SRI Introduction: The spread of SRI in East Africa This is an introduction to a series of 4 training videos and details how IFAD has promoted the spread of SRI from Madagascar to Rwanda and then Burundi. Malagasy farmers went to Rwanda to share their knowledge and Burundian farmers then visited the same Rwandan farmers […]
The first System of Rice Intensification (SRI) trial in Zambia, and possibly the first in Southern Africa, was initiated in late 2005 by Henry Ngimbu, voluntary agricultural advisor to the Esek Farmers’ Cooperative Society. Their 12.5 x 12.5 meter plot yielded 96 kg of dried paddy (6.144 t/ha) in Solwezi, North-Western Province, an area where […]
Jean Apedoh, of the NGO GRAPHE, first learned of SRI from a presentation by Erika Styger at the ECHO annual conference in Ouagadougou in 2011, and came back determined to spread SRI in Togo. He undertook a series of visits to villages in the evenings to screen the World Bank Foundation video on SRI, ultimately reaching […]