ARICA 1

ARICA – Advanced Rice Varieties for Africa

 

ARICA 1 WAB 2094-WAC 2-TGR 2-B

•Rainfed Lowland

•High yielding over the best check (NERICA L19, BW 348-1)

•Suitable country (Mali, Burkina Faso)

•Mali proceeds to variety release processes

 

A new generation of high-performing rice varieties has been launched by the Africa Rice Breeding Task Force under a new brand called “ARICA” – which stands for “Advanced Rice Varieties for Africa.”

 

The Breeding Task Force comprises international and national rice breeders from 30 African countries and operates as part of the Japan-funded project “Developing the Next Generation of New Rice Varieties for Sub-Saharan Africa and Southeast Asia.”

 

Criteria of ARICA (Advanced Rice Varieties for Africa)

•Need to have advantages over the best check varieties in a region

•Advantages claimed should have clear basis of data accumulated in the prior trials, to ensure credibility of descriptions of a new variety.

•Evaluated in Breeding Task Force trials

•No need to go through all phases, if one decides to go through variety release system of a country

 

Procedure of nomination of ARICA

•AfricaRice shares data of trials with NARS partner.

•Based on the data provided together with their own, NARS select breeding lines to proceed to variety release in the country and inform AfricaRice of its decision.

•AfricaRice analyses all available data on the lines to be released and decides on ARICA nomination by communicating with the NARS.

•At the annual meeting of the Breeding Task Force, NARS will update on performance and characteristics of ARICA lines and status of variety release.

 

Nomenclature

•No subtitle for environment

•Depending on the order of nomination, a new variety will receive the ARICA name if it fulfills all the criteria. The name does not indicate any ecology. e.g. ARICA 1 can be for any ecology

 

Photo : R.Raman, AfricaRice

 

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