Yes, SRI rice paddy fields are flooded requiring sufficient water (no more and no less). The water is also used by farmers for the cultivation of Nila fish on the same land. Great land uses two for one!
Tovan and the farmers had been trained on micro projects funded by MicroAid donor in January 2010 ago and right now they're waiting for the harvest time in the coming days. The concept of land use for two different products at the same time has never carried out by local farmers. When the program is successful, then this concept will be passed on to farmers in other villages and even beyond the province of Aceh.
See their micro projects on: http://www.microaid.org/?q=content/training-fish-breeding-rice-paddy-fields
Foot note
Tovan Marhennata is a graduate student who has decided to take his agricultural skills back to the village where he grew up. Tovan wants to become a successful organic entrepreneur and at the same time eradicate poverty for the community of his birth.
Aceh, and particular the highland areas where Tovan is working, has been racked by conflict for decades. Tovan is determined to show a peaceful example of how poverty and hardship can overcome without conflict and weapons but by hand hoes and exciting new small holder’s technologies. These technologies are developed in other areas but now available globally through the power of the Internet. SRI Rice growing techniques were developed in Madagascar in the late 1990s.
MicroAid is sponsoring Tovan as Community Facilitation Partner in this challenge.
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