First issue of SSI Newsletter 'Sugarcane matters'

[Padma reddy]

Dear Sir/Madam

 

Greetings from ICRISAT-WWF Project!

 

After our successful field demos and policy advocacy work as part of upscaling SRI in India, we have now

over the past one year started the Sustainable Sugarcane Initiative (SSI), a system of better management practices

in sugarcane that involves use of less water, less seed and less fertilizers through organic method of cultivation to achieve more yields and profits to farmers and millers alike. It is an alternative to the conventional seed, water and space intensive sugarcane cultivation. A SSI Training Manual was released in May 2009.

 

Now we have initiated the SSI newsletter titled “SUGARCANE MATTERS” which sums up our initial experiences in the farmers’ fields of Tamil Nadu, Punjab, Orissa, Karnataka, Andhra Pradesh and industrial trial plots in Uttar Pradesh. Through this newsletter, we hope to build an useful platform for others to write, discuss and exchange views regarding innovative and better management practices for improving sugarcane production  in India and any other important issues pertaining to the sugar sector  We do  hope that the platform we have created in the form of this newsletter would  prove useful for you to share and contribute your experiences, events, studies, field trials and any other issues  on sugarcane.

 

Find attached the SSI newsletter “Sugarcane Matters” , the first issue for your information and feedback.

 

We look forward to receiving your critical feed back and inputs to improve and take it further.

 

With regards,

Padma

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R.Padma Reddy

Administrative Associate

WWF-ICRISAT-Project

ICRISAT

Patancheru - 502 324

Tel: +91 40 3071 3762

Fax: +91 40 3071 3074 / 75

Email: p.r...@cgiar.org

[Padma reddy]

[Nemani Chandrasekhar]

Dear Ms. Padma,

 

Wonderful innovative! Keep it up!

 

Please accept our hearty congratulations to you and your team.

 

I love that newsletter design (SRI and SSI) published from WWF - ICRISAT, when I saw it, it caught my attention. Great design can really make a difference. Now that is really wonderful and beautiful photographs. This is a newsletter especially for us interested in SSI as well as SRI, but we hope it is useful to our farmers.

 

Can we upload this newsletter on our SRI Website? If yes, also give me a soft copy in Hindi, Telugu, Tamil versions.

 

I will appreciate it very much if you could give me some hard copies of the above newsletter.

 

Thank once again for sharing this newsletter.

 

With warm regards,

 

Nemani...

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Chandrasekhar, Nemani
Program Associate
Watershed Support Services and Activities Network (WASSAN)
H.No. 12-13-450, Street No.1, Tarnaka
Secunderabad - 500 017, Andhra Pradesh, India
Website: www.wassan.org, www.rainfedfarming.org