The first System of Rice Intensification (SRI) trial in Zambia, and possibly the first in Southern Africa, was initiated in late 2005 by Henry Ngimbu, voluntary agricultural advisor to the Esek Farmers’ Cooperative Society. Their 12.5 x 12.5 meter plot yielded 96 kg of dried paddy (6.144 t/ha) in Solwezi, North-Western Province, an area where […]
Jean Apedoh, of the NGO GRAPHE, first learned of SRI from a presentation by Erika Styger at the ECHO annual conference in Ouagadougou in 2011, and came back determined to spread SRI in Togo. He undertook a series of visits to villages in the evenings to screen the World Bank Foundation video on SRI, ultimately reaching […]
International Fund for Agricultural Development’s (IFAD) brought two people from the Madagascar NGO Association Tefy Saina to Rwanda in 2006 to extend SRI methods in conjunction with the Support Project for the Strategic Plan for the Transformation of Agriculture (PAPSTA); fifty farmers were trained in SRI methods in the original training. By 2008, an additional 2000 […]