11. Rice farming system Farmers Land ownership status Compost/fertilizers Machine/ tools Investment Irrigation facility Labor availability Technical support Variety/seed Land/ land type Distance of farm Cropping system Land owners
34. Seedling age, fewer seedlings/hill, wider spacing, and AWD irrigation: positive effect on rice yield.
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42. Reliable irrigation Land ownership Labor availability Male/female labor Technical support System of Rice Intensification Water uncertainty Lease land Labor scarcity Delay transplanting Weeder availability Nearness of land Distance of the land Lack of technical support Hire labor Conventional system Partial SRI Double transplanting
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47. Crop duration (from seed to seed) of different rice varieties using SRI methods compared with conventional methods (in days), Morang District, Nepal, 2008 Varieties Conventional duration SRI duration Difference Bansdhan/Kanchhi 145 127 (117-144) 18 (28-11) Mansuli 155 136 (126-146) 19 (29-9) Swarna 155 139 (126-150) 16 (29-5) Sugandha 120 106 (98-112) 14 (22-8) Radha 12 155 138 (125-144) 17 (30-11) Barse 3017 135 118 17 Hardinath 1 120 107 (98-112) 13 (22-8) Barse 2014 135 127 (116-125) 8 (19-10)
From report by Rajendra Uprety, District Agricultural Development Office, Biratnagar, Nepal – for Morang District. Available from SRI home page on the web. Agronomists should be very interested in how more than doubled yield can be achieved in three weeks less time than ‘normally’ expected for this variety. The World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF) evaluation of SRI in Andhra Pradesh state of India, conducted by ANGRAU, the state agricultural university, reported 7-10 day shorter maturation of SRI crops. In Cambodia, this has also been seen.