Bhutan will aim to achieve 60 percent rice self-sufficiency by increasing productivity of the rice-based cropping systems in the next three years. Today the country is only 47 percent self-sufficient in rice. The country expects to increase rice yield by 15 percent, bring 50 percent of the fallow paddy fields under cultivation, and 10 percent paddy fields under spring rice cultivation. Bhutan cultivates rice on 53,055 acres and produces 85,090 MT a year and has an average yield of 1.68 MT per acre. However, this ambitious plan hinges on the approval of a joint project by Bangladesh, Bhutan and Nepal on sustainable intensification of rice-based cropping systems by the SAARC Development Fund (SDF) grant through its social window.