Semi di Riso GmbH

In 2013 we started growing rice in Ticino for fun. Everything that could go wrong went wrong. The rice dried up, the rice was blown away by the wind, hail, it was too cold or the weeds sprouted so much that we couldn't find the rice anymore. That's how it went until about 2017 - no harvest - no success. At the same time, harvests in Thailand were declining. Most of the crop failures were caused by drought or too much rain. Many farmers who had planted brown rice had to give up because the soil around them was poisoned with pesticides and the farmers could no longer get good prices for their crops. We and some rice farmers in Thailand realized that new cultivation methods were needed! So we developed the right cultivation methods for different situations. But all of our cultivation methods have one thing in common; We rely on dry cultivation, so we need little water and are therefore climate-neutral and pesticide-free.