EXPERIENCE OF PROMOTING SYSTEM OF EXPERIENCE OF PROMOTING SYSTEM OF

RICE INTENSIFICATION (SRI) TECHNOLOGY RICE INTENSIFICATION (SRI) TECHNOLOGY

WITH SMALL AND MARGINAL FARMERS WITH SMALL AND MARGINAL FARMERS

Supported by SDTT

Content

Context The Project Implementation – Approach &

Process Achievement Learning Plan

Context

High concentration of extremely poor communities Undulating and hilly topography Average annual rainfall of 1400 mm, high runoff Vulnerable farming systems, monsoon dependent, low

yielding (1/3rd of country average )and mono cropped, Paddy accounts for 85 to 90% of gross cropped area

About 60% of the tribal community face food grain scarcity for 6-9 months

An average a family harvests 1 ton of paddy every year whereas requirement is 2 ton

High dependence on fast depleting forest resources High incidences of distress migration and

indebtedness

Agro climatic zones and Land use

Northern Hills Zone

Chhattisgarh Plains Zone

Bastar Plateau Zone

Opportunities

Enhancing the productivity of land, water and agriculture are the obvious avenues to improve livelihoods and reduce poverty.

Need for intervention in Kharif Paddy low yields in the range of 1-2 tons per hectare small and marginal farmers could manage food grain

sufficiency of 3-6 months from own cultivation farmers in this region are unable to transplant timely

due to unpredictable monsoon Challenge was at least to double the productivity-

increased to 5MT/ha leading to food-grain sufficiency for 8-9 months

The Project

Aims to: Enhance paddy productivity from the current 2-3 tonnes

per hectare by 75-100% which will ensure year-round food sufficiency for the participant families

Support 12 NGOs to introduce the SRI technique to 13500 families in 11 districts (8500 families in 2nd year)

Duration of the Project – 3 Years Budget : 71.17 Lakh INR (for 2nd year)

 

Coverage (2011-12)

11 districts 303 villages 13 NGOs 10070 families

(In Kharif SRI) 1500 families in

the rabi under SRI-paddy, wheat, mustard & millets

Kharif SRI (2011-12)

31% increase in number of villages 5829 Farmers (new) adopted the SRI

technology 4241 Farmers (old) are the 2nd time adopter

of the SRI technology 78% Families are adopting the technology

for the 2nd time 53.10% families adopted organic process. 82.07% families are small & marginal. 17.64% increase in average area per

family.

Process followed

Contextual to location : socio-economic status of the community, agricultural skill , existing institutions and PRADAN’s perspective.

Approach of PRADAN

PEOPLE

RESOURCES

INSTITUTIONS

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Approach for Extension

• Demonstration• Guided exposures with AV aids• Sensitizing women SHG members• Enable resource persons with technology and

communication skills• Hands on training and support to SHG families• Emphasis to minimize dropouts & enhance area

saturation• Development of POP and kits for easy delivery of

technology and inputs• Collaboration with the Department of Agriculture • Availability of weeders

SRI steps followed by farmers

Seed rate 5 kg/ha Seed sorting (brine) and treatment

(Carbendazim) Transplantation of young seedling(8-14 days old),

two leaf stage. Single seedling transplantation with soil, no

damage to root system Square transplantation, 16 -25 seedling sq meter Thin film (<1inch) water maintained in the field Weeding at least twice using rotary weeders

(Ambica weeder) Increased use of compost and organic farming

materials

Field observation:

Good crop growth in Surguja & Jashpur districts Crops effected for calamities in Bastar division

& (Bilaspur-Raigarh) region. Pest infestation increased in Bastar districts,

mainly due to late transplantation, delayed rain At least two times weeding done in 82.31 % of

fields. Complete saturation observed for some villages

& some cases 100 % families has done it 2nd time(eg.-Bachalikhurd,Bilaspur).

Training details till January’12

Training & Exposure Plan (Year

1)

Achiev.

