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Nerica, the New Rice for Africa

Nerica, the new rice for Africa, will improve yields

Nerica stands for "new rice for Africa" and is a new variety developed by using biotechnology to combine African and Asian strains in order to increase yield. Investigating how new drugs could help the very widespread problem of herpes. How farmers in developing countries could be causing climate change. Into space with the Chinese.

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Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ World Service Archive

This programme was restored as part of the World Service archive project

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