Brazil

Progress and Activities

• Farmer Validates SRI Methods in State of Rio Grande do Sul
In July 2007, Andre Goncalves, on leave from the Centro Ecologico while doing a PhD in Natural Resources for Cornell University, introduced SRI methods to a farmer who had previously collaborated with his NGO and who was acquainted with agroecological methods. Sr. Juarez (shown at right) became, as far as we know, the first Brazilian farmer to use SRI methods. He reports considerable success, getting a paddy yield twice what he was obtaining before (click on photo to enlarge). Centro Ecologico has facilitated agroecologically-oriented farmers from many communities to come and see Juarez’s results and expects that there will be rapid spread among these skilled and motivated farmers.

• In September 2002, Prof. Erick Fernandes from Cornell University made a plenary presentation on SRI to a large agroecology congress in Rio del Sul, having made previous presentations on SRI to EMBRAPA researchers who expressed some interest. However, we have had no reports of results from Brazil so far.are no reports on SRI results from Ghana, successful or not.

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