The farmers participatory action research (FPAR) trained farmers are enthusiastically adopting and promoting SRI practices with other farmers in their communities and nearby villages. Over 5,000 rice farmers across Cambodia, Thailand, Laos and Vietnam are learning SRI methods at 172 sites across 11 provinces. Despite delayed monsoons, SRI crops have shown better tolerance to drought, pests, and diseases compared to conventional crops. The SRI techniques of transplanting younger seedlings, wider spacing, and keeping soil moist have provided farmers hope for better yields and healthy crops this season.
Sustaining & Enhancing the Momentum for Innovation and Learning around the System of Rice Intensification (SRI) in the Lower Mekong River Basin (SRI-LMB)
Poster Presentation at the 4th International Rice Congress
Presenter: Lucy Fisher
Title: Development of Small-Scale Equipment for the System of Rice Intensification
Venue: BITEC, Bangkok, Thailand
Date: October 27-31, 2014
Presenter: Erika Styger
Date: June 8, 2017,
Title : Alternate Wetting and Drying and the System of Rice Intensification for Sustainable Irrigated Rice Production
Presented in the Water in Agriculture Innovation Series
Venue: The World Bank, Washington DC
Presented by: Abha Mishra
Title: Farmer Adaptation of the System of Rice Intensification (SRI) in the Lower Mekong Basin Region
Date: October 12, 2015
Venue: Cornell University
Sponsored by: SRI-Rice, Cornell University
Poster presentation at the 4th International Rice Congress (2014)
Title: The Roots of the Root Revolution: Pre-Green Revolution Antecedents of the System of Rice Intensification (SRI) in India
Presenter: Dominic Glover
Venue: BITEC, Bangkok, Thailand
Dates: October 27-31, 2014
Sustaining & Enhancing the Momentum for Innovation and Learning around the System of Rice Intensification (SRI) in the Lower Mekong River Basin (SRI-LMB)
Poster Presentation at the 4th International Rice Congress
Presenter: Lucy Fisher
Title: Development of Small-Scale Equipment for the System of Rice Intensification
Venue: BITEC, Bangkok, Thailand
Date: October 27-31, 2014
Presenter: Erika Styger
Date: June 8, 2017,
Title : Alternate Wetting and Drying and the System of Rice Intensification for Sustainable Irrigated Rice Production
Presented in the Water in Agriculture Innovation Series
Venue: The World Bank, Washington DC
Presented by: Abha Mishra
Title: Farmer Adaptation of the System of Rice Intensification (SRI) in the Lower Mekong Basin Region
Date: October 12, 2015
Venue: Cornell University
Sponsored by: SRI-Rice, Cornell University
Poster presentation at the 4th International Rice Congress (2014)
Title: The Roots of the Root Revolution: Pre-Green Revolution Antecedents of the System of Rice Intensification (SRI) in India
Presenter: Dominic Glover
Venue: BITEC, Bangkok, Thailand
Dates: October 27-31, 2014
Title: Understanding drudgery in rice farming using an innovative and participatory tool:
Rapid Comparative Pain Assessment (RACOPA)
Authors: Sabarmatee, C. Sambhu Prasad
Presented at: Annural Rice Research Workers (ARRW) conference at CRRI, Cuttack, Odissa, India
Venue: Cuttack, Odissa, India
Post Harvest Solutions for Cambodia's Rice FarmersEric Stryson
The Cambodian economy is heavily dependent on rice farming, which accounts for nearly 1/3 of its total agricultural production and utilises 80 percent of cultivated land. In 2012, only 200,000 tons of paddy, out of 9.3 million tons produced, were officially exported.
Cambodian rice was awarded Best Rice of the Year in 2012 and 2013 at the Rice Trader World Rice Conference. There is high potential for surplus paddy to be processed into quality milled rice for export which would increase the value of harvests to farmers and to contribute to the government’s target: to increase rice exports to 1 million tons by 2015.
The current fragmented rice value chain encourages informal exports of unprocessed paddy to Vietnam and Thailand and a loss of value for the economy. Traditional methods of drying and storage prevent farmers from selling their produce at a higher price during the off season when most millers have 30-40 percent idle capacity. A more consistent supply of quality paddy is needed throughout the year.
