SRI State Workshop

NABARD, Ranchi

A workshop was organized by NABARD, Ranchi on 6th of Jan, 2012.

It was attended by the Chief Minister of Jharkhand, Mr. Arjun Munda and by the well renowned expert on SRI, Dr. Norman Uphoff. Norman Uphoff (born 1941) is an American social scientist serving as a Professor of Government and International Agriculture at Cornell University. He is the Acting Director of the Cornell Institute of Public Administration and the former director of the Cor-nell International Institute for Food, Agriculture, and Development.

The special aspect of SRI is the new paradigm shift it talks about, a fact which many in the scientific commu-nity is yet to grasp. The paradigm shift is about thinking of crop production more from the viewpoint of biology rather than a more viewpoint of chemistry which came into vogue after the second World War.

In fact the entire world is seeing a shift from understanding the world from a mechanistic viewpoint to a more complex, networked and living systems viewpoint of Biology. This is being applied in systems as diverse as management and marketing.

At NEEV we are glad that we were able to contribute to this movement in whatever capacity we could.

SRI Kharif 2011— The Story Does Not End

Special points of interest:

SRI is going to her-ald the next green revolution

Prof Norman Uphoff—World Re-nowned Expert on SRI comes to NABARD workshop and speaks on SRI

SRI is a paradigm change which brings the focus back from chemical inputs to the knowledge of the farmer to increase food security for the modern world.

SRI can be tried for other crops and even vegetables

Prof Norman says that the new para-digm for agriculture would be based on biology rather than chemistry. Plant pro-duction is affected by micro-organisms in soil more than minerals

SRI Kharif Crops in NEEV Project Area Fields

9TH JAN, 2012

Prof. Norman Uphoff - World’s Foremost Expert on SRI

SRI State Workshop organized by NABARD, Ranchi