Saraka sowing: the production of General Rabemanantsoa Robert reached more than 15 tons. Senior retired officer who held a senior position in the Malagasy army at the time. Interested in growing rice.

He first turned the swamp into a paddy field, and the results in the southern district of Antananarivo impressed those who saw him. Neighboring farmers were even more surprised to see their rice harvest this year despite water problems in southern Antananarivo; a district that has suffered the most from the lack of water to irrigate the rice fields due to the delay in rainfall in Analamanga.

General Rabemanantsoa Robert has proven that climate change is not an obstacle and a problem in production, but that a creative mind is needed to develop production technology in order to achieve good results. He applied his research, SARAKA seedlings. A technique that he imagined in collaboration and conversation with Father Henri de Laulanier, but improved thereafter, and that he applied to the previous agricultural year.

General Rabemanantsoa Robert's harvest this year was 15 tons per hectare. He planted in November and used SARAKA seedlings. The sown rice was watered until it rained, so observers had little confidence in its potential success. This was not the case, however, as the SARAKA seedlings he applied were bearing fruit. Coinciding with the knowledge of the life of rice, this SARAKA seedling called Papa Bio or Ranaivoarisoa Basile. Farmers need to know what the life of rice is like if they want to increase rice yields. The problems have yet to be resolved with us.