Exploratory Study to Illuminate the Spread of the System of Rice Intensification - Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation

WAGENINGEN, Netherlands -- A team of researchers from Wageningen University, the Netherlands, will investigate the adoption, spread and potential benefits of the System of Rice Intensification (SRI). SRI comprises a set of rice cultivation practices that differs from traditional methods, and has actively been promoted for the last decade to farmers as a ‘best management practice’ by some governments and many non-governmental development agencies, predominantly in Asia. Supported by a grant from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, the researchers will document how SRI has evolved over time in different agro-ecologies and examine the reasons underlying farmers’ adoption, nonadoption or disadoption of this practice as a method to increase their rice yields and incomes.

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