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Pouk La

Pouk La is a Champion Farmer in Takeo province, Cambodia. She’s been practising the System of Rice Intensification, or SRI, since 2008 and for much of that time, she has also been encouraging others in her village and in neighbouring villages to come and see her fields and follow her example. People don’t need much […]

Nilima

It’s dusk and that point in the day when all is still but for the occasional distant clatter of pans or the whoops of a few children still at play. The sun stretches shadows across the fields as the cows are being brought in from pasture. From nowhere, the tranquillity is shattered by the blast […]

Srey Lak

Srey Lak is a former rice worker. It’s three years since she was able to work in the fields though. The skin on her hands is now so fragile she cannot bear the pain of plunging them into the contaminated waters of the flooded paddy fields. Some of the women in nearby villages, though, have […]

Phumani

Phumani is aged and has trouble with her memory. “I can’t remember much about my childhood work,” she says, struggling to make herself comfortable in her plastic chair “but I started transplanting when I was about this high.” Her hand hovers less than 4 feet above the floor and a hushed amusement ripples through the […]

Rampung

Rampung Sorathaworn is a farmer from Surin province, Thailand. She tried out SRI for the first time two years ago, transplanting very young single seedlings in a widely spaced grid, following advice provided by the EU-funded, region-wide SRI-LMB programme. But she wasn’t sure that she had made the right decision when she began to hear […]

Sastri

Sastri Sandha, a member of the milkmaid caste, lives in the rural Sundargarh district, Orissa. Now over 30 years of age, unmarried and landless, she counts among some of the most vulnerable of India’s 1.3 billion citizens. But in the dappled light under the mango tree where we chat, this strong, healthy and eloquent lady […]

Ong Ol

It’s transplanting season here in Pursat province, Cambodia and across south and southeast Asia. The air is thick with the mists rising from flooded paddy fields as the extreme heat evaporates yesterday’s rain. Conditions are stifling, yet across vast swathes of countryside, women are bent double, transplanting the rice seedlings that will produce over 700 […]

Neema

Neema’s story will be up soon!! Please keep checking back!!

Phally

Phally’s story will be up soon!! In the meantime, here’s her story from Oxfam America: How A Daughter In Cambodia Demonstrates To Her Parents That New Ways Of Growing Rice Can Double a Harvest, Even If You Plant Fewer Seeds

Ahalya

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Gaseri

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Prem

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Tipu

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Mohini

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Chandrabati

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Pobitra

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Debaki

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Dokkeo

Dokkeo’s story will be up soon!! In the meantime, she featured on the front page of Fair World Project’s latest publication. It features a story from Lotus Foods about why they support SRI and the benefits it brings to women: Changing How Rice is Grown Around the World