JOSAN is a PPP scheme between the Government of Anambra State (10%) and Joseph Agro Industries (90%), formed in 2014. The task and mission of the company was to boost both paddy rice and milled rice production, both in Anambra State and in Nigeria. Josan started a pilot scheme in Ufuma, basically, resuscitating a former

Nearly 100,000 ordinary Chinese people went to pay tribute to Yuan Longping, “the Father of Hybrid Rice”, in front of the Funeral Home in Changsha, Central China’s Hunan Province on Sunday, placing flowers and leaving thank-you note on site. More people have reposted pictures of Yuan on social media to mourn the great agronomist who

Hybrid rice developed by Chinese scientist Yuan Longping and his team achieved record-breaking yields of 1,500 kilograms per mu (about 22.5 tonnes per hectare) in two growing seasons, according to the assessment results from a test field on Monday. The late-season hybrid rice yield in a field in Central China’s Hunan Province reached 911.7 kilograms

Anambra state is now counting the gains associated with the resuscitation and expansion of a moribund rice mill, under the Public Private Partnership, PPP venture. The mill was established in the state by the Federal Government as a federal project at Umumbo community in Ayamelum Local Government Area of the state, as far back as

AWKA- RICE production has received a further boost in Anambra State with the commissioning of JOSAN Integrated Rice Farms and Mills located at Enugwuabo, Ufuma in Orumba North local government area of the state. It is expected to add 90 metric tonnes of rice to the existing 250 metric tonnes currently being produced in the