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• Update on 2007 Trials Undertaken in Cooperation with WARDA

Tim Krupnik, who is doing research on SRI for his PhD thesis in environmental studies and agroecology for the University of California, Santa Cruz, has reported on research efforts underway at the Senegal station of the African Rice Center (WARDA). In the attached report with accompanying pictures, Tim describes the the evaluation experiments now ongoing and also some planned for the future. The picture at right shows the new cono weeder that the project is evaluating. (Click on pictures to enlarge).

• The first SRI trials in Senegal were done in 2003 at the initiative of Dr. William Settle (FAO), with two sets of side-by-side comparison trials. Yield on the control plots was 4 and 5 t/ha, while that on the SRI plots was 9 and 11 t/ha, once again showing that a doubling of yield can often, not necessarily always, be obtained with SRI methods. Senegal has been included along with six other West African countries in a large FAO project receiving Dutch funding, and complementary GEF funding, for work on ecologically-sustainable agriculture. The project has provided for the training of 30,000 farmers in SRI concepts and methods. Peace Corps Volunteer Carrie Miner working at village level in Kolda region has had some initial success introducing SRI to farmers there. Her and their experience is written up in an article by Nathan McClintock in Rodale Institute's on-line magazine, The New Farm.

Reports and Articles

McClintock, Nathan C. 2006. Sustainable in Senegal: Profiles in Senegalese Regenerative Agriculture - Diabou Balde, rice farmer, Manthiankaning, Kolda region. March 9, 2006 posting in The New Farm (online). Rodale Institute. http://www.newfarm.org/international/senegal/0306/index.shtml.