Career
He was trained as agronomist at the famous "Institut national agronomique" (INA) in Paris (promotion 1938). He gained knowledge of the physiology of rice tillering thanks to a document capitalising on rice yield components analysis published by French non-governmental organization GRET and mentioning the work of the Japanese scientist Katayama on the rice phyllochrones 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. Socially Responsible Investment 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.