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 […]
System of Rice Intensification (SRI) activities were first documented in Côte d’Ivoire during 2014 following the onset of the West Africa Agriculture Productivity Program’s (WAAPP) regional Improving and Scaling up SRI in West Africa (SRI-WAAPP) project. Following initial trials overseen by the SRI-WAAPP National Facilitator for Côte d’Ivoire, Dr. Alphonse Bouet, the project focus zoned in on […]
[March 8, 2021] In March 2021, Chia Benard (Ben) Ful, coordinator of the local NGO Boyo Association For Rural Development (BARUDEV) that works in the northwest Cameroon community of Mbueni, Boyo division, reported on the performance their SRI demonstration fields. The photo at right shows the productivity of SRI methods this past season: two large bags […]