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 […]
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 […]