1. EXPERIENCE OF PROMOTING SYSTEM OF
RICE INTENSIFICATION (SRI) TECHNOLOGY
WITH SMALL AND MARGINAL FARMERS
Supported by SDTT

2. Content
 Context
 The Project
 Implementation – Approach & Process
 Achievement
 Learning
 Plan

3. 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

4. Agro climatic zones and Land use
Northern
Hills Zone
Chhattisgarh
Plains Zone
Bastar Plateau
Zone

5. 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

6. 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)

7. 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

8. 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.

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

10. Approach of PRADAN
RESOURCES
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PEOPLE δ
PRADAN
INSTITUTIONS

11. 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

12. 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

13. 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).

14. Training details till January’12
Training & Exposure Plan Achiev. Plan Achiev.
(Year 1) (Year 1) (Year II) (Year II)
Awareness Generation (No. of 67 121 117 149
event)
Exposure to local demonstration 1000 1910 1400 1059
(No. of person)
Training & on-field support to 3000 6458 5100 8413
farmers ( No. of farmers)
Training of village resource person 100 72 170 76
( No. of person)
Organise SRI-Adhivesan(No of 13 13 21 6
event)

15. Achievement
Kharif (2011) Rabi(2011-12)
 10070 families  Cover 1500 families
 2058 Ha (0.20 Ha
per farmer)  270 ha of land (0.18
 Average yield 6.46 Ha per family)
Mt/ha (Analysis of
2825
Sample),Millets-3MT/h
a
 Highest yield is 15.20

16. Outreach – NGO-wise
NGOs Dist Covered Family Area Area per
covered(No) Covered(Ha) 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

18. District wise
coverage

19. Analysis of Productivity
Prod. No. of Percen
(MT/ha) Families tage
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

21. What does it mean for a rural family
Av.
Production
(MT/ha)-
SRI- 6.46;
Traditional
- 2.1

22. Lessons Learnt
What went well Challenges faced
 Adoption of technology in  Quality of weeder &
area saturation mode scarcity of outlet
maximum with small &  Ensuring timely
marginal families transplantation
 Pool of CSPs and  Maintaining timeline
Coordinators  Influence the farmers
 Use of farm implements towards organic farming.
and organic products  Reducing the rainfall risk
 Linkages and recognition
from Govt.
 Chattisgarh SRI munch

23. 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.

24. 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

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

26. Concept sharing on SRI in Surguja
among the farmers

27. Seed Treatment in Surguja

28. Seed Bed in Bastar

29. Drainage channel preparation in
Surguja

30. Field preparation by Marker in
Surguja

31. Scooping from seedbed in Jashpur

32. Transplantation in Surguja

33. Transplanted field in Jashpur

34. Weeding operation in Bastar

35. Paddy plant having 82 tillers in
Surguja

36. Standing crop in Bastar

37. Mature crop at Kanker

38. Crop cutting for Sample collection
in Surajpur

39. Exposure programe in Surguja

40. Kisan mela in Surguja

41. Newspaper publication
Publication on KISAN MELA Publication on yield success

42. 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.


43. Miles to go……
………… to address the issue of food grain security

44. Many thanks
for your
attention
PRADAN 2011