The participants of AfricaRice annual meeting on "Rapid Mobilization of Alleles for Rice Cultivar Improvement in Sub-Saharan Africa" paid a courtesy call to NARO President, Dr. Tokio Imbe on April 26, 2017. The AfricaRice delegation included Dr. Gary Atlin (BMGF USA), Dr. Koichi Futakuchi (AfricaRice Cote d'Ivoire), Dr. Venuprasad Ramaiah (AfricaRice Nigeria), Dr. Mamadou Fofana (AfricaRice Nigeria), Dr. Mounirou Sow (AfricaRice Nigeria), Dr. Mohammed Bashiru (NCRI Nigeria), Dr. Susan McCouch (Cornell Univ), Dr. Ajay Kohli (IRRI), Dr. Naoki Yamamoto (IRRI) and Dr. Sun Jian (SAU China). The meeting was held on April 26-28, 2017 at the Tsukuba Innovation Plaza.
