1. PROMOTING SYSTEM OF RICE
INTENSIFICATION (SRI) TECHNOLOGY WITH
SMALL AND MARGINAL FARMERS
Supported by SDTT

2. Content
 Context
 The Project
 Implementation – Approach and Process
 Achievement
 Learning
 Plan

3. Livelihood zone Ethnic group Characteristics
Northern Hills
28.47 lakh Ha.
(21%)
Kanwar, Oraon, Nagesia, Korwa,
Saunta,Saur, Sawar, Baiga, Agaria, Kol,
Dhanwar,Biyar, Binjhwar, Manjhwar, Bharia,
Bhaina,Majhi, Khairwar, Kharia and Gond
• Dependency on forest
• Paddy is the only crop
• Ample source of water from rivers
and streams
• Coal belt of Chhattisgarh
Central
Region - C.G.
Plains
68.49 lakh
Ha(50%)
Gond, Baiga, Kamar, Oraon, Kol,
Binjhwar,Dhanwar, Kanwar, Halba, Pardhi,
Bahelia,Bhunjia, Agariya, Kondh, Bhaina,
Majhi, Kanwar, Manjhwar, Sonr, Saur
Gadaba, Sawar, Saunta
• Most fertile and productive region
• Developed infrastructure facilities
• Crop diversification by farmers
• Durg and Bhialai are the major
industrial pockets
Southern
Region - Bastar
Plateau 39.06 lakh
Ha. (29%)
Halba, Gadaba, Pardhi, Kamar, Bhattra,
Dhurwa, Muria, Maria, Bison horn,
Maria,Dandami Maria Gond, Raj
Gond,Dorla, Hill Maria, Pardhan, Mudia
• Heavily forested
• High run-off
• Forest major source of livelihood
• Poor infrastructure
• Rich Iron ore deposit
• Severely affected by extremists
Livelihood Zone

4. Chhattisgarh context
 Families belong to poor or very poor categories with low
levels of resources, skill, understanding of markets,
investment capability or risk taking ability
 Primarily agriculture based economy provides livelihood to 80
percent of the rural population (56% marginal farmers)
 Infrastructure is under developed; markets are far away, where
not many choices exist
 Vulnerable farming systems, monsoon dependent, low
yielding (1.59 MT/Ha for paddy)and mono cropped, only 6%
of net sown area under assured irrigation
 63.00 lakh hectares (44% of state) under forest cover with
Protected forest cover of 43.13%.
 13 lakh families (28%) engaged in MFP collection

5. Opportunities
 Enhancing the productivity of land, water and agriculture
are the obvious avenues to improve livelihoods and reduce
poverty.
Need for intervention in Kharif Paddy
 low yields in the range of 1-2 tons per hectare
 small and marginal farmers could manage food grain sufficiency
of 3-6 months from own cultivation
 farmers in this region are unable to transplant timely due to
unpredictable monsoon
 Challenge was at least to double the productivity- increased to
5MT/ha leading to food-grain sufficiency for 9-12 months

6. The Project
Aims to:
 Enhance paddy productivity from the current 2-3 tonnes per
hectare by 75-100% which will ensure year-round food
sufficiency for the participant families
 Support 12 NGOs to introduce the SRI technique to 13500
families in 11 districts (13500 families in 2nd year)
 Duration of the Project – 3 Years
 Budget : 96.35 Lakh INR (for 3rd year)

7. Coverage (2012-13)
 12 districts
 408 villages
 13 NGOs
 16660 families (In
Kharif SRI)
 2514families in the
rabi under SRI-
paddy, wheat,
mustard & millets

8. Kharif SRI (2012-13)
 34% increase in number of villages
 7549 Farmers (new) adopted the SRI technology
 8975 Farmers (old) are the 2nd time adopter of the
SRI technology
 89.13% Families are adopting the technology for
the 2nd time
 56.10% families adopted organic process.
 86.31% families are small & marginal.
 20% increase in per village saturation.
 10% increase in per family coverage.

