A Bihar farmer who set a paddy cultivation record has been hired on a five-year contract by the South African government to train farmers there in the innovative System of Rice Intensification (SRI) method for which he will be paid the equivalent of
There is a lot of excitement around the System of Rice Intensification (SRI), especially amongst smallholder farmers and agricultural policymakers hoping to increase national rice production. But SRI is not short of skeptics either.
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Is it fact or fiction? Read on and decide for yourself!
In Malawi, SRI is being championed by the IFAD-funded Irrigation Rural Livelihoods and Agricultural Development (IRLAD) Project. The IRLAD project trained over 5,000 farmers in irrigation schemes to adopt SRI technology as a way of ensuring optimum utilization of the irrigation schemes and improve yield using less farm inputs.
Indian women farmers are emerging as the backbone of the rural economy. Recent data from the National Sample Survey Organisation (NSSO) data reveals that 18 per cent of farming families are headed by women.
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This is a story of women from Odisha India's largely tribal region of Koraput. See what they are doing with SRI!
Perricone-Dazzo, Lorraine. 2014. Farmer centered research on improved rice cropping systems in the Peanut Basin of Senegal: Peace Corps System of Rice Intensification extension campaign. Master of Professional Studies project paper, Cornell University.
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Lorraine's study of SRI adaptations in four villages in Kaffrine, Senegal, found that the most successful combination of practices for both yield and labor savings were in-line direct seeding using local animal traction machinery shown at right (achieving 35cm between-row spacing) and hand-thinning the result at 8 days to 25cm spacing with one plant per hill. The full project paper is available at http://sri.cals.cornell.edu/countries/senegal/research/Senegal_PerriconeDazzoMPS0514.pdf
Thirty-two presentations from the Conference on "Recent Changes in Rice Production and Rural Livelihoods: New Insights on the System of Rice Intensification as a Socio-Technical Movement in India", held June 19-21 2014 in New Delhi, India. The event was organized by Wageningen University, National Consortium on SRI, and Xavier Institute of Management, Bhubaneswar.
SANGOLDA: The Green Growth Institute, Sangolda in collaboration with the Krishi Vigyan Kendra, North Goa, on Monday, held a demonstration on paddy cultivation through the SRI system for the Std VIII students...
In East Timor Oxfam supporters are helping farmers increase their yields of rice, coffee and other crops through better planting techniques, training and local processing. Oxfam and our local partner the Movimento Cooperativo Economico-Agricola (MCE-A), are trialling the System of Rice Intensification (SRI), a method of growing rice organically and more intensively, in 16 new locations across East Timor.
This edition of ECHO Asia Notes, which is devoted to SRI, has some really interesting articles from Thailand, including dart transplanting and SRI equipment development Great reading!
The system of rice intensification has emerged as a promising rice production package but weed infestation could lead to incomplete benefits from the system. A two-year field study was performed to determine an appropriate method of weed management in SRI...
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Fascinating study by Pakstani researchers that finds manual hoeing at 20, 40 and 60 DAT as well as rotary weeding more effective than using herbicide (orthosulfamuron).
Rice is susceptible to the accumulation of arsenic, which is mobile in flooded soils. Arsenic is toxic to plants as well as humans. The research project “Reducing Inorganic Arsenic Levels in Rice by Appropriate Water Management,” which addresses this issue, was selected for funding by the Center for a Sustainable Future to receive funding from the 2014 Academic Venture Fund.
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SRI, which recommends moist, rather than flooded fields will be investigated with regard to its potential to reduce arsenic content in rice. (We believe it will!) SRI-Rice at Cornell will collaborate with partners in 7 countries on this project.
With water becoming an important cost, and with climate change and soil degradation, the System of Rice Intensification offers disadvantaged farming households better opportunities
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A well-written article by Rita Sharma, a former Secretary to the Government of India and National Advisory Council, that discusses the Climate-Smart features of SRI, which she also refers to as the new “green grassroots revolution."
It is officially the monsoon season but there are no dark clouds on the horizon as yet in parts of the country. This year, like some previous drought years, the monsoon has disappeared..
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An excellent article by Padmakshi Badoni about the water-saving potential of SRI published in the South Asia Network on Dams, Rivers and People (SANDRP) blog.
Hindi-language video by Aajeevika National Rural Livelihood Mission in Bihar, India, showing the major steps in the System of Wheat Intensification (SWI), which was inspired by SRI practices.
Researches with SRI world-over have revealed that high yields from the SRI method are the consequence of improvement in plant environment rather than enhancement of physiological potential of the plant itself.
System of crop intensification, specially in rice, has shown sizeable savings in water and seed usage. Yet its adoption has not spread despite incentives
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Latha Jishnu discusses some of the benefits and controversies of SRI/SCI after interviewing Norman Uphoff for this Down to Earth article.
More than 900 families in Dakshina Kannada district have taken up the SRI (System of Rice Intensification) method of paddy cultivation, according to Mahaveer Ajri, Regional Director of the Shri Kshetra Dharmasthala Rural Development Project (SKDRDP), an NGO working for rural development in Karnataka, India.
With the changing climatic conditions, water from rain is becoming more unreliable. It is in such a situation that the agricultural sector will have to feed more people and have very little water to spare as there is also pressure for increasing water demand from other sectors.
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Article from Gurdaspur, Punjab, India, where reducing water use is becoming increasingly important.
Officials from the Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry, United Nations Forestry and the Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) met in Thalad, Vientiane province, last week to discuss the implementation of a System of Rice Intensification (SRI) projects in in Vientiane, Khammuan and Savannakhet provinces in Laos (Vientiane Times)
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This is part of a regional SRI project for the Lower Mekong Basin that is headed by the Asian Institute of Technology.
(2014). Influence of Nursery Management and Seedling Age on Growth and Economic Performance of Fine Rice. Journal of Plant Nutrition: Vol. 37, No. 8, pp. 1287-1303. doi: 10.1080/01904167.2014.881490
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Article from Pakistani researchers shows the benefits of 10-day-old seedlings over older seedlings... (Abstract is available, but the full article is available by subscription only)
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