SRI Global News ++ March - May 2025 System of Rice Intensification (SRI)

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.

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...

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.

The Humanitarian Centre hosted a seminar on Sustainable Agriculture Development, led by the TAA (Tropical Agriculture Association), as part of the Global Food Futures Year. 

President Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf noted that the introduction SRI is one of the many methods the Ministry of Agriculture has employed to increase rice production and CHAP has been the institution that has been using this method very successfully. 

'System of Rice Intensification', a method of boosting yield of the key kharif crop, has been adopted by some of the states in the country

Tamil Nadu farmer produces bumper crop four times larger than average using system of rice intensification

System of crop intensification, specially in rice, has shown sizeable savings in water and seed usage. Yet its adoption has not spread despite incentives

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.

(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

Commercial rice farmers in Nsanje have commended government for introducing the Systems of Rice Intensification (SRI) concept. They say the new system has enabled them to double their annual produce.

FARMERS in Mvomero District have doubled rice production from four to eight tonnes per acre following innovation produced by researchers at Sokoine University of Agriculture (SUA).

Last year, the area under SRI in Goa was hardly 150 hectares.But for the rabi paddy crop, the agriculture department took special efforts to raise awareness about the advantages of SRI among Goan farmers.

...It may take me out of poverty... 

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Bhubaneswar: National Bank for Agriculture and Rural Development (NABARD) to start livelihood project in 19 districts of Odisha

Odisha. NABARD signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with the Sir Dorabji Tata Trust (SDTT) .