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Important Considerations and Package of Practices 26
Benefits of SRI and Future Plans for Increasing Rice Production 27
Conclusion 28
CHAPTER 5
System of Rice Intensification: Enabling a Joyful Interaction with Nature, Sabarmatee, Sambhav 37
Paddy in Summer and our Land 37
Second Trial: from July to November 2007 38
Sambhav as a Resource Centre on SRI 40
Differences between Earlier and Present Practice - Some Notions Demystified 41
Challenges Remain 41
What Next? 41
CHAPTER 6
Expanding Pro-poor Livelihoods through SRI: PRADAN’s Experiences in Orissa, Surijit Behera 43
Agricultural Practices in the Region 43
Introduction of SRI in Orissa 43
Process and Practices 44
Promoting SRI through Self Help Groups 44
SRI as an Opportunity to Double Productivity 45
CHAPTER 7
Nurturing Participatory Development of SRI: Experiences of SVA 47
SVA and SRI 47
The Spread of SRI through Careful Experimentation 47
Oriya Manual on SRI 48
Some Constraints in SRI Adoption 49
Future Prospects 49
Appendix 7.1: SRI Method (Kharif) 2007 – Farmers’ Details 50
CHAPTER 8
Meeting Food Security of Tribal and Marginal Farmers through SRI:
The Experiences of Pragati, Koraput, Prabhakar Adhikari 51
Introduction 51
Agriculture in Koraput 51
Our Experience of SRI 52
Our Observations and Learning 53
Appendix 8.1: SRI Farmer Database in Koraput by Pragati 55
Appendix 8.2: SRI Adoption in Rabi 2006-2007 56
CHAPTER 9
Innovating into SRI, Pravash Chandra Satpathy 57
Innovations in Ratoon Cultivation 57
System of Mustard Intensification (SMI) 58
SRI a Natural Progression of Experimentation 59
Results 59
Constraints 59
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