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Progress and Activities

• SRI Trials Reported from Kaduna State
Volunteer SRI coordinator working in northern Nigeria, Safdar Khalifa, has provided results of replicated trials comparing SRI vs. farmer practices in Kaduna State during the 2006 main season. The trials were managed on the rice research station of Ahmadu Bello University at Sabon Gari, in cooperation with staff of the Kaduna State Department of Agriculture and farmers in the Jaba local government area. The analysis showed a doubling of yield (from 2.91 t/ha to 5.8 t/ha) with SRI methods -- and a 45% reduction in water use, raising water productivity by more than three times. The economic analysis provided showed 62% higher net income per hectare with SRI methods. (see trial summary).

This year, trials are underway in both Kaduna and Kano states at the initiative of Khalifa, working with agriculturalists at Ahmadu Bello University and the University of Jos-Plateau State. The number of farmers who have been involved in the training and demonstration sessions already totals 287, and 34 technical staff have participated in these events. The total area of the trials is quite substantial, 132.8 hectares. Results will be reported after harvesting in September or October, depending on the time of ripening.

The State Governments in Kaduna and Kano have agreed in principle to bring Dr. Bruno Andrianaivo from Madagascar to Northern Nigeria to provide technical assistance to the SRI effort. Andrianaivo has long-acquired expertise with SRI from working with farmers as a government researcher and extension official, then doing a thesis on SRI for his PhD, and now teaching in the agriculture faculty of the University of Antananarivo. Final arrangements for his visit are being worked out by Khalifa.

• SRI Trials Initiated in Ondo State
In March, 2007, a training session for 27 farmers was organized by Engr. Adebayo Olowo at the Smedan Akure Business Support Centre in Ondo State in southwestern Nigeria. In addition to Olowo's orientation on SRI, there were presentations by the former State Commissioner of Agriculture, S. A. Olusuyi, and Charles Adeyemi, SRI coordinator for a local NGO, the Cooperative Animistic Works Society (CAWS), which will give technical support. Olowo learned about SRI through the website of the Nepal SRI network. Reports on the results of this initial application of SRI methods under the humid agroecosystems of Ondo state when they are received.

Workshops/Trainings

• A "sensitization seminar" for SRI was held March 22, 2007, at the SMEDAN AKURE Centre in Ondo.(See paragraph directly above).It was organized by the Cooperative Animistic Works Society (CAWS) and the Small and Medium Enterprises Development Agency (SMEDAN)

Reports and Articles

• 2007.Report of a sensitization seminar for the System of Rice Intensification held on March 22, 2007. Cooperative Animistic Works Society (CAWS) and the Small and Medium Enterprises Development Agency (SMEDAN). 14 p. (235 kb pdf)