2005: Highlight # 22

SRI promises massive yield improvements in paddy; but what does it actually involve? Prasad and others discuss the evolution of SRI in the Indian context...  

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Assessing SRI as a Process

Evidence from India

C. Shambu Prasad, Prajit K. Basu and Andrew Hall

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This paper brings out the untold history of SRI evolution in India.

Indian farmers have been following one or the other SRI practices since long; not because of its super yield potential but as experiments and innovations to work out local optima.

The paper emphasizes the need to evaluate SRI as a 'process' in an ‘innovation system framework’ that conventional economic evaluation tools do not provide.

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