Get Started for FREE
Sign up with Facebook Sign up with X
I don't have a Facebook or a X account
 Your new post is loading...
Your new post is loading...
Scoop.it!
To achieve the target, the ministry will use the System of Rice Intensification (SRI), a plan in which farmers will increase productivity, quality and economic effectiveness, while reducing pesticides and nitrogenous fertilisers. 
No comment yet.
Sign up to comment
Scoop.it!
SRI methods have been raising paddy yields for farmers in Burundi from 1.5 t/ha on average to between 3 and 5 t/ha, depending on how many of the SRI practices are used, and how well they are used. Gilbert Bizimungu provided SRI extension material recently published by the Ministere de l'Agriculture et de l'Elevage: http://sri.cals.cornell.edu/countries/burundi/extmats/Burundi_Fiche_Technique_SRI_Minagrie_Fr2015.pdf
SRI-Rice's insight:
This update also links to a video produced in 2012 for IFAD and SRI-Rice by Flooded Cellar Productions that tells the story of SRI introduction, spread, methods and impact in Burundi and nearby countries.
Scoop.it!
Abeline Razanamamy is an elderly widow living in central Madagascar. She's maintained her independence by growing rice... a lot of rice. She applies a technique called the System for Rice Intensification, or SRI, which has more than doubled her yield.
SRI-Rice's insight:
This IFAD/SRI-Rice video, which was made by Flooded Cellar Productions, has been shortened and rereleased on YouTube's UN Expo channel.
Scoop.it!
Harouna Ibrahim, SRI technician with Africare, Timbuktu, Mali composed this SRI song. The song was recorded on July 9, 2011 in Goundam, Timbuktu Mali.
SRI-Rice's insight:
While not new, those of you who haven't heard this SRI song from Mali will not want to miss out!
Scoop.it!
Poster presentation at the 4th International Rice Congress, Bangkok, Thailand, Oct. 27-31, 2104. Authors: Nurul Hidayati, Triadiati, and Iswandi Anas Sukmasakti, and Rahayu Widyastuti
SRI-Rice's insight:
Under SRI cultivation, roots were significantly longer and their biomass was significantly heavier than for conventional management. More root hairs and healthier root hairs were observed on rice plants under SRI cultivation compared to conventional practice. Also, the numbers of aerenchyma (air pockets) in plant roots were seen to be less under SRI cultivation compared to conventionally-grown rice plants, while at the same time, the numbers of aerenchyma in plant stems were the same with both cultivation methods.
Scoop.it!
SRI-Rice's insight:
The report from the Workshop on Building Alliances Around the System of Rice Intensification (SRI) and Agroecology is now finished! The event was held October 27-28, 2014, at the Maple Hotel, Bangna, Bangkok, Thailand. Co-organized by Oxfam and SRI-Rice at Cornell University, the workshop had 51 participants from 16 countries. A longer version of the report is available by request.
Scoop.it!
SRI-Rice's insight:
Among other positive effects, SRI methods increased profitability and reduced disease incidence (e.g. yellow mottle virus) in this study in Morogoro, Tanzania, conducted by by researchers at Sokoine University, Chollima Agricultural Research Institute, and the Zonal Irrigation Unit-Morogoro.
Scoop.it!
The report is now available for the Benin West Africa Agricultural Productivity Program (WAAPP) first SRI training held by host organization PROCAD on Nov. 12-14, 2014. The initiative is designed to mainstream SRI in the important Ouémé River Valley in the southern part of the country.
SRI-Rice's insight:
Over the course of the next few years future trainings of trainers and relay trainings will extend SRI to an estimated 5,000 farmers in the southern Benin. (For more information, check the SRI-WAAPP website)
Scoop.it!
Check the latest news listed on this website that records the activities of the regional SRI project of the West Africa Agriculture Productivity Program (WAAPP)..
SRI-Rice's insight:
See the "about page" at http://sriwestafrica.org/about to learn more about the project described in this website, which aims to increase rice production in 13 West African countries by introducing, adapting and scaling up SRI. SRI-Rice provides technical support for this 3-year World Bank-financed project by the West Africa Agricultural Productivity Program (WAAPP).
Scoop.it!
Poster presentation at the 4th International Rice Congress, Oct. 28-31, Bangkok, Thailand. Authors: Iswandi Anas, Nindya Ayu Utari, Yolla Vivi Sukmasakti, and Rahayu Widyastut.
SRI-Rice's insight:
Iswandi and his colleagues at Bogor Agricultural University show that adoption of rice ratooning with SRI crop and water management can benefit rice farmers. (Other SRI posters from the IRC can be found at http://sri.cals.cornell.edu/conferences/IRC2014/IRC2014_Presentations.html)
Scoop.it!
L’Agence nationale de conseil agricole et rural (ANCAR) veut mobiliser 5.000 producteurs de riz des régions de Fatick et Kaolack (centre) autour du Système de riziculture intensive (SRI), a indiqué lundi son directeur chargé de la zone du Bassin arachidier, Abdoulaye Sy.
SRI-Rice's insight:
Senegal government agriculture agency will extend SRI to 5,000 farmers in the Fatick and Kaolack regions.
Scoop.it!
Downloadable! This paper investigates the impact of training provided by a large-scale private farm on the performance of surrounding small-scale rice farmers in a rain-fed area in Tanzania. We found that the training effectively enhances the adoption of improved rice cultivation practices, paddy yield, and profit of rice cultivation by small-holder farmers. In fact, the trainees achieve paddy yield of 5 tons per hectare on average, which is remarkably high for rain-fed rice cultivation. Our results suggest high potential of small-scale rain-fed lowland rice cultivation and extension services by private large scale farms.