To address these issues, 25 executives from BASF and from 17 nationalities travelled to Phnom Penh and Battambang to explore the opportunities to strengthen the post-harvest value chain in the rice sector in Cambodia. After meeting key stakeholders, a compelling new social business was proposed to provide farming communities with professional post-harvest services, quality agricultural inputs and training.
This offers an attractive and timely opportunity for investors with an interest in agriculture and wishing to support financially viable businesses with far-reaching social impacts. The new business is projected to yield an attractive return on investment and benefit farming communities and the Cambodian economy.
Presenter: M. H. Emadi
Title: SRI in Iran
Date: June 15, 2016
Venue: Cornell University, Ithaca, NY
Sponsor: SRI-Rice, International Programs, CALS, Cornell University
Promoting the Adoption of SRI throughParticipatory Research and Outreach in Kenya SRI - Growing More Rice with Less Water
April 18, 2012, presentation by Prof. Bancy M. Mati
SRI Projects Coordinator
Jomo Kenyatta University of Agriculture & Technology (JKUAT)
Nairobi, Kenya
18th April 2012
Presenter: Jean Njiru
Title: Some observations on introduction and rapid growth of the System of Rice Intensification (SRI) among smallholder farmers in Kenya
Date: October 7, 2016
Venue: 160 Mann Library, Cornell University
Sponsor: SRI-Rice, International Programs, CALS, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY
Title: Agroecological Crop Management for Increased Productivity- Experience with Rice and Other Crops
Date: 24 January 2013
Presented by Norman Uphoff at the 6th International Seminar on Agricultural Policies, Instituto Interamericano de Cooperation para la Agricultura (IICA), Santo Domingo, Domincan Republic
Speakers: Gaoussou Traore and Erika Styger
Title: Improving and Scaling Up SRI in West Africa - A Success Story
Date: September 15, 2015
Venue: SRI-Rice Seminar Series, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY
Presentation at the Workshop on Crop Production Equipment for the System of Rice Intensification (SRI)
Presenter: A Ravindra, WASSAN, India
Title: Innovations In Implements: Processes Followed by WASSAN
Date: November 3, 2014
Venue: ACISAI, Asian Institute of Technology, Thailand
PowerPoint by Joong-Dae Choi, Woon-Ji Park, Ki-Wook Park and Kyong-Jae Lim
Presented at the Paddy and Water Environment Engineering Society PAWEES International Conference, Taipei, October 27, 2011
Title: Understanding drudgery in rice farming using an innovative and participatory tool:
Rapid Comparative Pain Assessment (RACOPA)
Authors: Sabarmatee, C. Sambhu Prasad
Presented at: Annural Rice Research Workers (ARRW) conference at CRRI, Cuttack, Odissa, India
Venue: Cuttack, Odissa, India
Post Harvest Solutions for Cambodia's Rice FarmersEric Stryson
The Cambodian economy is heavily dependent on rice farming, which accounts for nearly 1/3 of its total agricultural production and utilises 80 percent of cultivated land. In 2012, only 200,000 tons of paddy, out of 9.3 million tons produced, were officially exported.
Cambodian rice was awarded Best Rice of the Year in 2012 and 2013 at the Rice Trader World Rice Conference. There is high potential for surplus paddy to be processed into quality milled rice for export which would increase the value of harvests to farmers and to contribute to the government’s target: to increase rice exports to 1 million tons by 2015.
The current fragmented rice value chain encourages informal exports of unprocessed paddy to Vietnam and Thailand and a loss of value for the economy. Traditional methods of drying and storage prevent farmers from selling their produce at a higher price during the off season when most millers have 30-40 percent idle capacity. A more consistent supply of quality paddy is needed throughout the year.
To address these issues, 25 executives from BASF and from 17 nationalities travelled to Phnom Penh and Battambang to explore the opportunities to strengthen the post-harvest value chain in the rice sector in Cambodia. After meeting key stakeholders, a compelling new social business was proposed to provide farming communities with professional post-harvest services, quality agricultural inputs and training.
