September 26, 2011
September 26, 2011
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Summarizing two National level consortiums on the System of Rice Intensification that were held in New delhi in october 2010 and march 2011. this article highlights the way forward for spreading the use of SRI in the country.
September 24, 2011
Pratyay Jagannath September 24, 2011
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Jayjeet’s journey proves that one is never too young to be an agent of change; most essential is the inclination to identify methods, the conviction that old ways must give way to newer, more cost-effective ways to ensure food sufficiency, and the spirit to take calculated risks
September 10, 2011
Dip Narayan Banerjee September 10, 2011
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Considering the urgent need to find ways to grow more rice, with less water and fewer inputs, the SRI method is proving to be of considerable advantage in exponentially increasing paddy output.
September 2, 2011
Anil Verma September 2, 2011
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Following the success of SRI and SWI, similiar methodologies were applied to different crops, resulting in the considerable increase in the yield of each.
August 18, 2011
B.C. Barah August 18, 2011
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Low productivity and large regional differences in yield imply that there is ample scope to increase production and bridge the yield gaps.
August 2, 2011
Kuntal Mukherjee August 2, 2011
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Promoting SRI with about 13,500 families, covering about 340 villages in nine districts across the northern hills, the plains and the Bastar plateau region of the Chhattisgarh state seems to have paid rich dividends by way of doubling yield and food grain sufficiency.
August 2, 2011
Rahul Kumar August 2, 2011
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Combining several innovative practices, SRI is a different way of cultivating rice, including changes in nursery management, in the time of transplantation, and in water and weed management, which could well easily counter the sideeffects of the Green Revolution
July 23, 2011
July 23, 2011
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The willingness to take risks and experiment with innovative methods, with the backing and guidance of professionals, proves to be life-changing for the tribals of Koraput district and especially one family…
July 9, 2011
Anil Verma July 9, 2011
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Introducing and promoting SRI involved phased training, detailed planning and handholding of farmers who were only used to traditional ways of cultivation.
July 9, 2011
Gaurav Kumar Agarwal July 9, 2011
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“It is an explosive situation in India today as far as agriculture is concerned and the farmers are concerned, with the employment rates in rural areas being the lowest since the late 1990s. We keep hearing about huge displacements due to dam-building or canal-digging, but let me tell you the biggest displacement is in agriculture where the largest mass migration in the history is beginning to unfold, following displacement of people from their land…”