Henri de Laulanie

Henri de Laulanié, or more exactly Henri de Laulanié de Sainte-Croix (February 22, 1920 in Poitou, France – June 23, 1995 in Madagascar) was a French Jesuit father who was responsible for understanding in the 1980s the rice cultivation method known as the System of Rice Intensification (SRI).

He was trained as agronomist at the famous "Institut national agronomique" (INA) in Paris (promotion 1938).[1] He gained knowledge of the physiology of rice tillering thanks to a document capitalising on rice yield components analysis published by French NGO GRET and mentioning the work of the Japanese scientist Katayama on the rice phyllochrones[2] published in 1951.

Father de Laulanié arrived on Madagascar in 1961. As rice was the staple food of the Malagasy people, he set about trying to help farmers increase their rice production (amongst other crops).

In 1981 de Laulanie founded an agricultural school at Antsirabe to help educate the young.[3] SRI was first developed in 1983, however the system was not fully tested until some years later.

De Laulanie died in 1995 - his grave is located in the cemetery at Ambohipo.[4]

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References

  1. ↑ See for instance “Annuaire des diplômés AgroParisTech 2014”, p. 379.
  2. ↑ See Henri de Laulanié , Le riz à Madagascar. Un développement en dialogue avec les paysans, Editions Karthala/Editions Ambozontany, p. 66. The GRET document's title is “L’analyse de l’élaboration du rendement du riz” and was edited in January 1987 by a young French agronomist, himself from the same institution as de Laulanié, promotion 1983
  3. ↑ School. Accessed 1 April 2016
  4. ↑ Founder. Accessed 1 April 2016

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