(Year 1)

Plan (Year

II)

Achiev. (Year

II)

Awareness Generation (No. of event)

67 121 117 149

Exposure to local demonstration (No. of person)

1000 1910 1400 1059

Training & on-field support to farmers ( No. of farmers)

3000 6458 5100 8413

Training of village resource person ( No. of person)

100 72 170 76

Organise SRI-Adhivesan(No of event)

13 13 21 6

Achievement

10070 families 2058 Ha (0.20 Ha per

farmer) Average yield 6.46

Mt/ha (Analysis of 2825 Sample),Millets-3MT/ha

Highest yield is 15.20 Mt/ha

Cover 1500 families

270 ha of land (0.18 Ha per family)

Kharif (2011) Rabi(2011-12)

Outreach – NGO-wiseNGOs Dist Covered Family

covered(No)

Area Covered(Ha)

Area per family Ha)

AASHA SRG 1000 191.84 0.19

APSSS SRG 1207 268.51 0.22

SSGVS SRG,RIG,JSH 812 130.96 0.16

CGVSS SRG 1000 249.26 0.25

GVK JSH 729 185.85 0.25

CARMADAKSH

BSP 835 181.96 0.22

NSSS BSP,KRB 367 57.24 0.16

ASORD GBD, KNK 515 53.74 0.11

SSSS KNK,BST 722 190.43 0.26

BSM KNK,BST 615 119.20 0.20

DHS BST 70 12.21 0.17

KARMA SRG 700 96.34 0.14

PRADAN RIG,BST,DHT,KNK

1498 320 0.21

TOTAL 10070 2058 0.20

District wise

coverage

Analysis of Productivity

Prod. (MT/ha)

No. of Families

Percentage

15-18 1 0.04

10-15 59 2.09

8-10 382 13.52

6-8 1020 36.11

4-6 1236 43.75

2-4 125 4.42

0-2 2 0.07

Total 2825 100

What does it mean for a rural family Av.

Production

(MT/ha)- SRI- 6.46;

Traditional- 2.1

Lessons Learnt

Adoption of technology in area saturation mode maximum with small & marginal families

Pool of CSPs and Coordinators

Use of farm implements and organic products

Linkages and recognition from Govt.

Chattisgarh SRI munch

Quality of weeder & scarcity of outlet

Ensuring timely transplantation

Maintaining timeline Influence the farmers

towards organic farming.

Reducing the rainfall risk

What went well Challenges faced

Proved suitable for marginals Most of the principles are easily manageable .

The production enhancement directly addresses the food grain deficit part of the family.

The farmers’ friendly package is very easy for them to capture.

Produce a discipline agriculture & drop out only 2.74% among the marginal's.

Experience of Patnership- Chhattishgarh SRI Manch

Formed with the objective to share and disseminate lessons from the project with various stakeholders as well as monitoring the progress

Comprises of 13 NGOs Quarterly meeting Sharing of Innovations and Learning Sharing on convergence of SRI with other

schemes. Emerging as a forum for policy advocacy

Working in non Isolation – Partnership / Convergence Belief Level of Confidence

Green Manure crop in SRI-paddy field before sowing at Bastar

Concept sharing on SRI in Surguja among the farmers

Seed Treatment in Surguja

Seed Bed in Bastar

Drainage channel preparation in Surguja

Field preparation by Marker in Surguja

Scooping from seedbed in Jashpur

Transplantation in Surguja

Transplanted field in Jashpur

Weeding operation in Bastar

Paddy plant having 82 tillers in Surguja

Standing crop in Bastar

Mature crop at Kanker

Crop cutting for Sample collection in Surajpur

Exposure programe in Surguja

Kisan mela in Surguja

Newspaper publication

Publication on KISAN MELA

Publication on yield success

Next action plan(1st February 2012 to 31st July 2012)

Follow up of existing kharif crop; help the partners in data collection through MIS and analyse it.

Facilitate the government officials to certify the best yield of farmers at block and district level.

Training of partners on rabi & summer crops and ensuring on field support.

Organise exposures, kisan days & workshops in Gram Panchayet, Block, District and State level with the involvement of different government officials.

Plan for next year (2012-13) with 13,500 families in 2255 Ha of land in paddy, millets, wheat & mustard.

Facilitate more farmers in organic based farming approach through proper handholding. Create awareness of farmers in land husbandry along with crop husbandry.

Documentation on the learning of the project & partnership approach. Facilitate the partners to go for intensive land and water based

activities to mitigate the risk of water scarcity on several crops in year round basis.

 

Miles to go……

………… to address the issue of food grain security

PRADAN 2011

Many thanks for your attention