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The System of Rice Intensification, known by its acronym 'SRI', is gaining popularity among paddy farmers in several states. This method has the potential to improve productivity of land, capital, water and labour simultaneously. This system developed in Madagascar in the 1980s has been tried successfully in 25 countries across the world. SRI is a system of growing rice which involves principles that are at times radically different from the traditional ways of growing rice. It involves planting of single and young seedlings with care instead of conventional method of multiple and mature seedlings from the nursery. SRI spaces rice plants more widely and does not depend on continuous flooding of rice fields. It uses lesser seed, chemical inputs and promotes soil biotic activities in and around the root zone, due to liberal applications of compost and weeding with a rotating hoe that aerates the soil. These changed practices with lower inputs lead to enhanced yields with considerable savings of inputs especially the water which is becoming scarce over the years.