Scoop.it!
SRI-Rice's insight:
This story is about women in Jharkhand, India, successfully adopting the System of Crop Intensification (SCI) for various crops.
|
Scoop.it!
Ample use of organic manure has been the main the reason for Erode farmers bagging the Chief Minister’s Award for obtaining highest paddy yield for two consecutive years.
SRI-Rice's insight:
Tamil Nadu farmer tells how he got the award using the System of Rice Intensification... Find out how he did it!
Scoop.it!
SRI-Rice's insight:
This is a recently uploaded handout by SRI-Rice that was prepared for our booth at the 4th International Rice Congress held last October in Bangkok, Thailand.
Scoop.it!
System of Rice Intensification (SRI) methodology of rice cultivation has been adopted overwhelmingly by farmers in the district this year, in view of the twin advantages: higher productivity, and lesser requirement of capital and human labour.
SRI-Rice's insight:
This article from Erode district, Tamil Nadu, India, says SRI is gaining popularity fast, with 31,000 hectares and 70 per cent of farmers have adopting it. The rotary weeder can do in a few hours what handweeding could achieve with a day of employment for 20 laborers.
Scoop.it!
This SRI (System of Rice Intensification) training is an exciting development for families throughout Myanmar/Burma. This method of rice growing is organic, uses less water and produces greater crop yields when compared with traditional rice growing methods. Thanks for helping train 71 Shan farmers in this exciting method of rice growing!
SRI-Rice's insight:
It's good to see that more groups are getting involved with SRI in Myanmar!
Scoop.it!
Poster presented at the 4th International Rice Congress, bangkok, Thailand, October 27-31, 2014. Authors: Amod Thakur, Rajeeb Kumar Mohanty and Ashwani Kumar
SRI-Rice's insight:
In this poster, Amod and colleagues talk about how climate-resilient upland rice production systems are needed to enhance the productivity of both land and water.
Scoop.it!
Radiodiffusion Télévision Sénégalaise est la chaîne qui vous présente toute l'actualité politique mais aussi, Sports, Société, environnement, les Émissions T...
SRI-Rice's insight:
(SRI segment plays during minutes 20:57 to 23:45). Produced Radiodiffusion Télévision Sénégalaise, RTS channel, YouTube. This is a national TV channel report on workshop and training in Kaolack, Senegal, with additional reporting on the WAAPP’s SRI project in Kaolack, Fatick and Kaffrine, Senegal.
ynq42xbdbj@privaterelay.appleid.com's curator insight,
July 26, 2023 1:46 PM
(SRI segment plays during minutes 20:57 to 23:45). Produced Radiodiffusion Télévision Sénégalaise, RTS channel, YouTube. This is a national TV channel report on workshop and training in Kaolack, Senegal, with additional reporting on the WAAPP’s SRI project in Kaolack, Fatick and Kaffrine, Senegal.
Scoop.it!
The RRA Network of Malkangiri District in Odisha, India, has been helping tribal farmers in rainfed areas to learn more about SRI methods for the past three years. During 2014, they scaled up to work with 500 farmers in four of the seven blocks of the district.
SRI-Rice's insight:
Thanks to WASSAN for providing this excellent report!
Scoop.it!
SRI-Rice's insight:
Abstract deadline has passed but you can still attend! There will also be a pre-conference workshop focussed on sustainable and balanced ecosystems for rice pest management. ALSO SEE THE NEW WEBSITE FOR SRI-MAS, the national SRI network for Malaysia. http://www.sri-mas.org/
Scoop.it!
寧靜的台灣稻作革命(上)-低投入高產出的強化稻作系統 -
Taiwan's quiet revolution to strengthen low-input high-yield rice systems...
SRI-Rice's insight:
Nice to know that Yuchuan Chang's Taiwan-SRI site is posting again in 2015!
Scoop.it!
After a lull in activities around SRI (Systems of Rice Intensification), two new SRI projects were launched recently in Mwea involving applied research, comprising within it two-sub-projects; (i) Scientific evaluation of labour demands under SRI, and (ii) Scientific assessment of impacts of SRI on weeds.
SRI-Rice's insight:
Projects are implemented as a collaboration between Water Research and Resource Center at the Jomo Kenyatta University of Agriculture and Technology-JKUAT and MIAD-NIB and are supported by the African Institute for Capacity and Development (AICAD)
Scoop.it!
In the small North East Indian state of Tripura, SRI has developed into an innovation system where various stakeholders have come together to make the state self-sufficient in food grains. This study was conducted to understand the characteristics of the leading stakeholders of the SRI innovation system in the state, their competence, relationship among each other and the enabling environment.
SRI-Rice's insight:
Citation: Bhattacharjee, Suchiradipta, and R. Saravanan. 2014. Who makes it click? Understanding the stakeholders in agricultural innovation systems in Tripura state of India. Tropical Agricultural Research 25(4): 479-494
Scoop.it!
Presentation at the Workshop on Crop Production Equipment for the System of Rice Intensification (SRI), Asian Institute of Technology, Pathumthani, Thailand.
SRI-Rice's insight:
The other 18 presentations from the SRI Equipment workshop (held Nov. 1-3, 2015 in Thailand) can be found at http://sri.cals.cornell.edu/conferences/SRI_Equipment_Workshop1110/
|
Mai Van Trinh, director of Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development's Institute for Agricultural Environment emphasizes SRI among new water- and cost-efficient farming techniques that will allow Viet Nam to reduce greenhouse gas emissions in wet rice production by 15 to 20 per cent by 2020.