Increasing rice yields and saving water: Lessons for policy and practice - The System of Rice Intensification (SRI)
Agricultural production will need to increase by 70% by the year 2050 to feed a population of nine billion people. By that date, 47% of the world’s population could be living under severe water stress, according to OECD projections (OECD, 2012). How can we get more crop per drop? An article on developing methodologies that improve water-use efficiency, or water productivity (WP) in rice production.
Safe alternate wetting and drying technology and water management in SRI
This document on AP SRI consortium's safe alternate wetting & drying technology and water management in System of Rice Intensification, was subsequent to a workshop that enabled discussions on various water saving options in rice cultivation towards the collaborative action-research programme of the AP SRI Consortium supported by DoA and NABARD.
SRI as a NRM approach towards disaster risk reduction
A presentation encapsulating various natural resource management approaches towards disaster risk reduction. It discusses drought risk reduction elements and highlights System of Rice Intensification as one of the NRM based conservation technologies in this context that can build adaptive capacities among communities to cope with increasing water stress by providing more crop per drop
How Millions of Farmers are Advancing Agriculture for themselves
The special focus section is on Sumant Kumar, a farmer from Bihar who has achieved a record yield of 22.4 tons per hectare, from a one-acre plot, through System of Rice Intensification (SRI), when the average paddy yield worldwide is about 4 tons per hectare.
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