SRI was first introduced into The Gambia in 2000 in conjunction with thesis research undertaken by a Cornell University PhD student, Mustapha Ceesay, who was formerly director of the National Agricultural Research Institute station at Sapu, The Gambia. SRI results reported in his 2004 dissertation ranged from 5.4 to 8.3 t/ha depending on variety and spacing. Ceesay, […]
Field Experiment was carried out in summer seasons of 2014 and 2015 at the Experimental Farm of Rice Research Section, El Gemmiza Agricultural Research station, Gharbia Governorate, Egypt. The study was conducted to determine the response of three rice genotypes (Sakha 106, Giza 179 and Hybrid 3), two types of fertilization (chemical and compost fertilization), […]
Baile Mutambue, an agronomist with the National Rice Program in DRC, reported that SRI methods have been tried for several years in Kinshasa, Mbandaka, Kikwit, Mbanza-Ngungu, and Kisangani and have successfully increased average paddy yields from 1 ton/hectare to 1.5 or 3 tons/hectare. In 2013, the Italian NGO, Mazao, trained farmers in SRI methods in the Tanganyika district […]