(Photo by SRD)

SRD has helped transferred SRI skills since 2008 in Thai Nguyen and Phu Tho through training provided for technical officers and farmer trainers. As a result, 7900 farming households were able to apply SRI across 1900 ha in the summer cultivation season of 2010.
SRI has proved to be of economic, social and environmental effectiveness as it helps reduce famers' input of seedlings by 75%, and their input of irrigation water, fertilizer and pesticide by 33% while at the same time increasing yields by 17%. "Easy yet effective", as farmer remarked in the sharing workshop on SRI in Thai Nguyen and Phu Tho.