9. Process followed
Training of NGO
representatives
Campaigning/Orientati
on programme at
village level
Training of CSPs
Technical training of
villagers on nursery
and natural pesticides
(Handi khad and
Jeevamruta) and
transplantation
Demonstration of
using marker, weeder,
and on-field support
to farmers
Exposure visit to the
transplanted fields
and standing crops
Regular reviewing
and monitoring
support at
Chhattishgarh SRI
Manch
Consolidation of
experiences-SRI
adhivesan
Contextual to location : socio-economic status of the community, agricultural skill , existing
institutions and PRADAN’s perspective.

10. Approach for Extension
• Demonstration
• Guided exposures with AV aids
• Sensitizing women SHG members
• Enable resource persons with technology and
communication skills
• Hands on training and support to SHG families
• Emphasis to minimize dropouts & enhance area saturation
• Development of POP and kits for easy delivery of
technology and inputs
• Collaboration with the Department of Agriculture
• Availability of weeders

11. SRI steps followed by farmers
 Seed rate 5 kg/ha
 Seed sorting (brine) and treatment (Carbendazim)
 Transplantation of young seedling(8-14 days old), two leaf
stage.
 Single seedling transplantation with soil, no damage to root
system
 Square transplantation, 16 -25 seedling sq meter
 Thin film (<1inch) water maintained in the field
 Weeding at least twice using rotary weeders (Ambica
weeder) in 89.19 % of fields
 Increased use of compost and organic farming materials

12. Training details till January’13
Training & Exposure Plan
(Year II)
Achiev.
(Year II)
Plan
(Year III)
Achiev.
(Year III)
Awareness Generation (No. of
event)
117 207 167 207
Exposure to local demonstration
(No. of person)
1400 3247 2000 3897
Training & on-field support to
farmers ( No. of farmers)
5100 10545 8100 14587
Training of village resource person (
No. of person)
170 134 270 215
Organise SRI-Adhivesan(No of
event)
21 27 34 15

13. Achievement
 16660 families
 3646 Ha (0.21 Ha per
farmer)
 Average yield 6.54 Mt/ha
(Analysis of 3712
Sample),Millets-3.42MT/ha
 Highest yield is 11.20
Mt/ha in paddy & 4.25
MT/ha in millets
 2514 families
 503 ha of land (0.20
Ha per family)
Kharif (2012) Rabi(2012-13)

14. Outreach – NGO-wise
NGOs Dist Covered Family
covered(No)
Area
Covered(Ha)
Area per
family Ha)
AASHA SRG,SRJ 1650 474 0.28
APSSS SRG,SRJ.BRJ 1600 404 0.25
SSGVS SRG,RIG,JSH 1507 372 0.25
CGVSS SRG 1,400 339 0.24
GVK JSH 1,513 250 0.17
CARMADAKSH BSP 1,320 363 0.20
NSSS BSP,KRB 697 117 0.16
ASORD RIP, KNK 1304 200 0.16
SSSS KNG,BST 1012 276 0.27
BSM KNK,BST,KNG 1194 279 0.23
DHS BST 239 35 0.15
KARMA SRG 1401 255 0.18
PRADAN RIG,BST,DHT,KNK 1,823 282 0.15
TOTAL 16,660 3,646 0.21

15. District wise
coverage
6886
283 152
1688
1262
1649
468
1004
371
1019 1073 805
0
1000
2000
3000
4000
5000
6000
7000
8000
Covered Family
1599.2
67.6 36
344.4 288
368.4
53.6
160
88
220 228.8 192
0
200
400
600
800
1000
1200
1400
1600
1800
Area covered(Ha)
0.23 0.24 0.24
0.2
0.23 0.22
0.11
0.16
0.24
0.22 0.21
0.24
0
0.05
0.1
0.15
0.2
0.25
0.3
Per family coverage(Ha)

16. Analysis of Productivity
Prod.
(MT/ha)
No. of
Families
Percen
tage
10-12 54 1.5
8-10 666 17.9
6-8 1682 45.3
4-6 1273 34.3
2-4 37 1.0
0-2 0 0.0
Total 3712 100
10 -12
2%
8-10
18%
6-8
45%
4-6
34%
2-4
1%
0-2
0%
Productivity Range - MT/ha
Sample size 3712 families
99% families achieve the productivity
more than 4 MT/ha

