quot;}\" class=\"x-share\" title=\"Share on X\" onclick=\"window.open('https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=Villagers+rice+business+boost&amp;url=https%3A%2F%2Fselfhelpafrica.org%2Fie%2Fwp-json%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fposts%2F3842', 'popupTwitter', 'width=500, height=370, resizable=0, toolbar=0, menubar=0, status=0, location=0, scrollbars=0'); return false;\"><i class=\"x-icon-twitter-square\" data-x-icon-b=\"&#xe61a;\"><\/i><\/a><a href=\"#share\" data-x-element=\"extra\" data-x-params=\"{&quot;type&quot;:&quot;tooltip&quot;,&quot;trigger&quot;:&quot;hover&quot;,&quot;placement&quot;:&quot;bottom&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;content&quot;:&quot;&quot;}\" class=\"x-share\" title=\"Share on LinkedIn\" onclick=\"window.open('http:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/shareArticle?mini=true&amp;url=https%3A%2F%2Fselfhelpafrica.org%2Fie%2Fwp-json%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fposts%2F3842&amp;title=Villagers+rice+business+boost&amp;summary=For+the+women+of+Tonte+village+in+the+savannahs+of+Northern+Togo%2C+rice+has+become+an+important+part+of+life.+Rice+first+became+commonplace+in+the+regional+when+the+UN+distributed+emergency+rice+rations+during+a+series+of+food+crises+in+the+early+years+of+the+new+millennium.&amp;source=Self+Help+Africa', 'popupLinkedIn', 'width=610, height=480, resizable=0, toolbar=0, menubar=0, status=0, location=0, scrollbars=0'); return false;\"><i class=\"x-icon-linkedin-square\" data-x-icon-b=\"&#xf08c;\"><\/i><\/a><a href=\"#share\" data-x-element=\"extra\" data-x-params=\"{&quot;type&quot;:&quot;tooltip&quot;,&quot;trigger&quot;:&quot;hover&quot;,&quot;placement&quot;:&quot;bottom&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;content&quot;:&quot;&quot;}\" class=\"x-share\" title=\"Share on Pinterest\" onclick=\"window.open('http:\/\/pinterest.com\/pin\/create\/button\/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fselfhelpafrica.org%2Fie%2Fwp-json%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fposts%2F3842&amp;media=https%3A%2F%2Fselfhelpafrica.org%2Fie%2Fwp-content%2Fuploads%2Fsites%2F4%2F2015%2F10%2FRice-lady-in-togo.jpg&amp;description=Villagers+rice+business+boost', 'popupPinterest', 'width=750, height=265, resizable=0, toolbar=0, menubar=0, status=0, location=0, scrollbars=0'); return false;\"><i class=\"x-icon-pinterest-square\" data-x-icon-b=\"&#xf0d3;\"><\/i><\/a><a href=\"#share\" data-x-element=\"extra\" data-x-params=\"{&quot;type&quot;:&quot;tooltip&quot;,&quot;trigger&quot;:&quot;hover&quot;,&quot;placement&quot;:&quot;bottom&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;content&quot;:&quot;&quot;}\" class=\"x-share\" title=\"Share on Reddit\" onclick=\"window.open('http:\/\/www.reddit.com\/submit?url=https%3A%2F%2Fselfhelpafrica.org%2Fie%2Fwp-json%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fposts%2F3842', 'popupReddit', 'width=875, height=450, resizable=0, toolbar=0, menubar=0, status=0, location=0, scrollbars=0'); return false;\"><i class=\"x-icon-reddit-square\" data-x-icon-b=\"&#xf1a2;\"><\/i><\/a><a href=\"mailto:?subject=Villagers+rice+business+boost&amp;body=Hey, thought you might enjoy this! 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