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Rice is grown on an estimated 155 million hectares in 114 countries, in an area lying between the latitudes 53 North and 35 South. Asia accounts for nine of the top ten riceproducing countries. Globally, 55 per cent of the area under rice cultivation, that is irrigated, contributes 75 per cent of the total rice production. Rice area in India has fluctuated fairly stably around 43 million hectares during the last two decades, with a maximum rice area of 46.67 million hectares in 2012-2012. Total rice production was also the maximum during this year (104.4 million tonnes). It is noted that rough (unhusked) rice productivity, which was at 10.02 q/ha in 1950-1951, reached a maximum of 33.03 q/ha in 2012-2013. The average rice yield in the year of 2012-13 found to be 22.28 q/ha. System of Rice Intensification (SRI) emerged in the 1980‟ s as a synthesis of locally advantageous rice production practices encountered in Madagascar by Fr Henri de Laulanie, a Jesuit Priest who had been working there since 1961 (Chourasia and Singh, 1972; Fale et al., 1985; Gupta et al., 1985). But, it is Dr. Norman Uphoff from Cornell International Institute for Food and Agriculture, Ithaca, USA, who had brought this method to the notice of outside world in the late 1990s (Anthofer, 2004). Today SRI is being adopted in many states in India and the response from farmers has been overwhelming seeing the benefits of the