Mozambique

Progress and Activities

• Zelia Menete, a faculty member of the Eduardo Mondlane University, currently studying for a PhD. in crop and soil sciences at Cornell, is currently conducting SRI research in Mozambique for her thesis. She is studying the performance of SRI on saline soils, which present a particular challenge to Mozambiquan rice farmers. The initial results, from her first season of trials in 2003-2004, are very positive, though they need to be confirmed by a second season of trials, now underway. Whereas the average irrigated rice yield on good soil, using fertilizer inputs, is about 3 t/ha in Mozambique, these SRI trial results ranged from 3-4 t/ha to 8 t/ha using only organic inputs and less water (see preliminary report).

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