17. 79.39
10.01
15.77
92.89
14
5.28
0.59
91.43
27.33
22.28
219.55
26.23
16.36
0.62
Avg. plant height
(cm)
Avg. no of
productive tiller/hill
(no)
Avg. length of a
panicle (cm)
Avg. no of filled
grains in a panicle
(no)
Avg. test weight
(gm)
Avg. weight in crop
cutting in (5m*5m)
grid (kg)
Harvest Index
Comparision on yield attributes 2012-13
Traditional Process SRI Process

18. What does it mean for a rural family
Av.
Production
(MT/ha)-
SRI- 6.54;
Traditional-
2.1
Members/family(No)
Average land holding(Ha)
Food sufficiency(Months)
5
0.21
10
5
0.21
3
Impact on food sufficiency
SRI practice Traditional practice
Average
Rice
Consumptio
n – 3 Kg
/day

19. Village Family Area(Ha)
232
5455
932
303
11570
2328
408
16660
3646
Coverage
2010-11 2011-12 2012-13
Family / village Dropout(%)
19
3938
22
41
11
Coverage Trend
2010-11 2011-12 2012-13
11
13
13
Partner NGOs
2010-11 2011-12
2012-13
5.84
6.46
6.54
2010-11 2011-12 2012-13
Productivity(MT/
ha)
0.17
0.20
0.22
2010-11 2011-12 2012-13
Area/Family(Ha)
The Journey

20. Lessons Learnt
 Adoption of technology in
area saturation mode
maximum with small &
marginal families
 Pool of CSPs and
Coordinators
 Use of farm implements
and organic products
 Linkages and recognition
from Govt.
 Chattisgarh SRI munch
 Quality of weeder & timely
availability
 Ensuring timely
transplantation
 Maintaining timeline
 Influence the farmers
towards organic farming.
 Reducing the rainfall risk
What went well Challenges faced

21. Green Manure crop in SRI-paddy field
before sowing

22. Seed Treatment

23. Seed Bed

24. Drainage channel preparation

25. Field preparation by Marker

26. Transplantation

27. Transplanted field

28. Weeding operation

29. Paddy plant having 82 tillers in
Surguja

30. Standing crop

31. Mature crop

32. Crop cutting & data collection

33. Exposure program

34. SRI in other crops
SRI Millets SRI Brinjal

35. Kisan mela and District Workshop
Kisan Mela
District Workshop

36. Documentation

37. Initiation of
comprehensive
farm based
livelihood
SRI with other
crops
Chhattisgarh
SRI Manch
13 Partners
SRI Paddy
Sharing of
learning, innovation, issues and
challenges
Policy advocacy, Convergence
Cross visit, mutual learning
Capacity building of partner on
accounts and finance
NRM based livelihood planning at
family level- training to all partner
Linkage with MGNREGA- 4
district, 7 NGOs, 60 lakh sanctioned
and proposal of another 1 crore in
pipeline.
Livelihood training to all partner
NGO
Capacity building of partner in
administration and governance
Belief,trustandconfidence
Partnership

38. MGNREGA in progress

39. Training of NGO partners

40. Next action plan(1st February 2013 to 30th June 2013)
 Help the partners in data entry through MIS and analyse the data
 Facilitate the government officials to certify the best yield of farmers at block and district
level.
 Training of partners on rabi & summer crops and ensuring on field support.
 Organise exposures, kisan days & workshops in Gram Panchayat, Block, District and State
level with the involvement of different government officials.
 Facilitate more farmers in organic based farming approach through proper handholding.
Create awareness of farmers in land husbandry along with crop husbandry.
 Facilitate the partners to go for intensive land and water based activities through
MGNREGA to mitigate the risk of water scarcity on several crops in year round basis.
 Prepare plan for next five year in family based agriculture intervention in large scale
 Documentation on the learning of the project and partnership approach.
 Increase peer learning between all partners by cross visit, exposure etc to know different
parts of development in society.
 Facilitate partners to go different types of HR or livelihood related training
 Help partners to build more strong system in accounts, administration and MIS

41. THANKS