Globally, around a billion people are engaged in rice farming and around half of them are women. They continue to carry out their work mostly barefoot, with their primary tools...
Agroecological landscapes: Conserving indigenous rice in Coastal Sundarbans
Infrastructural and technical problems that plague small farmers attempting to use chemically-intensive farming methods for cultivating hybrid and HYV rice also hinder their...
Upscaling an innovative practice in rainfed paddy cultivation
Sangeetha Patil Farm practices, even with inherent merits, are often difficult to spread over a large area. It is much more challenging for a practice like SRI to be tried and...
Food Sovereignty: SRI sets the Platform in Irrigated Rice Systems of Tamil Nadu
V.K.Ravichandran, K.R.Jahanmohan and B.J. Pandian Tamil Nadu Agricultural University, a pioneer public sector research institute has piloted the innovative method of rice...
System of Rice Intensification (SRI) in Wayanad – Experiences of RASTA
C.K.Vishnudas Wayanad in Kerala once had nearly 40000 hectares of paddy cultivation, the name Wayanad itself came out of “Wayal Nadu” meaning the land of paddy fields. But,...
SRI METHOD – RETROSPECT AND FUTURE PROSPECTS
K.Suresh SRI Method and feeding the population Whenever an alternative is put forth to the conventional high-input agriculture one is immediately questioned whether it will be...
Sustaining Rice Cultivation in India Experiences from System of Rice Intensification
Ramanjaneyulu and Rajitha India is a country with a wide diversity in ecological and social situations. Rice being the staple food for more than 65% people, is grown in all...
Natural regeneration processes at work
Modern agriculture technology has imposed many external inputs like machinery for cultivation, hybrid seeds, chemical fertilizers, pesticides and herbicides to improve crop...
SRI method of Paddy cultivation
During 1980 – 1985 there was an acute scarcity for water in Madagascar (West Africa). Dr. Henri-de-Laulani a Ph.D. holder in Agricultural Sciences, who was working as a Baptist...