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• Ecuador Joins the "SRI Club"
Jorge Gil Chang, director of the NGO Fundacion para el Desarollo Agricola del Ecuador (FUNDEC), has reported on first-season trials in Ecuador, conducted in 2008 on a 1200 m2 plot, using 10-day seedlings and 40x40 cm spacing. The paddy yield with SICA/SRI methods was 8.8 t/ha, compared with 2.3 t/ha on the adjacent control plot with conventional methods, and 3.8 t/ha as the national average yield in Ecuador. The conventional methods included 5 plant per hill, and 25x30 cm spacing, so the plant population was 10 times greater than with SICA/SRI. A second crop evaluated the effects of 1 vs. 2 seedlings per hill using SICA methods. Sterile spikelets were, respectively, 3 and 5.5%, and grains per panicle were 140 vs. 127, respectively. In his SRI trials, Jorge and colleagues are using azolla and Effective Microorganisms (EM). (see Spanish language FUNDEC report for more information)

Jorge Gil Chang has also written a 68 page booklet (Cultivo de Arroz Sistema Intesificado SICA-SRI En Ecuador) that provides an overview of SRI globally as well as current research and potential for further developing SRI in Ecuador.

Reports and Presentations

Gil Chang, Jorge V. 2008. Cultivo de Arroz Sistema Intesificado SICA-SRI En Ecuador. Experiencia Dedicada a los Pequeños Agricultores de Arroz. FUNDEC. Admicorporacion. Ecuador. 68 p. (1.27 MB pdf)

Gil Chang, Jorge V. 2008. Breve reseña del Sistema Intensificado del Cultivo de Arroz (SICA / SRI): Primera validación para pequeños productores en Ecuador, Guayaquil, Ecuador. Fundación para el Desarrollo Agrícola del Ecuador (FUNDEC). 2p (pdf)

Gil Chang, Jorge V. 2008 (May). Metode de siembra originado en Madagascar: Sistema Intensificado del Cultivo de Arroz (SICA / SRI) en Ecuador. 18 slides (pdf version of a PowerPoint presentation)