Fwd: SRI in Hindu Survey of Agriculture 2009
Nemani Chandrasekhar
From: Agarwal, Manisha (ICRISAT-IN) <m.ag...@cgiar.org>
Date: Tue, Oct 6, 2009 at 2:38 PM
Subject: RE: SRI in Hindu Survey of Agriculture 2009
To: srii...@googlegroups.com
Cc: chandrase...@gmail.com, nt...@cornell.edu, guj...@gmail.com
Greetings to All!
With pleasure I share the news that the 2009 edition of the Hindu Survey of Agriculture is being released, and most importantly that it features on its cover page, exclusively, a full length picture of an SRI Farmer doing intercultivation operations in his SRI fields.
Explaining the cover picture on page 3, it says:
System of Rice Intensification (SRI) not only boot's production by 50-100 per cent, and often much more, but also induces greater resistance to pests and diseases and reduce vulnerability to drought, lodging, storm damage, etc.
The first article by M.S. Swaminathan, titled: Five-pronged strategy for boosting crop yield and food security, he explains: “Most of the rainfall during the South West Monsoon period occurs within 100 hours. Therefore rain water harvesting and storage both in the aquifer and in tanks and reservoirs becomes very important. Simultaneously we should promote increased water use efficiency. In 2007, the Ministry of water Resources of the government of India initiated a Farmer Participatory Action Research Programme in over 2000 villages all over the country to assess the impact of water saving technologies, like the System of Rice Intensification (SRI) in rice. I have been chairing the National Committee providing oversight to this programme. The results of the last 2 years have shown that yield and income can be increased by 50 to 100 percent in most crops by using water saving technologies.”
The second article is by Dr. Norman Uphoff and Dr. Abha Mishra is titled: Climate–proofing: Opportunities with the System of Rice Intensification
The third article once again talks on the practical options the Indian policy makers should adopt while designing the adaptive mechanisms most central for farmers to adapt to climate change. The article by Dr. Biksham Gujja is tiled: It is time the Indian rich pay for the cost and allocate resources to farmer
The article further explains that “Certain crops such as rice and sugarcane, which require large quantity of water, need to be cultivated differently. It is possible to produce rice and sugarcane with lot less water and other inputs by adapting it to System of Rice Intensification kind of farm based methods. The method has been proved time again but they require lot more policy and institutional support in order to scale to national level so that dependency on water can be reduced without compromising on the production.”
We must all appreciate and thank Mr. M.J. Prabhu, the Senior Agriculture Correspondent of Hindu for his efforts in promoting SRI. His email id: m...@thehindu.co.in
For the scanned copies of the above three articles, kindly write to me at m.ag...@cgiar.org
Kind regards
Manisha
ICRISAT-WWF Project
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