1. Conseil Régional des Riziculteurs du Mono Couffo
Web : http://crrmc.ilemi.net

2. Conseil Régional des Riziculteurs du Mono Couffo
THE BLOG
RIZICULTEURS DU MONO -
COUFFO
COMMUNICATION TOOL
Presented by :
Emmanuel S. ANAGO CODJO
Phone : +229-22410445
Professional email : crrmcop@yahoo.fr
Personal email : emmanuel.anago@gmail.com
Web : http://crrmc.ilemi.net
Web : http://crrmc.ilemi.net

3. Conseil Régional des Riziculteurs du Mono Couffo
OUT LINE
1. The blog owner
2. Communication tools
3. The blog : http://crrmc.ilemi.net
4. Objectives of your blog
5. Motivations to maintain/ update the blog
6. Perspectives
7. Challenges faced in developing and updating the blog
8. Impact of the blog
9. Visit and feedback from audience
10. Yobloco Awards incidence
Web : http://crrmc.ilemi.net

4. Conseil Régional des Riziculteurs du Mono Couffo
THE BLOG OWNER
Name : Conseil Régional des Riziculteurs du Mono-
Couffo
Creation date : september 2006
Actors : 12 UCR, 3200 Producers
Production : about 2 800 ha/an and 5 000 tons of
paddy
Type of organization: network of rice farmers which
works for professionalism and defend their
interests
Adress :
Lokossa, Republic of Benin
Email: crrmcop@yahoo.fr
Web : http://crrmc.ilemi.net
Web : http://crrmc.ilemi.net

5. Conseil Régional des Riziculteurs du Mono Couffo
COMMUNICATION TOOLS
• Village meetings
• Electronic journal ‘’Echos rizicoles’’
• Blog
• Web2.0 tools (facebook, twitter, …)
Web : http://crrmc.ilemi.net

6. Conseil Régional des Riziculteurs du Mono Couffo
THE BLOG : HTTP://CRRMC.ILEMI.NET
Web : http://crrmc.ilemi.net

7. Conseil Régional des Riziculteurs du Mono Couffo
OBJECTIVES OF YOUR BLOG
• Provide a window of visibility on the organization
• Report on activities and experiences of the organization
• Promote the rice sector and its actors
• Develop an exchange interface with actors of rice value
chain
EDITORIAL GUIDELINE
Disseminate activities of rice farmers of Mono-Couffo and
more widely news affecting rice in Benin
Web : http://crrmc.ilemi.net

8. Conseil Régional des Riziculteurs du Mono Couffo
MOTIVATIONS TO MAINTAIN/ UPDATE THE
BLOG
• Free hosting
• The pleasure of sharing information about our
experiences
• Need of mobilization of free advises
CHALLENGES FACED IN DEVELOPING
AND UPDATING THE BLOG
• Mobilization of relevant information
• Lack of human resources for animation of the blog
• Convince colleagues in the production of articles
• Control of spam and attacks
Web : http://crrmc.ilemi.net

9. Conseil Régional des Riziculteurs du Mono Couffo
PERSPECTIVES
As institutional blogger
•Develop a communication service for the benefit of rice
cropping
•Promote an information point on the marketing of rice
As individual blogger
•I launched my personal blog
•Mot de la faim : http://faimzero.ilemi.net
•Sharing information about agriculture and action against
hunger
Web : http://crrmc.ilemi.net

10. Conseil Régional des Riziculteurs du Mono Couffo
IMPACT OF THE BLOG
On our activities
•Increased request of collaboration (call for papers,
workshop, exchange visit, supervision of students, ...)
•proactivity in research of specific information
•Increased of our activities in network
On other agric actors
•Restarting of 2 institutional websites previously
abandoned
– CCR-B : http://www.ccrb.bj
– FUPRO Bénin : http://www.fupro.org
Web : http://crrmc.ilemi.net

11. Conseil Régional des Riziculteurs du Mono Couffo
VISIT AND FEEDBACK FROM AUDIENCE
• Too few comments and participation
from readers (case of rubric
‘’Opinion’’)
• Responses received are requests for
collaboration and congratulations
• Visitors use preferably the rubric
''Actors and actions'' and ''Library
(capitalization paper in particular)’’
Statistics provided by SPIP
Web : http://crrmc.ilemi.net

12. Conseil Régional des Riziculteurs du Mono Couffo
YOBLOCO AWARDS INCIDENCE
• On average 19 visits a day (16 before
YoBloCo Awards)
• Nearly 2000 visitors since YoBloCo
Awards started
• Ardyis.cta.int is the 3rd incoming link
to the blog and 50% of the incoming
link in one day
Statistics provided by SPIP
Web : http://crrmc.ilemi.net

13. Conseil Régional des Riziculteurs du Mono Couffo
A VERY
YOUNG RICE
FARMER TELL
S YOU THANK
YOU!
Web : http://crrmc.ilemi.net