Rice Selection Important in Improving Yields
November 16, 2009
Beginning in October 2009, CEDAC extended its dissemination activities by contributing to a regular monthly broadcast show with CTN TV that airs every second Monday of the month.
Speaking this month on the live CTN TV show, "Internet Talk", Dr. Yang Saing Koma, CEDAC's president, talked about the benefits of good rice seed selection, emphasizing that yields can increase up to 20% because of good rice seed selection and planting. Read more...

Now is the Season for Farmers to Consider Rice Seed Selection
November 12, 2009
Dr. Yang Saing Koma, CEDAC's president, recently participated in a live talk show on Mlub Baitong (Green Shade) Radio Program on Environment. The discussion topic for this special show, which ran from 14:00 – 15:00 pm, was the System of Rice Intensification (SRI) and Dr. Yang Saing Koma was the guest speaker. Read more...

Sharing SRI Experiences Workshop
October 03, 2009
CEDAC organized a workshop to discuss the experiences and benefits of SRI practices at the Chormpul Farmer Resource Center in the Popel commune, Tramkak district of Takeo Province. There were 41 participants from 12 districts in Takeo, Kampong Speu, Kampot and Kampong Chhnang Provinces who attended the workshop facilitated by Dr. Yang Saing Koma, CEDAC president, and Professor Norman Upoff, the guest speaker from Cornell University. Read more...

Lessons Learnt and SRI Techniques Reflection from 2008-2009
To promote further advanced SRI development and application in Cambodia and to achieve better and new results, His Excellency Dr. Chan Sarun, would like to recommend as follows Read more...

Meeting on Lessons Learnt and Reflection upon SRI 2008-2009
On Friday, 21st August 2009, SRI-Secretariat of General Directorate of Agriculture of Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries (MAFF) and CEDAC with financial support from OXFAM America (OA), organized a Meeting on Lessons Learnt and Reflection upon "The System of Rice Intensification (SRI) 2008-2009" at the meeting hall of MAFF, in Phnom Penh. The meeting was chaired by the Honourable H.E Dr. Chan Sarun, Minister of MAFF. 120 people including MAFF officials from 24 provinces of Cambodia, teachers and students from the Royal University of Agriculture, Prek Leap National School of Agriculture and Kampong Cham Agriculture School, SRI farmers and a number of NGOs representatives from OA , HEKS, FAO, CEDAC and GTZ. Objectives of the meeting were to: Read more...

SRI Field Visit for Farmers from The Phillipines
From 8-18 July 2009, CEDAC Institute for Local Development (CILD) hosted a field visit for three farmers from Philippines. The objective of the mission was to learn about System of Rice Intensification (SRI) both technical and practical knowledge and the specific dissemination approach adopted by CEDAC's Cambodian farmers. Read more...

The System of Rice Intensification (SRI) Training in Pakistan
On 26th May 2009, Lok Sanjh Foundation (LSF) organized a one day training workshop on System of Rice Intensification (SRI) in relation to Biodiversity-based Ecological Agriculture (BEA) at Sheikhupura District of Pakistan. The main purpose of the workshop was to promote SRI and BEA in Pakistani Punjab's rice farming systems. Farmers from different areas of Sheikhupura who have been identified as key researcher farmers by LSF participated in the event. Read more...

• Training of Trainers Course on System of Rice Intensification (SRI)
• SRI prize 2007 report
• SRI report 2000-2007
• Final Report-SRI Adoptation Study (July 2008)
• Proposed Strategies to Utilize the Potential of Rice Production in Cambodia
• The System of Rice Intensification
• What is SRI?

Successful story of Farmer Uk Pheoun in SRI and Multi-Purpose Farm