This offers an attractive and timely opportunity for investors with an interest in agriculture and wishing to support financially viable businesses with far-reaching social impacts. The new business is projected to yield an attractive return on investment and benefit farming communities and the Cambodian economy.
Presenter: M. H. Emadi
Title: SRI in Iran
Date: June 15, 2016
Venue: Cornell University, Ithaca, NY
Sponsor: SRI-Rice, International Programs, CALS, Cornell University
Promoting the Adoption of SRI throughParticipatory Research and Outreach in Kenya SRI - Growing More Rice with Less Water
April 18, 2012, presentation by Prof. Bancy M. Mati
SRI Projects Coordinator
Jomo Kenyatta University of Agriculture & Technology (JKUAT)
Nairobi, Kenya
18th April 2012
Presenter: Jean Njiru
Title: Some observations on introduction and rapid growth of the System of Rice Intensification (SRI) among smallholder farmers in Kenya
Date: October 7, 2016
Venue: 160 Mann Library, Cornell University
Sponsor: SRI-Rice, International Programs, CALS, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY
Title: Agroecological Crop Management for Increased Productivity- Experience with Rice and Other Crops
Date: 24 January 2013
Presented by Norman Uphoff at the 6th International Seminar on Agricultural Policies, Instituto Interamericano de Cooperation para la Agricultura (IICA), Santo Domingo, Domincan Republic
Speakers: Gaoussou Traore and Erika Styger
Title: Improving and Scaling Up SRI in West Africa - A Success Story
Date: September 15, 2015
Venue: SRI-Rice Seminar Series, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY
Presentation at the Workshop on Crop Production Equipment for the System of Rice Intensification (SRI)
Presenter: A Ravindra, WASSAN, India
Title: Innovations In Implements: Processes Followed by WASSAN
Date: November 3, 2014
Venue: ACISAI, Asian Institute of Technology, Thailand
PowerPoint by Joong-Dae Choi, Woon-Ji Park, Ki-Wook Park and Kyong-Jae Lim
Presented at the Paddy and Water Environment Engineering Society PAWEES International Conference, Taipei, October 27, 2011
Poster presentation at the 4th International Rice Congress
Authors: Ngawang Chhogyel (presenter), Mahesh Ghimiray and Yadunath Bajgai
Title: Application of SRI Principles to Sustainable Rice Production in Bhutan
Venue: Bangkok International Trade and Exhibition Centre (BITEC), Bangkok, Thailand
Date: October 28-31, 2014
Contributers: Norman Uphoff, CIIFAD, Cornell University, USA
Iswandi Anas, Biotechnology Lab, IPB, Indonesia
O.P. Rupela, former Principal Scientist, ICRISAT, India
A.K. Thakur, Directorate of Water Management, India
T.M. Thiyagarajan, Tamil Nadu Agric. Univ., India
Presented at: Conference of Association of Applied Biologists on Positive Plant-Microbial Interactions
Presented by: Manuel Sanchez (IICA) and Juan Arthur
Venue: Dominican Republic, 2014
Subject: Experiencias del SRI en RD Primera siembra en la Estación Experimental de Juma, Bonao, 2011.
