{"id":155822,"date":"2026-08-09T08:00:11","date_gmt":"2026-08-09T08:00:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=155822"},"modified":"2026-08-09T08:00:11","modified_gmt":"2026-08-09T08:00:11","slug":"how-chinas-magic-rice-seeds-are-transforming-the-fortunes-of-nigerian-farmers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=155822","title":{"rendered":"How China\u2019s \u2018magic\u2019 rice seeds are transforming the fortunes of Nigerian farmers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Source: China &#8211; South China Morning PostJust outside the Nigerian capital Abuja, where Green Agriculture West Africa Limited (Gawal) is based, locals do not refer to the company by name, instead as the place where the Chinese supply \u201cmagic\u201d rice seeds.<br \/>\nAhmed Yusuf, 42, credits the seeds with turning around his rice business for good. Before Gawal, Yusuf\u2019s yields averaged just 2 tonnes per hectare, putting him on the verge of forsaking farming after more than a decade of toiling.<br \/>\n\u201cEach year I was making losses, and I couldn\u2019t meet the&#8230;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/news\/china\/diplomacy\/article\/3363433\/how-chinas-magic-rice-seeds-are-transforming-fortunes-nigerian-farmers?utm_source=rss_feed\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"feedzy-rss-link-icon\" rel=\"noopener\">Read More<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: China &#8211; South China Morning PostJust outside the Nigerian capital Abuja, where Green Agriculture West Africa Limited (Gawal) is based, locals do not refer to the company by name,&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/155822"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=155822"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/155822\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=155822"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=155822"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=155822"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}