1. Experience & Innovations on
SRI by JEETA, ODISHA
Supported by SDTT,Mumbai

2. OBJECTIVES
• Build up 3200 farmers as
skilled by sharing
experience on SRI by
training, exposure & cross
visits
• Increase economic status
of farmers by enhancing
production from small
patches of land by
adopting SRI

3. STRATEGIES
• Capacity building
• Institution building
• IEC materials
• Cadre building
• Sharing of knowledge
through exposure
• Liasioning with experts
• Lobby & advocacy to
mobilize resources from
Govt.department

4. Year wise presentation of SRI & SWI
0
500
1000
1500
2000
2500
3000
3500
2009 2010 2011 2012
Farmer
Acrage
Year
Farmer Acre
2009 139 35
2010 715 248.45
2011 1883 1044.45
2012 3188 2004

5. AREA COVERED
Year No of District No of Blocks No of Gps No of village
2009- 2010 1 1 3 13
2010-2011 2 2 9 35
2011-2012 2 2 9 40
2012-2013 2 2 16 59

6. Convergence with ATMA
• 1035 farmers in 1000
acres covered in Deogarh
& Angul District
• Farmers capacity building
training organized 2500
farmers trained on SRI
• 300 weeders & 50
markers provided to
farmers
• 15 quintals of bio fertilizer
provided to farmers &
support provided to use
chemical fertilizer

7. Collaboration with NABARD
• 10 Farmers Club linked
with NABARD

8. Input Support
• 440 mandawa weeder,92
markers, 292 finger
weeders provided to
farmers
• 42.80 quintals of dhanicha
seeds provided for green
manuring
• 40 vermi compost pits
provided
• 27 seeds banks formed
• 4 pump sets provided to
farmers
• 8 resource centres formed

9. Institution building
• 9 GP level farmers federation & 2
Block level farmers federation formed
• 4 farmers club got seed support
&training from block agrl dept. for
mustard & green gram ,crop in Rabi
for 160 acres
• 1farmers club got contract from agrl.
Department for organising training
on watermelon cultivation
• 6 farmers club have created their
group fund & decided to purchase
power weeder
• 1 farmers club mobilized NFSM rice
scheme through which they
purchased transplanter with
subsidize rate

10. Documentation & field visit
• Farmers profile, case
studies collected &
documented.
• SRI land monitored &
suggestion given to
farmers
• Field visit made by
livolink Foundation &
Govt agricultural
department
• MIS record
maintenance

11. Yield information
Slno. Variety
of seed
used
Highest
tiller
Lowest
tiller
Highest
panicle
Lowest
Panicle
Highest
Yield (in
quintal
per Ac)
Lowest
yield (in
quintal
per Ac)
1 Nabin 65 22 41 22 27.5 13.6
2 Pooja 62 19 41 30 25.2 12.2
3 Swarna 68 17 39 20 25.6 11.4
4 1010 49 21 30 19 21 14
5 Bikram 35 18 21 18 17.6 10
6 Parbati 50 20 35 20 24 12.4

12. Yield information
Slno. Variety
of seed
used
Highest
tiller
Lowest
tiller
Highest
panicle
Lowest
Panicle
Highest
Yield (in
quintal
per Ac)
Lowest
yield (in
quintal
per Ac)
7 1025 46 18 22 20 20.5 18.2
8 1030 33 17 20 11 16 10
9 Lalat 39 15 20 10 19.2 12.9
10 Kalacha
mpa
44 16 21 11 19.2 11
11 Ganjeijat
a
36 19 19 10 18 9
12 1001 36 18 22 9 17 9.5
13 Prava 38 17 21 10 18 9
14 Khandagi
ri
38 18 21 16 17.5 11.2

13. SWI/SCI
Crop
Space
between line
Space between Yield /acre Seed
Conv
en
SRI Conven SRI Conve
n
SRI Conve
n
SRI
Wheat broad
cast
8 No
space
maintai
ned
8 8quint
al
17.75 20kg 6 kg
Sunflower 1ft 2ft 1ft 1.5ft 320
gram
per
1kg
7ml oil
from
1kg of
seeds
5kg 2kg
Mustard No
space
8
inch
4.5qui
ntal
7.5qui
ntal
4kg 800
gm

14. SWI process adopted in rabi

15. Sun flower cultivation following SRI
principles

16. SRI principles

17. Innovation

18. Preparation of organics

19. Issues
• Irregular rain fall
• Transplantation of over
aged seedlings
• Untimely rain fall results
more pest & diseases
• Dis adoption due to
irregular rain fall
• Farmers incentive by
govt,

20. Recommendations
• SRI Should be treat as a campaign not as a
program to enhance the popularity
• More women farmers should involve &
felicitate as SRI farmer
• Mobilization of govt. schemes through
farmers clubs
• Crop intensification through out the year

21. SRI farmers(MELA) convention

22. THANKS