Presentation at the Workshop on Crop Production Equipment for the System of Rice Intensification (SRI)
Presenter: Ram B. Khadka, Nepal Agricultural Research Council
Title: Performance of the USHA Weeder in Rice and Other Crops in Nepal
Date: November 1, 2014
Venue: ACISAI, Asian Institute of Technology, Thailand
ERGONOMIC EVALUATION OF LAWN MOWER OPERATION FOR COMFORT IN RIVERS STATE, NIG...IAEME Publication
In this study a favorable relationship between Lawn mower, environment and the operator’s comfort is examined. An anthropometric survey was conducted to determine the anthropometric data in order to reduce stresses of the lawn mower operators in Rivers State, Nigeria. To achieve this, measurements of randomly selected 10 mower operators within ages of 21 to 45 including students both males and females were taken and the parameters were analyzed. The results of the 5th and 9th percentile were discussed. The average age of operator was 38 years, body weight was 67 kg, functional leg height was 846 mm, Arm reach length was 558 mm and Chest expansion was 380 mm. The average comfort rating from 10 points scales for 5th and 95th percentile were 8.3 and 9.1 respectively for comfortable operations. These values when strictly adhered to by the designer will ensure comfort ability and reduce physical stress of lawn mower operators
Presentation by Ram Bahadur Khadka
at the National SRI Nepal Network Meeting
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Date: June 19, 2015
Venue: NARI Hall, Lalitpur, Nepal
Title: System of Rice Intensification (SRI) and Labouring Bodies: Exploring Socio-technical Interactions
Author: Sabarmatee, Knowledge, Technology and Innovation Group, Wageningen University
Presenter: Zhu Defeng
Slides from a powerpoint presentationmade to a workshop on SRI, held at theWorld Rice Research Conference,Tsukuba, Japan, November 7, 2004
Audience: World Rice Research Conference, Japan
Subject Country: China
Title: SRI: Introduction to KGVK and Usha Martin University
Presenter: Yezdi P. Karai
Venue: Presented at Cornell University, Ithaca, NY
Date: May 22, 2014
Presentation at the Workshop on Crop Production Equipment for the System of Rice Intensification (SRI)
Presenter: Salehuddin Yahya, Malaysia
Title: Experience in building inter-row weeders for small-scale farmers
Date: November 1, 2014
Venue: ACISAI, Asian Institute of Technology, Thailand
Presentation at the Workshop on Crop Production Equipment for the System of Rice Intensification (SRI)
Presenter: Sopheavy Ty: Oxfam, Cambodia
Title: Rice Dragon Weeder
Date: November 3, 2014
Venue: ACISAI, Asian Institute of Technology, Thailand
Presentation by Ngin Chhay, Director of the Department of Rice Crop, MAFF,
Presented at the Workshop on Consolidation of SRI Experiences, Lessons and Networking, a national SRI workshop convened in Hanoi, Vietnam, January 21-22, 2010
Rural Development Program - Vision changed the livelihood. Yuva Rural Association works on related to livelihoods, natural resource management, gender, social discrimination, governance and human rights in the state of Madhya Pradesh, Gujrat and Maharashtra.
Vision changed the livelihood - Yuva Rural Association
Multilayer vegetable cultivation in the village is an excellent example of judicious
utilization of soil and water resources to take full advantage of limited land resources. Also,
access to markets has been one of the major drivers of this innovation in farming practice.
Now he is the ideal farmer from his villages among the other agriculturists in the region.
Soil moisture and nutrient dynamics in this vegetable farming technique should be of
interest to further investigation.
Presented by: Norman Uphoff, CIIFAD, Cornell University, USA
Presented at: Rice Research and Training Institute, Kafr-el-Sheikh
Date Presented: 04/14/2010
Community-based seed systems: Improving access to quality seeds
Lack of access to good-quality rice seeds, inadequate storage facilities to keep seeds healthy and viable for the next cropping season, not having enough money to buy seeds, and experiencing long hungry months—these are some of the reasons Arakan Valley farmers adopted the community-based seed system (CBSS).
Presented by: Norman Uphoff, CIIFAD, Cornell University, USA
Presented at: BioVision Alexandria 2010 New Life Sciences: Future Prospects
Date Presented: 04/15/2010
An Overview of the System of Rice Intensification for Paddy Fields of MalaysiaRedmond R. Shamshiri
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Poster at the 4th International Rice Congress
Presenter: Devon Jenkins, Gaoussou Traore, Erika Styger and Minamba Bagayoko
Title: Improving and Scaling Up the System of Rice Intensification in West Africa
Venue: Bangkok International Trade and Exhibition Centre (BITEC), Bangkok, Thailand
Date: October 28-31, 2014
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1. The farmers participatory action research
(FPAR) trained farmers are
enthusiastically building strong
networking with other farmers in their
communities and nearby villages and
showing keen interest in setting up more
SRI learning and adoption sites. Blending
of the local knowledge with that of SRI
practices, positive part of such
involvements, fueling innovations and
development of locally adapted rice
production technologies that is reducing
their dependence on external inputs to
further reduce the cost of production.
SRI-LMB Newsletter
More than five-thousand (5,000) rice
farmers in Cambodia, Thailand, Laos and
Vietnam are adapting and learning SRI
method of rice production at 172 sites in
32 districts of 11 provinces this year.
