• DOI:10.3763/ijas.2003.0105
Corpus ID: 153721720

Higher Yields with Fewer External Inputs? The System of Rice Intensification and Potential Contributions to Agricultural Sustainability

@article{Uphoff2003HigherYW,
  title={Higher Yields with Fewer External Inputs? The System of Rice Intensification and Potential Contributions to Agricultural Sustainability},
  author={N. Uphoff},
  journal={International Journal of Agricultural Sustainability},
  year={2003},
  volume={1},
  pages={38 - 50}
}

• N. Uphoff
• Published 2003
• Business
• International Journal of Agricultural Sustainability

Although sustainable agriculture is not limited to production systems that use few or no purchased inputs, systems that are less dependent on external inputs have better prospects for sustainability—as long as they can meet the needs of producers and consumers as well as do conventional systems depending heavily on fossil fuel and other capital-intensive inputs. The system of rice intensification (SRI) developed in Madagascar can raise irrigated rice yields to about double the present world… Expand