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October 14, 2017 4:22 PM
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نظام تكثيف الأرز System of Rice Intensification (SRI) الذي تم تطبيقة في مدغشقر من قبل العالم هنري دي لولاني Fr. Henri بالاشتراك مع منظمة غير حكومية - جمعية تيفي سينا (أتس) والعديد من صغار المزارعين في عام 1980م ينتشر الأن في العديد من البلدان في أكثر من 50 دولة تطبقة الأن في كل المحاصيل الحقلية بالاضافة الي الأرز. سري SRI هو "نظام زراعة " وليس "تكنولوجيا زراعية ". لأنه يقوم على رؤى أن الأرز لديه القدرة على إنتاج المزيد من الخلفات والحبوب والشتل في وقت مبكر وتوفير ظروف نمو مثلى للنبات ومنها ا) المسافات المثلي بين النباتات وبعضها، ب) وتوفير درجة الرطوبة المناسبة، ج) النشاط الميكروبي بالتربة ود) ظروف التربة الصحية الهوائية خلال مرحلة النمو الخضري لنبات الأرزبالتحكم في الري والتي يمكن من خلالها ان يحقق هذا الهدف وهذا ما أكدة كثير من العلماء لاحقا في مختلف البلدان التي يجري فيها إدخال النظام. ومع تصاعد أزمة المياه التي تلوح في الأفق لزراعة الأرز في الأعوام القادمة، لا بد من معالجة هذه القضايا في المنظور الصحيح والحصول على الحقائق العلمية من النظام الجديد سري SRI...
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August 14, 2017 2:16 PM
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(A case study of Uttar Pradesh State Rural Livelihood Mission (UPSRLM).. SRI (System of Rice Intensification) interventions:
Khiwli Kala village under Allahabad district was also selected for SRI intervention. About 65 women engaged from 15 SHGs; more than 2.5 hectare land used in SRI intervention. Five pragatisheel mahila kisan (progressive women farmers) were selected as community cadres for SRI intervention in the village. Only technical support and konoweeders are given from the project of free of cost.
"Confidence, happiness of smiling face has been clearly seen in Kusum Kali, who counted 24 tiller/kalla from one plant after 26 days of transplantation, which is the highest in the entire village. About 186 women also adopted vegetable cultivation, which are taken on experimental basis during the SRI interventions."
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August 1, 2017 3:38 PM
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"As climate and other conditions constrain agriculture, sustainable food systems will need to evolve, producing to the extent possible more output with less inputs. The System of Rice Intensification (SRI) is an agroecologically based methodology for crop management that raises yields by reducing rather than increasing inputs. This article explains with scientific justifications how it is possible to produce more food with less seed (lower plant density), less water, less fertilizer and agrochemicals, and often less labor. Lowering costs raises farmers’ incomes by more than their production increases. With SRI, reductions are made also in climate-change impacts and greenhouse gas emissions."
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June 2, 2017 1:14 PM
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Norman Uphoff is the Senior Advisor for the SRI International Network and Resources Center (SRI-Rice), a program at Cornell University engaged with the System of Rice Intensification (SRI), which is a climate-smart, yield-increasing agriculture methodology that is being utilized by more than 10 million smallholder farms in over 55 countries. ..."The ideas and practices that constituted our modern agriculture in the latter half of the 20th century will not, I am afraid, serve us equally well in this 21st century, which has very different and changing economic, social, institutional and environmental conditions. I see SRI and SCI as pointing the way to what could be characterized as a ‘post-modern agriculture,’ which is a needed advance beyond our present knowledge and practices. These ideas and methods are still evolving, but innovation is no longer coming just from scientific institutions and universities, but also from civil society and farmers themselves. This is both an exciting and a necessary shift in strategy."
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February 9, 2017 6:50 PM
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Here's the complete listing of all of the online material on SRI that we (SRI-Rice) found on our daily information quests during 2016. (News, research, videos, powerpoints, etc.) Click on the link and you will be surprised how much is out there!!
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January 5, 2017 1:25 PM
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Transforming the way the world’s largest food crop is grown has become Cornell University professor Norman Uphoff’s lifework, but success means convincing others it’s better than industrial agriculture.
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September 9, 2016 2:26 PM
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During 2015 and 2016, Buddhist Global Relief partnered with Oxfam America in the Central Rift Valley of Ethiopia to increase the productivity of vegetable crops (tomato and onion) by teaching farmers the System of Crop Intensification (SCI). SCI adapts SRI principles to crops other than rice resulting in increased productivity through the the use of efficient, climate-smart techniques.