Despite the delayed monsoon this year,
felt across the LMB region, the SRI crop
wereable to cope up with harsh weather
vagaries. Similar to the past experiences
SRI managed crop captivated small
rainfed farmers with its potential, resulting
in better crop production and more
tolerance to droughts, pests and
diseases. The SRI techniques that include
transplanting younger seedlings or direct
seeding with low seed rate, wider
spacingbetween plantsand keepingthe
soil preferably moist during vegetative
growth stage have provided farmers with
hope of better yield and healthy crops
this season too.
A project implemented by the Asian Institute of Technology.
• SRI
adaptation
in full swing
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• Farmer in
Focus – Mrs.
Tea Sarim
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Thirsty Rice
Fields...
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A bi-annual newsletter published by the SRI-LMB (A Project funded by the European Union),
Asian Center of Innovation for Sustainable Agriculture Intensification (ACISAI), Asian Institute of Technology (AIT)
Volume 3, Issue 2: Year 2015
Smart farming with
SRI can be a
sustainable
approach for rice
production in Lower
Mekong River Basin
(LMB) …
Theories and practices interact.
Theories are insight where as principles
are extracted from practices. With
regard to SRI one may choose to
observe and apply a practice, which
has given spectacular yield in one
location, without adapting it to its
current practices in another location.
The approach is straightforward but
practitioners that adopt this strategy
often struggle because new practice
does not fit in their current ones. To
avoid such misfit, one may consider
what the principles are behind and
accordingly they can adapt variant of
those principles according to their
needs thereby preserving the SRI
inspiration rather than trying to
replicate the practices. The SRI-LMB
encourages having such ‘adaptation’
in thinking and approach for learning
and innovation needed to make
rainfed agriculture more smart and
resilient.
- Dr. Abha Mishra
IN FOCUS
This project is funded by the European Union.
The view expressed in this publication do not necessarily reflect the views of the European Commission.
These smart farmers are supported at
every stage of crop growth and
development by ensuing proper
observation and documentation by
local,nationaland regionalprojectstaffs.
The observations are debated and
discussed at all important crop
development stages among
participating farmers and their neighbors
so that the newly developing suit of
technologies are well understood and
easily adopted by one and all. Not only
the crop development parameters are
being observed and recorded but also
the economic parameters are recorded
to help understand the cost and benefit
of new suit of technologies.
SRI adaptation sites in LMB
In this issue:
Message from Team Leader
2. compared with 25-40 Kg seed/rai in
conventional manual broadcasting
by farmers.
A one-day transplanting workshop in
Fak Tha, Nam Pat and Thong Saen
Khan districts of Uttaradit province
was organized by Vocational Training
and Development Center for Thai
People along the Border Areas
(VTDC), Uttaradit and AIT in order to
provide common understanding of SRI
techniques for new smart farmers
followed by setting of the SRI
demonstrations.
Similarly, in Sisaket province, 100 %
organic manure based SRI production
system (manure @ 1Tons / Rai) are
being evaluated at all demonstration
sites. In pre-planting discussions
concerns from farmers like different
spacing measurement, weed
management, possible market reach
and support on data collection were
discussed involving newly joined
farmers. Good stand of SRI crop
compared to the conventionally
grown rice is providing high hope to
the farmers that they would be able to
harvest a profitable and healthy rice
using SRI technique.
SRI adaptation in full swing…
Mrs. Prakay Marya’s SRI field in Naklam
village, Nam Kai sub district, Nam Pad
district of Uttaradit province
At fifty-two (52) field sites covering 3
provinces of Thailand, i.e., Surin,
Uttaradit and Sisaket, smart farmers
have set-up SRI learning and
adaptation sites involving members of
their communities during ongoing wet
season 2015. Delayed rain in most part
of the project areas this year resulted
into water shortage which delayed
sowing/transplanting resulting into
above normal weed infestation.
However, the continuity of rainfall
since early September provided
needed moisture for good growth of
rice crops. It also helped to suppress
the weeds in general but better in SRI
field.
This year, the Project has provided
hand-held rotary weeders to the
farmers to see whether this could be
effectively used to manage weeds.
