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This sounds remarkably like the methods used in Foundations for Farming,<\/a> and suggests again that it really is possible for us to help the poor feed themselves. <\/p>\n

Instead of planting three-week-old rice seedlings in clumps of three or four in waterlogged fields, as rice farmers around the world traditionally do, the Darveshpura farmers carefully nurture only half as many seeds, and then transplant the young plants into fields, one by one, when much younger. Additionally, they space them at 25cm intervals in a grid pattern, keep the soil much drier and carefully weed around the plants to allow air to their roots. The premise that \u201cless is more\u201d was taught by Rajiv Kumar, a young Bihar state government extension worker who had been trained in turn by Anil Verma of Professional Assistance for Development Action, an Indian NGO which has introduced the SRI method to hundreds of villages in the past three years.
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This sounds remarkably like the methods used in Foundations for Farming, and suggests again that it really is possible for us to help the poor feed themselves. 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