The recommended SRI management practices for rice include: Transplanting rice seedlings when they are very young and spacing them farther apart on a regular grid rather than randomly. (This approach ...

Farmers usually plant rice seed in a seedbed, then transplant young plants into the paddies, which have about six inches of water at this stage. As the plants mature, cultivators allow the water ...

Indian Council of Agricultural Research, Annual Report, 1953–54. Ganguly, P. M., and Choudhuri, S. D., Assam Agric. Dept., Paddy Series, Bull. No. 4 (1948).

Experiment growing this staple food in containers or in the garden. Enjoy the lovely plant and expect a small harvest.