system of rice intensification

Discover how Nivaje, a village in Maharashtra, is on its way to becoming carbon neutral through biogas, bamboo farming, and chemical-free agriculture.

Debashish Sen introduced the System of Rice (or Root) Intensification (SRI) technique to farmers in Uttarakhand, Himachal Pradesh and Madhya Pradesh in 2006, which was originally invented in the 1980s in Madagascar.

And it also the reduces the methane footprint of paddy farming, thus helping in tackling global warming!

Gacherigaon village located in Mundigarh gram panchayat in Tumudibandh block of Kandhamal district, Odisha, uses the system of rice intensification (SRI) for paddy cultivation. This is how it works.