Similarly, drum seeders were made
available at the beginning of the rice-
planting season for testing purposes
since most of the farmers prefer direct
seeding due to labour shortage in the
project area. The drum seeder uses 6-
8 Kg of rice seed per rai (0.16 ha)
Cambodia
SRI experimental field in Somrongtong krom village, Somrongtong
commune in Somrongtong district of Kampong Speu province,
Cambodia
This year the Project has set up SRI learning plots at
seventy-two (72) farmer’s locations. All demonstration
locations, spread across three provinces, i.e., Kampot,
Kampong Speu and Takeo are being led by trained
farmers. Half of these sites are new sites while
remaining half are the same sites where last year SRI
crops were grown. Once again the prolonged
drought until early September forced farmers to delay
the transplanting and in some cases change of variety
from medium to short duration rice. Most farmers
preferred “Phka Rumduol”, a local photo-sensitive
variety, winner of 2014 best rice of world award. Even
with delayed sowing of this variety, which is normally
transplanted in July-August, the crop stand is in
excellent condition and most farmers hope to harvest
higher yield and profit. Refuting the drought some
farmers are adapting SRI principles by dry
broadcasting paddy seed at low seed rates for their
local conditions. Farmers are eagerly awaiting the final
result of their hard work to learn how these
adaptations fare in their local conditions.
Page 2 SRI-LMB Newsletter ● Volume 3, Issue 2 Year: 2015 ● www.sri-lmb.ait.asia
SRI-LMB team at Huatung village, Bansiaw
sub district, Fak Tha district of Uttaradit
province
Thailand
3. Vietnam
Capacity building trainings for farmer trainers and local farmers were
successfully completed in two more provinces - Savannakhet and
Khammouan in Laos this season. The trainings involved both men and
women farmers to sense the local problems, set adoptive
experiments, hone the observation skills, use of farmer’s diary to
record field observations and summarize and compile the outcomes
based on compiled observation at 4 critical crop growth stages, i.e.,
transplanting, tillering, flowering and at harvest. During this process
they also learned the key aspects of the SRI principles and set-up
demonstration plots to learn about SRI technique.
In addition, 36 SRI experimentation sites, 12 in each 3 provinces
(Savannakhet, Khammouane and Vientiane province) were setup
this year. TDK 8 and Lambak, which are popular gulatinous rice variety
in Laos, were grown by farmers. In Khammoune province many SRI
fields were set-up without any chemical fertilizers as commonly
practiced. At the time of reporting crop stands were excellent.
Farmers are expecting good harvest and higher profit.
Lao PDR
Farmer Trainers at SRI demonstration field at Bac
Giang province, Vietnam
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SRI demonstration site at Yommalath district,
Khammouan province, Laos
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Smart farmer at SRI demonstration field in Van
Vieng district of Vientiane province, Laos
Twelve (12) FPAR sites were set up in three (3) districts of Bac Giang
province this wet season 2015. With the SRI learnings from FPAR
trainings, the smart farmers have come forward to encourage
involvement of more local farmers from their communities. These
trained farmers are providing trainings on field data collection using
farmer diary, optimum use of fertilizers, use of green manures and
problem solving mechanisms using SRI techniques using season-long
training process. Such ‘learning by doing’ trainings motivate small-
scale farmers and encourage them to take informed action for
profitable and healthy rice production.
While farmers at Ha Tinh, another project province, are gearing up
to set up SRI learning and adaptation plots in coming spring season,
which is common rice production season for this province.
4. “Most women farmers in
my village are poor and
uneducated. It is hard to
teach them complicated
skills, so we simplified our
approach to transfer
knowledge to them.”
After the successful collaboration
with Big Plot project (an initiative of
Ministry of Agriculture and
Cooperatives (MoAC), Thailand to
produce high quality rice following
the HM the King’s Sufficiency
Economy philosophy), SRI-LMB team
provided trainings and backstopping
visits to the farmer groups in Sisaket
province during wet season 2015. A
total of fourteen (14) SRI
demonstration plots were setup
involving more than 400 farmers to
Women farmers in Cambodia – seeding their
way with SRI
Mrs. Tea Sarim, one of our smart
farmers in Kampot province of
Cambodia is delighted to share her SRI
adaptation experiences working with
SRI-LMB project. A 57 year old farmer
enlightened many women farmers
with SRI farming techniques in her small
village called Deim Pour in Angkor
Chey district. She was selected to
participatein a season long trainingfor
farmers called CFPAR and later
became one of the smartest farmer
trainers to transfer knowledge of SRI
techniques to other farmers in her
community by conducting various
FPARs.
