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Gujarat
Girish Mansirav Chaudhary
Sarvar
Gujarat
Contact: Mr. Sachin Patwardhan, BAIF
Development Research Foundation,
Dhruva-BAIF, Lachhakadi, Gujarat.
Ph: 9890869647
Age: 28 years
Education: M. A.
Family size: 5
Occupation(s): Agriculture, Grocery shop
No. of years in farming: 10
Paddy cultivation
Girish possesses 7 acres of land, in which he cultivates paddy in 1 acre. In this rain
fed land, he used hybrid and improved seeds following conventional method. He
gets a yield of 15 q/acre.
SRI Adoption
He came to know about SRI from DHRUVA, an associate organization of BAIF
Development Research Foundation, which provided him the training and field level
guidance on SRI. It has been practiced by him for one season i.e. monsoon season
of 2007. He used traditional implements like wooden plough for ploughing and
puddling of the fields and weeding was done with the hands. The SRI practices
followed by him are,
Raised bed nurseries
Early transplanting with 15 days old seedlings
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25 X 25 cm spacing
Weeding twice, first 20 days after transplanting and second 40 days after
transplanting
Application of Vermicompost at the rate 2 t/acre.
He used Suruchi Hybrid. Some pests like Stem borers, Plant hoppers and diseases
like Leaf blight were observed, but it was only an occurrence and not major attack.
So, no plant protection chemicals were applied. There were natural occurrences of
predators like Blister beetles and Lady bird beetles, which consume small sucking
insects like hoppers and aphids.
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