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In the film “SRI in Chhattisgarh-A New Hope For Farmers”, Jacob, an SRI expert, narrates the advantages of adopting SRI in Chhattisgarh. He tells us how subsidizing SRI in the state can be productive to farmers and the government. He also explains how existing procurement and other management problems can be solved by using this low-cost method. 
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Peningkatan produktivitas padi di Kabupaten Bantul dipacu dengan berbagai cara agar swasemba beras tercapai. Salah satunya dengan penerapan metode System of Rice Intensification (SRI)
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SRI among methods recommended by for govt.rice production extension in Bantul Regency.
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Calvince Okello, a young Kenyan social entrepreneur, decided to ensure proper, reliable and real-time information flow among smallholder farmers, traders and other service providers along the agricultural value chain in all parts of the country, by leveraging the use of mobile services... He created M-shamba, which in Swahili means mobile farm... Thus far, the business has reached 6,000 rice farmers and helped them adopt System Rice Intensification (SRI).
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Farm System, one of M-shamba’s key products, is able to guide the farmer in the necessary activities throughout the crop life cycle, from planting to postharvest handling, as well as keeping track of all their revenue, expenditure, and tasks. When the farm produce is ready for sale, the farmer is able to upload the commodity information to Marketplace, another M-shamba product.
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Scientists – and economists – should avoid being prisoners of present knowledge, says former FAO agricultural economist Andrew MacMillan.
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SRI and Conservation Agriculture making strides after initial resistance from the research community....
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Mahamadou Mamadoun with #SRI plant in Douegoussou #Mali. System of #Rice Intensification used in the entire village. (Source: SRI-Rice Twitter)
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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.
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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.
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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
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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.
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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.
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This IFAD/SRI-Rice video, which was made by Flooded Cellar Productions, has been shortened and rereleased on YouTube's UN Expo channel.
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Harouna Ibrahim, SRI technician with Africare, Timbuktu, Mali composed this SRI song. The song was recorded on July 9, 2011 in Goundam, Timbuktu Mali.
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While not new, those of you who haven't heard this SRI song from Mali will not want to miss out!
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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
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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)
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"I asked, what was so special about SRI? Doesn’t it require a lot of labour and seed as a result of which the cost of cultivation goes up? No, he replied. It’s a wrong impression being created. Raghupati told me that SRI has resulted in 1/3rd saving of water and simultaneously an increase of 50 per cent in crop productivity. The seed requirement has come down from 30 kg/acre to 5kg/acre, and there is no additional labour required. Against an application of about 75 kg of urea per acre he has completely stopped its use while he has been able to scale down the usage of DAP fertiliser from 3 bags to one bag now."
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Raghupati, a new age Tamil Nadu farmer, is interviewed here about the farmers’ club he chairs — Sirunagar Farmers’ Club — which was awarded for best performance by the National Bank for Agriculture and Rural Development (NABARD)
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Thailand Weekend Farmer Network: Presenter: Supachai Pitiwut Presentation at the SRI Equipment Workshop held at the Asian Institute of Technology, Nov. 1-3, 2014.
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Thailand's Weekend Farmer Network is largely made up of younger people who work in the city during the week and are innovative farmers during the weekend! Their facebook page https://www.facebook.com/WeekendFarmerNetworks with 68,000+ "likes" is quite active with SRI info! While much of the PowerPoint above is in Thai, you can get an idea of the range of equipment they are adapting for SRI in irrigated and rainfed areas.
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An agro-entrepreneurial group made up of the agriculture graduates in Nigeria have successfully piloted a three-cycle rice production programme in Niger State...
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Agriculture Graduates Association of Nigeria (AGAN), a private sector-driven extension programme and young knowledgeable farmers achieved this by introducing organic farming using SRI, which is being introduced under the West Africa Agricultural Productivity Programme (WAAPP).
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This Digital Green video reflects how the sowing of wheat is done through the System of Wheat Intensification (SWI) method.
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If you want to translate this Digital Green video made by farmers Bihar into any language (including English!), you can upload your transcript directly at http://www.amara.org/en/videos/g6oLHUPAf5G0/info/swi-sowing-amour-purnia/ .
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Interesting documentation of a NABARD-sponsored SRI training in South Sikkim, India.
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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.
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Tamil Nadu farmer tells how he got the award using the System of Rice Intensification... Find out how he did it!
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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!
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It's good to see that more groups are getting involved with SRI in Myanmar!
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Poster presented at the 4th International Rice Congress, bangkok, Thailand, October 27-31, 2014. Authors: Amod Thakur, Rajeeb Kumar Mohanty and Ashwani Kumar
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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.
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(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.
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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.
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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.
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Thanks to WASSAN for providing this excellent report!
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