Khmer women farmers are very
hardworking and have hectic work life
supporting their family needs, daily
household jobs and other agricultural
works. Sarim too is one of those who is
responsible for feeding her family. She
experienced her workload being
reduced after adapting SRI in her
fields. Today, she produces more than
6 tons per hectare by spending less
costs on seeds, water, labour, and
other resources.
Having practiced conventional
farming for five years, Sarim was
unable to feed her family well and
conventional farming consumed lot
of time and labor. In three years span,
after adapting SRI, she has watched
her stickyrice fieldgrow wellwithtillers
producing many seeds and reduced
about 20% of her workload. Today,
she is very happy with the results of SRI
and able to support basic & other
commercial needs of her family.
Sarim is one of the popular SRI farmer
trainers in her village and wishes to
help many other women farmers in
her neighboring villages to improve
their economic condition.
FARMER IN FOCUS
integrate local organic rice production
with SRI crop management technique.
The project is working in collaboration
with Surin Rice Seed Center.
Pure (100%) organic manure based
production is being followed in all the
fields with enthusiastic and positive
responses from the farming community.
The smart farmers are adopting various
spacing options (25 x 25 cm, 30 x 30 cm,
40 x 40 cm etc.) between row-to-row
and plant-to-plant and are very much
She is very hopeful towards SRI practice
and learnings that would help
communities to increase their yields, by
double or even more in coming years.
keen for getting better yield and
practical learning from their field trials.
Moreover, access to irrigation canals in
the vicinity of many of the
demonstration fields eased early
season drought. Based on observation
of growth and development of crop
smart farmers and local farmers are
highly motivated and are hopeful that
SRI technology would help not only to
produce high quality organic SRI rice
but also help to cut cost and increase
net profit.
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Organic SRI taking root
in Sisaket province…
5. Thirsty Rice Fields - Lower Mekong River Basin suffers
worst drought in decades
Vulnerability of Asian agriculture is on
rise due to weather vagaries notably
water shortage for important crop like
rice. Since past many years farmers are
witnessing delayed arrival of monsoon
and also receiving patchy rainfall.
Clearly, there is disturbance in spacio-
temporal patterns of rains affecting
farming at large.
The delay are resulting in to early season
drought, late season flooding and also
affecting the growth and development
of highly preferred photosensitive rice
verities usually grown and preferred by
local and export markets.
Still many farmers in the lower mekong
region are unaware and do not have
access to modern production
technologies such as SRI for growing
healthier crops to resist uncertain
climate change condition. More hopes
still arise as better technology could
bring better yields, markets, incomes
and sufficient food supplies if all stake-
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SRI showing better tolerance to Neck Blast disease in Cambodia…
SRI grown rice is fighting the epidemic of Neck Blast
(Magnaporthe oryzae) in Kampong Speu Province,
Cambodia. Delayed rain resulted in the delayed
transplanting of rice to the month of Mid-September.
Rainfall continued until the last week creating a very
favorable micro-climate in densely planted
conventional rice in the farmer's field. 50-70% ear
heads are currently showing symptoms (drying off) in
farmer's field.
However, in the next field where FPAR is ongoing and
farmers have set-up SRI demonstration by following a
wider spaced (25 x 25 cm), single seedling, 15 days
old seedling crops, the disease incidence is only
countedin the range of 20-25%. Thus providinga very
important learningto the rice farmers in the changing
dynamics of weather patterns especially late-rainfall
and transplanted rice in Kampong Speu province.
holders involved in food supply chain
work together.
