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SRI - Less seeds, water , fertilisers lead to greater yields

Farmers innovate and adapt the System of Rice Intensification on their own. Anecdotes narrating their tales of how they help themselves and their fellow farmers

Posted on 18 Jan, 2011 11:21 PM

BHUBANESWAR, India, Dec 29, 2010 (IPS) - When French Jesuit priest and passionate agriculturist Henri de Laulanie developed the System of Rice Intensification (SRI) method of cultivation for Madagascar’s poor farmers in the 1980s, he probably had no idea that millions of farmers elsewhere in the world would one day benefit from it as well.

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