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LEISA India Team
LEISA India's internal team of scientists, agriculturists, researchers and scholars.
The Narayana Reddy Column: Adopt SRI, save resources
SRI practice which originated in Madagascar, is spreading far and wide as farmers are finding it beneficial. There are innovations being tried out in different soil conditions...
Golden wheat becomes more Golden – Extending SRI to wheat
People’s Science Institute carried out the first trials of the System of Wheat Intensification (SWI) during rabi 2006-07. Starting with systematic research trials on farmers’...
Food security in flood prone areas – SRI shows the way
More number of paddy farmers in flood prone areas in Kailali district are adopting SRI method. With SRI, farmers are able to raise rice plants which have withstood storm, wind...
Horses for courses – Understanding SRI adoption
Farmers in Tamil Nadu are finding SRI method ideal for conserving traditional seeds of rice. Despite constraints, farmers are choosing SRI practices suitable for them and moving...
Sustainable sugarcane initiative – Improving yields and reducing ecological footprint
Sustainable Sugarcane Initiative, SSI, an innovative set of agronomic practices, that leaves reduced ecological footprint, is catching up very fast among the sugarcane growers in...
“SRI is something unprecedented”
Interview with Norman Uphoff - Norman Uphoff, Professor Emeritus of Government and International Agriculture at Cornell University, served as director of the Cornell...
Upscaling SRI – Unpacking innovation, investments and institutions
SRI performance has been spectacular under diverse conditions. Many small, marginal and tribal farmers, are reaping better harvests with SRI, many a times with indigenous or...
Showing the dawn
Farmers in West Bengal are adopting SRI and reaping benefits. A CSR initiative proves that the corporate world can play a meaningful role in addressing development issues like...