8. Major Achievements
• NABARD has replicated SDTT SRI Model through NGO partners from
Kharif’2010 with a budgeted allocation of Rs 16 crore across 3 years.
• Moderate success has been achieved in building an alliance with the local
State Governments, in variable scales.
• The e-group (sriindia in google) started by SDTT now has over 500 members
and emerged as a platform for exchanging experience and ideas on SRI
• A common MIS has been developed by the SRI Secretariat to capture the on-
field data and to track programme progress.
• Innovations in low cost weeders & markers by the farmers has diversified the
spread of SRI and its adoption.
• SRI principles has been successfully tried in other crops such as wheat, finger
millets, Rapeseed/mustard , sugarcane and vegetables etc.
• The Secretariat has came up with the findings of the on farm research in the
form of a booklet
10. SRI-Research
• On-farm research- Involving 6 selected partners
organization in 5 states.
• Collaborative research- With BCKV, West-bengal
(Both on-station and on-farm).
• Impact of System of Root intensification (SRI) on
Soil Nutrient Status in Rice-wheat cropping system
of Plains (Gaya, Bihar) and Mountain Farms
(Uttarakhand).
