Last September, I attended a Peace Corps Training in Benin on a new method of rice cultivation, called System of Rice Intensification (SRI). My counterpart Conde and I will be holding a big training this summer at a national agricultural school. Over 40 students and professors will attend and most of the training will be hands-on, allowing us to set up a demonstration plot comparing SRI and current practices. We will then invite other community members, researchers from the local agricultural center, Eaux et Forets officials, agricultural extension agents, average farmers, to visit our plot and talk to them about the benefits of SRI.
Transplanting rice at the training in Benin
Anyways, NPR recently posted something about SRI on their website and I thought I would share it with anyone who is interested.
http://www.npr.org/blogs/thesalt/2013/05/03/180821486/unraveling-the-mystery-of-a-rice-revolution?sc=17&f=1001
It's kind of cool when stuff we're doing over here in "no-one's-ever-heard-of-that-country" Guinea is also being talked about on NPR.
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