Experiences of Farmers in India Experiences of Farmers in ... - AgSri

Farmers’ Experiences
Lessons learnt
By applying SRI, farmers can save a lot of water, electricity as well as other
natural resource while increasing production of rice.
Comparative study
Particulars Conventional method SRI method
Date of nursery sown 30/5/2008 30/5/2008
Date of transplantation 3/7/2008 11/6/2008
Date of harvest 25/10/2008 13/10/2008
Weed control 1200 ml Butachlor 3 times weeding with
Conoweeder
FYM (t/acre) Nil 4
Fertilizer (Urea in kg per acre) 110 25
No. of productive tillers/m 2 240 (mean of 10
observations)
No. of grains/panicle 130 225
Wt of grain per panicle (gm) 3.65 7.35
Length of panicle (cm) 28.70 32.12
Chaffy grain (%) 26 21
No of plant / m 2 (mean of 10 14 16
samples)
Grain yield (t/acre) 1.86 2.52
Crop duration (days) 139 136
376 (mean of 10
observations)
Suggestions
To make credit facility available to farmers.
To make a motorized Conoweeder available.
To standardize SRI practices according to Punjab situation.
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