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September 10, 2017 7:05 PM
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New Delhi, Aug 31 - The system of root intensification (SRI) has helped farmers increase significantly yield of mustard, experts said today, claiming that extensive use of the technique could bring down the country's growing edible oil import bill.
The technique adopted by some farmers in Odisha, Chhattisgarh, Rajasthan, Madhya Pradesh, Bihar and Jharkhand has led to as high as 57 quintal per hectare yield of mustard, said Kavitha Kuruganthi of the Alliance for Sustainable and Holistic Agriculture (ASHA). A deputy director of Madhya Pradesh's Agriculture Department, Rajesh Tripathi, said that the experiment has shown promising results in Umaria and Balaghat districts where it has been adopted by thousands of farmers. "We invited five farmers who used SRI technique to grow mustard and rice to train farmers. Now, this technique is being practised in 10 districts of the state," he said. India imports rapeseed-mustard worth Rs 70,000 crore annually which could be substantially brought down by putting in an effective extension system to promote SRI technique to increase yield in the country, Kuruganti said.
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August 9, 2017 5:49 PM
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"...The principals of SRI have been applied to other crops, like teff and wheat, under the umbrella term SCI – System of Crop Intensification. The founders of Lotus Foods suggested we look into how SCI might work with fonio. We learned enough to convince us that using SCI techniques will change the equation for smallholder fonio growers in the Sahel. We have just begun the process of exploring the adaptation of those techniques to fonio. We’ve connected some of the leading experts in SCI’s introduction to West Africa with our agronomist partners at SOS Sahel, the NGO that’s helping us establish the world’s first beneficial, commercial scale and grade fonio supply chain. We’ll explain more in future posts about how SCI can address some of the biggest issues we face in making the most of fonio’s potential. Stay tuned!"
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July 5, 2017 12:13 PM
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In distressed situations of drought and floods, tribal farmers of southern Bundelkhand region illustrated that System of Crop Intensification, an agro ecological method, helps build climate resilience. The socio-technical approach based on building upon the traditional knowledge and innovative capacities of farmers, proved to be effective in building climate resilient cropping systems.
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March 1, 2017 4:02 PM
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Sunil Kumar Ghadei (28), a management graduate is among the many young professionals who are slowly but surely making their way into the rural fields of Odisha with the commitment to bring in a change in the agri scenario of the State. ..
“We have been trying to restore the eroding indigenous farming practices and crop varieties through promotion of mixed, bio-diverse, improved crop production techniques such as the system of rice intensification (SRI) and system of crop intensification (SCI) and sustainable agriculture practices. The learning derived from these sessions will be used to conduct a series of awareness and training camps for small and marginal farmers on sustainable agriculture practices in different rural areas of the state,” explained Sunil.
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January 6, 2017 3:41 PM
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Gerald Aruna, ENGIM Internazionale, has modified the traditional planting method for the local krain krain leafy vegetable (Cochorus Olitorius) to use System of Crop Intensification (SCI) methods. Called "SKKI" (System of Krain Krain Intensification), the modifications use: Less seeds, more organic matter, wide spacing between plants, transplanting of young seedlings between 8 to 15 days old, and overhead shading. The crop is harvested twice, the first time by cutting / pruning branches of the plant at a point which leaves at least two other branches for fast re-growth and for collecting seeds at the end, so farmers can replant with their own seed. Weeding / earthing up / soil aeration of the crop is done every 7 days. This promotes robust root and plant growth and results in robust leaves as well as very big pods of seeds at the end to be harvested.
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November 9, 2016 3:21 PM
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A group of enterprising farmers in Haveri district, Karnataka, who have adopted the unique method of cultivation called 'Guli Vidhana (pit system)', have succeeded in doubling the yield of finger millet or ragi crop from one acre of land to 18-20 quintals. Some farmers have been inspired by System of Rice Intensification to use Guli Vidhana, which is similar to SRI [though the technique predates SRI].
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December 16, 2015 3:21 PM
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Rena Pérez reported on progress with the Sustainable Sugarcane Initiative (SSI, or SiCAS in Spanish), a methodology adapted from SRI principles. Two years after her 2012 presentation (see article) on SiCAS to Cuba's sugarcane industry, Perez learned of a sugarcane cooperative in Las Tunas that had adapted the SiCAS methods in a dry part of the island to use three-bud setts, which both reduced the required planting material and increased the yields...
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This article by Dr. Khaled Fathi Salem discusses the potential of SRI under Egyptian conditions.