Madagascar: Périmètres agricoles – 100 000 ha de terrain réhabilités [SRI implemented on 101,600 ha for three years, enabled Madagascar to improve its productivity to 5 tons per ha in 2 regions.]

SRI AFRICA February 8, 2023 0 Comments

According to data from the Ministry of Agriculture and Livestock (MINAE), nearly 100,000 ha of agricultural perimeters have been rehabilitated since 2019 in the different regions of the country. In addition, 28,000 ha have been newly developed, which should allow an additional production of 140,000 tonnes of rice per year at a rate of 5 […]

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Groupe Filatex – Dons d’intrants agricoles pour la Commune d’Ambohijanaka

SRI AFRICA October 15, 2021 0 Comments

25 « angady », 44 arrosoirs, 11 pulvérisateurs, 5 sarcleuses, 2 tonnes d’engrais biologiques, 150 kg de semences de riz certifiés dont 50 kg de FOFIFA 160 pour le riz irrigué et 100 kg de B22 pour le riz pluvial « sur tanety ». A cela s’ajoutent des semences, utilisées dans 2,32 Ha de rizières et 5,5 Ha de […]

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Special Issue “The System of Rice Intensification (SRI) Contributions to Agricultural Sustainability”

SRI AFRICA July 6, 2020 0 Comments

The System of Rice Intensification, developed some four decades ago in Madagascar, started receiving international attention only after 2002. As SRI methods have been found repeatedly to evoke more productive and robust rice phenotypes from given genotypes, its use has spread, and the methodology has now been validated in >60 countries. During this process, the […]

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