Meeting present and potential partners in Bihar forn exploring future scaleup opportunities. Meeting was organised at ICAR RCER.

1. CSISA STAKEHOLDERS WORKSHOP
R.K.MALIK AND ANDREW McDonald
CISISA- BIHAR

2. EXPERIENCES OF FIRST PHASE
• CA reduces the cost of
cultivation.
• High cost of fertilizer and
diesel cancels out the
gains.
• Farmers prefer no risk
theory
• Productivity must
increase to sustain
• Correct the bad
sequencing of RWCS

3. Issues
• Prone to floods or even drought LIKE (
2009, 2012)in the rainy season
• More number of small farmers at any
site
• Marketing infrastructure even for
wheat and rice is poor. Some times
farmers get less than MSP
• Lack of better-directed spending on
fertilizer with more focus on
phosphorus in both rice and wheat
• Time of seeding or transplanting is
single largest manageable constraint.
• CBH enjoyed a big labour cost
advantage which is not the case now
• Water is the single largest POLICY
BASED constraint on productivity
growth of cereals

4. Area and productivity of rice in
Bihar
2008-2009-Area-3.6 mh
Productivity 1.6 t/ha

6. Direct seeded rice (DSR), Machine transplanted unpuddled
rice (MTUPR) and puddled transplanted rice (PTR)
Pooled analysis (2010 &
2011)
Establish Paddy
ment Yield No. of
method t/ha Demos. Std. Deviation
DSR
5.322 563 .8325
MTUPR
6.776 145 1.2101
PTR
5.162 43 .6128
Total
5.594 751 1.0760

7. Varietal Spectrum in EIGP
EUP Bihar West Bengal
MTU-7029 MTU-7029 MTU-7029
Swarna Sub-1 Swarna Sub-1 BPT-5204
BPT-5204 Rajender Mansoori Shatabadi(IET-4786)
Sarju-52 Rajender Bhagwati Ratna
Rajender Mansoori MTU-1008 MTU-1081
MTU-1008 Jalnidhi Radhuni Bhog
Hybrids BPT-5204 Sita Bhog
Hybrids Badshah Bhog
Hybrids

8. Performance of hybrids and varieties in PTR
and DSR in Bihar
PTR DSR

9. Nitrogen Use in Hybrids
9.2
9.1
Paddy yield (t/ha)
9
8.9
8.8
8.7
8.6
8.5
8.4
8.3
8.2
Pri ma Ari ze 6444 Dhani
HYBRIDS

10. Polynomial relationship between sowing
time and grain yield of wheat under ZT and
CT
ZT CT

11. TEN POINT PROGRAM (TPP)
Targets
Interventions Gains Area%
1. Laser Land Levelling Water 05
2. Early Transplanting –MTUPR/ community nursery Yield 05
3. Power tillers based ZT machines Yield 05
4. Conventional Till Direct seeded Rice (CTDSR) Water 02
5. Hybrid rice with less N-use Profits 15
6. Area expansion in Kharif and spring maize Water 02
7. Intercropping with Rabi Maize, summer moong and
ZT soybean Profits 10
8. Yield premium -Early wheat sowings Yield 15
Sustain
9. Zero tillage wheat and lentil-Residues ability 10
10. Yield premium-Long duration wheat varieties Yield 25

12. FIVE POINT PROGRAM- CAPACITY
BUILDING ( FPP-CP)
Interventions
• Women farmers IN
AGRICULTURE
• Augment employability of
skilled workers with service
providers
• Capacity building- TOT, PG
students, Interns
• Training of farmers-training
camps, travel seminars
• Entrepreneurships-Tools and
machinery, seeds and inputs

13. What we need as a group?
.Need farmers credibility, trained in demonstration , adult
education skill
• Requirement: awareness of what farmers need and its opportunities
and conditions
• Knowledge and skills embodied in the workforce including private
sector and farmers ( including champion farmers) to improve
efficiency
• Win the confidence of farmers: operated through shared knowledge,
expertise, skills. and motivation
• Identification of priorities based on the consultations and
workshops- develop consensus between different agencies
• Participatory adaptation- linkage of research and extension
• Practical and updated agronomic skills from seed to seed
• Adult education skills and skills to work with social groups.
• Mutual benefits

14. THANKS