The System of Rice Intensification (SRI) has emerged as a promising agricultural methodology for enhancing rice productivity while promoting sustainability and resilience in rice cultivation systems. This abstract aims to provide an overview of SRI, highlighting its principles, practices, and potential benefits. SRI emphasizes the optimization of plant growth conditions through improved soil, water, and […]
On our Teltane Farm in Monroe, Maine, USA, we have begun adapting System of Crop Intensification (SCI) ideas to our carrot production, with considerable success in this second trial season (2014). A previous and smaller trial of SCI for carrots in 2012 was very successful and encouraged us to expand and duplicate the methods that […]
During the latter half of the twentieth century, most efforts to increase food production were based on apotheosis was dubbed the green revolution, has raised the output of food, but with substantial and growing financial and environmental costs, and for some years it has been encountering diminishing agronomic and economic returns (Peng et al., 2010; […]