Article and Image Courtesy : Spulmano Wordpress
The tractor practically sinks if the boys don’t hold it up. This piece of land has the issue of too much ground water
These pictures are taken of PASALI’s Rice Contract Farm August to October 2011 which is one of the two modes of the System of Rice Intensification PASALI applies at the moment:
- the Farm Support Scheme for SRI is the project-based farmer trainings mode
- the Rice Contract Farm with SRI is the investment-based mode that runs as business, must make a profit like business but has an built-in land redemption scheme for farmer households.
Gamai and Bani carefully select good seed using the egg-salt water method: mix salt with water and when the egg floats then the mixture is good. The seed is put into the container with salt water. The good seeds sink to the bottom and the bad ones float. RCF’s seed rating so far is 85% good
Click here to read the entire article
/articles/rice-contract-farm-and-its-stages-sri