Farmers making a marker for rice transplanting in Ferrier, Haiti, June 2010 [Photo by Erika Styger]
Seed sorting: soaking seeds in water, the empty seeds float on water surface and are discarded, the good seeds are soaked for 24 hours; Ferrier, Haiti, June 2010 [Photo by Erika Styger]
Pre-germination of seeds (buried in the ground for 1 day) Ferrier, Haiti, June 2010 [Photo by Erika Styger]
Pre-germinated seeds are taken out of the ground after 24 hours (rapped in a cloth) Ferrier, Haiti, June 2010 [Photo by Erika Styger]
Pre-germinated seeds; Ferrier, Haiti, June 2010 [Photo by Erika Styger]
Preparation of the SRI nursery; Ferrier, Haiti, June 2010 [Photo by Erika Styger]
Adding of manure to nursery bed, followed by tilling in the organic manure into top soil surface layer; Ferrier, Haiti, June 2010 [Photo by Erika Styger]
Seeding of pre-germinated rice seeds, distance between seeds to be one seed grain length, no one seed should touch; Ferrier, Haiti, June 2010 [Photo by Erika Styger]
Seeding pre-germinated rice seeds; Ferrier, Haiti, June 2010 [Photo by Erika Styger]
Joeli Barison - SRI trainier - is taking up the hoe to prepare a training plot for transplanting; Ferrier, Haiti, June 2010 [Photo by Erika Styger]
Training plot is being prepared (left), SRI nursery after seeding (right) - the seeds are protected with a mulch layer
Training plot is irrigated and leveled the day before transplanting; Ferrier, Haiti, June 2010 [Photo by Erika Styger]
Day of transplanting - the self-made marker is used to prepare a grid pattern that will guide the transplanting; Ferrier, Haiti, June 2010 [Photo by Erika Styger]
Transplanting at intersection of the grid (seedlings were too old - but were used for training purpose only as young seedlings were not available that day); Ferrier, Haiti, June 2010 [Photo by Erika Styger]
Trained farmers after transplanting their first SRI field; Ferrier, Haiti, June 2010 [Photo by Erika Styger]
Trainers and organizers (Joeli Barison, Jackson Nelson, Assistant Robert, and Erika Styger); Ferrier, Haiti, June 2010 [Photo by Erika Styger]
Training by Joeli Barison (on the right) of SRI transplanting in Les Cayes, June 2010 [Photo provided by Joeli Barison]
Transplanting training with a string in Les Cayes, June 2010 [Photo by Joeli Barison]
Wilsonne Supre - volunteer farmer in Les Cayes, the day of transplanting his first SRI plot, les Cayes, September 2010 [Photo by Erika Styger]
First transplanted SRI plot of Wilsonne Supre, les Cayes, September 2010 [Photo by Erika Styger]
Demonstration of cono-weeder for farmers and Taiwanese technicians; les Cayes, September 2010 [Photo by Erika Styger]
Nursery and farmer plot, ready for transplanting, for farmer Elisma, Ferrier September 2010 [Photo by Erika Styger]
Farmers in Ferrier with their SRI plot (background), and with a traditionall transplanted plot (foreground). September 2010 [Photo by Erika Styger]
Farmers in Ferrier discuss plowing and field preparation of a SRI farmer plot, Ferrier September 2010 [Photo by Erika Styger]
SRI plants and field in Verrette, Artibonite, Haiti. August 2010 [Photo by Josaphat Vilna]
SRI plants and field in Verrette, Artibonite, Haiti, with Josaphat Vilna checking on the plants, August 2010 [Photo provided by Josaphat Vilna]
Josphat Vilna's SRI plot in September 2010, high tillering of plants, Verrette, Artibonite, Haiti, September 2010 [Photo by Erika Styger]
Field visit with farmers and technicians from ODVA, government agriculture service, MCC, WINNER and Cornell University (Prof. Vilna: second from left, owner of the plot: third from left), September 2010, Verrette [Photo provided by Erika Styger]
Newly transplanted plots: SRI on the left, conventional plot on the right, shown by WINNER agronomist Max Augustin, Gonaives, September 2010 [Photo by Erika Styger]
SRI farmer plots installed by the WINNER project, Gonaives, September 2010 [Photo by Erika Styger]
SRI demonstration plots with Shela, Shelda and TCS 10 Varieties at maturity in Gonaives, September 2010 [Photo by Erika Styger]
SRI demonstration plots with TCS 20 Variety, in Mirabalais, September 2010 [Photo by Erika Styger]
SRI demonstration plots with Shela, Shelda and TCS 20 Variety, in Mirabalais, September 2010 [Photo by Erika Styger]
Joeli Barison (in blue) is visiting the Thorbeck Plane Rice Project assisted by Taiwanese in Les Cayes, Haiti, June 2010 [Photo provided by Joeli Barison]
Two cono-weeders, in the back a model provided by the Taiwanese who imported it from Domenican Republic, in the front, locally manufactured weeder ( metal used was heavier, thus weeder operation became more difficult compared to Taiwanese weeder), Les Cayes, Haiti, September 2010 [Photo by Erika Styger]
First National SRI Colloquium, representatives from USAID, WINNER, SRI-Rice, Better U Foundation, private sector and Jim Carrey are visiting a SRI demonstration plot in Montruis (March 30, 2011), [Photo by Sonia Malebranche]
First National SRI Colloquium, Jim Carrey is greeting the SRI field technician Jean Buddy Lycien, in company of SRI trainer and consultant Joeli Barison. (March 30, 2011), [Photo by Sonia Malebranche]
Attending a two-day National Colloquium on SRI in Haiti at the end of March 2011 are Jim Carrey (left) from the Better U Foundation, Erika Styger (center), Director of SRI-Rice, and Jean Robert Estime (right) , head of the WINNER project. [Photo by Sonia Malebranche]
John Joliffe, Better U Foundation (left), Erika Styger (center), SRI Rice, and Jim Carrey (right), Better U Foundation, at a 2 day SRI Colloquium in Haiti during March 2011 [Photo by Sonia Malebranche]
Jim Carrey discussing SRI in the field and Joeli Barison, SRI specialist from Madagascar; March 30, 2011, [Photo by Sonia Malebranche]
Minister of Agriculture of Haiti, Joanas Gué and Jim Carrey, after the closing ceremony of the 2-day National SRI Colloquium, in Montruis, Haiti, March 30, 2011, [Photo by Sonia Malebranche]
Traditional rice transplanting; Montruis, Haiti, March 30, 2011, [Photo by Sonia Malebranche]
Traditional rice nursery, Ferrier, June 2010, (Photo by Erika Styger)
Conventional transplanting, In Gonaives, September 2011, (Photo by Erika Styger)
Newly transplanted conventional rice field, Ferrier, June 2010, (Photo by Erika Styger)
Conventional rice field, Ferrier, June 2010, (Photo by Erika Styger)