SRI-LMB project farmers and network
is leading a way on developing suit
of locally appropriate technologies
to meet these challenges in their
localities. Some of these included
changes of variety, delayed
broadcasting of seeds, delayed
transplanting, maintaining right
spacing to reduce late-season blight
problems, use of farm ponds and
many others. It is expected that during
the course of project many of these
technologies would be repeatedly
tested and validated and become
available to the rice farming
communities for ‘climate proofing’ of
their rice production.
6. Caption describing picture or graphic.
Dr. Abha Mishra, presented a paper on
"Managing rainfed production system for
contributing towards food security & rural
development through sustainable
agriculture intensification" at the 2nd
International Conference on Global Food
Security, Cornell University, Itacha, NY,
USA held from 13 to 15 October 2015. In
her presentation, she highlighted on
efforts to make SRI practices available on
wider scale to increase productivity and
economic growth of rainfed farmers for
addressing food insecurity and promote
& provide cost effective farming
techniques. She also emphasized on the
small investment needed to make the
rainfed system more productive and
resilient.
The conference aimed in achieving
global food security challenges as per
increase in demand side from impacts of
population and urbanization to innovate
research options in wider scale. The
conference also provided possible
opportunity to ensure science-oriented
supports to the advent of the sustainable
development goals.
SRI-LMB is creating
opportunity for
managing
smallholder’s
household resources
more productively
for benefiting them
and rainfed
agriculture…
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During the conference, Dr. Mishra shared
some progressive results from 60 action
research sites spread across 5 provinces in
Cambodia and Thailand under SRI-LMB
project. She presented that the net profit
achieved with SRI management was
almost double, due to the higher yield
coupled with reduced cost of seed,
seedlings, and pesticides, and also due to
the higher quality of the grain produced,
commanding a higher market price.
In addition, a seminar on "Farmer
Adaptation of SRI Methods in the Lower
Mekong Basin Region" was also organized
by Cornell University on 12 October 2015
where Dr. Mishra shared the ongoing
progress and learnings from SRI-LMB
project.
Read More at:
http://www.triplepundit.com/2015/10/intensifyin
g-rice-crop-per-drop-stop/
SRI learnings shared at the 2nd International
Conference on Global Food Security
2nd International Conference on Global Food Security,
Cornell University, Itacha, NY, USA (13 to 15 October 2015)
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Dr. Abha Mishra presenting on "Managing rainfed
production system for contributing towards food security &
rural development through sustainable agriculture
intensification"
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Thailand experienced the
worst drought in decades
resulting in huge loss of rice
crop production and
affecting many provinces
in Northern & Central
Thailand this year. Many
rice farmers were asked to
delay planting their crops
until August 2015 by Ministry
of Agriculture and
Cooperation (MoAC),
Thailand due to water
shortages and delayed
rainfall. This delay costed
about 60 billion baht ($1.8
billion) losses resulting in
heavy debts for farmers.
However, many smart
farmers in Surin, Uttaradit
and Sisaket provinces have
regularly monitored and
followed up weather
conditions from the Thai
Meteorological
Thai Smart farmers beating drought with SRI
technology
SRI-LMB welcomes
Ms. Amornpan Khoisungnoen
joined as a Training Associate for
PMU Thailand for the SRI-LMB
project. She is currently supporting
field experimentation and ensuring
data collection from field
experimentation in Uttaradit, Surin
and Sisaket provinces working
closely with Ministry of Education
(MoE), Thailand provincial teams,
Local Management Units (LMUs)
and Rice Seed Center team. She is
also responsible for documentation
of the results obtained from field
experiments. She is a graduate of
AIT from Agricultural System and
Engineering field of study.
Contact details:
Office: +66-2-524-5823
Cell: + 66833796754
E-mail: amornphan@ait.asia
This project is funded by the European Union. A project implemented by the Asian Institute of Technology.
The view expressed in this publication do not necessarily reflect the views of the European Commission.
Department using various media like radio,
weather forecast mobile apps and television.
Moreover, farmers applied various backup plans
to use adequate water in their fields by preparing
container ponds and reservoirs.
In Sisaket province, farmers used mulch, rice
straw, and plastic and also grew legumes and
vetiver grass to maintain the soil moisture. In
Uttaradit province, some smart farmers
approached governmental officials and were
supported with water supplies for irrigation
purposes.
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