Evaluating SRI
Proponents and critics of SRI debate the claimed benefits and many questions about it remain unresolved. The International Rice Research Institute has published information on the challenges of evaluating SRI stating that "The flexibility in SRI’s definition of practices renders SRI a challenge for evaluation and assessment of adoption." Wageningen University has also published an article discussing the challenges of evaluating SRI in which one concluding sentence read: "Although the technical aspects of SRI have been contested, it clearly exists as a real social phenomenon".
The question at hand seems to be: is SRI better at delivering increased yield and other benefits to rice farmers, such as healthier soils, when compared with established recommended best management practices for rice production.
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