Workshop on SRI (System of Rice Intensification), organized by NABARD, Ranchi to mark the conclusion of the SRI Kharif 2011 program that was conducted trough 56 NGOs, with about 33,000 farmers in the state. Attended by Chief Minister of Jharkhand, Mr. Arjun Munda and Prof. Norman Uphoff, a world renowned expert on SRI from Cornell University

1. SRI State Workshop
NABARD, Ranchi
9 T H JAN , 2012
SRI Kharif 2011— The Story Does Not End
A workshop was organized by
NABARD, Ranchi on 6th of Jan, Special points of
2012. interest:
 SRI is going to her-
It was attended by the Chief Minister
ald the next green
of Jharkhand, Mr. Arjun Munda and
by the well renowned expert on SRI, revolution
Dr. Norman Uphoff. Norman  Prof Norman
Uphoff (born 1941) is an American
Uphoff—World Re-
social scientist serving as a Professor
of Government and International nowned Expert on
SRI Kharif Crops in NEEV Project Area Fields
Agriculture at Cornell University. He SRI comes to
is the Acting Director of the Cornell NABARD workshop
Institute of Public Administration and speaks on SRI
and the former director of the Cor-
nell International Institute for Food,  SRI is a paradigm
Agriculture, and Development. change which brings
the focus back from
The special aspect of SRI is the new chemical inputs to
paradigm shift it talks about, a fact the knowledge of the
which many in the scientific commu- farmer to increase
nity is yet to grasp. The paradigm shift food security for the
is about thinking of crop production modern world.
more from the viewpoint of biology
rather than a more viewpoint of  SRI can be tried for
chemistry which came into vogue other crops and even
after the second World War. Prof. Norman Uphoff - World’s Foremost Expert on vegetables
SRI
In fact the entire world is seeing a
 Prof Norman says
shift from understanding the world that the new para-
from a mechanistic viewpoint to a digm for agriculture
more complex, networked and living would be based on
systems viewpoint of Biology. This is biology rather than
being applied in systems as diverse as chemistry. Plant pro-
management and marketing.
duction is affected
by micro-organisms
At NEEV we are glad that we were in soil more than
able to contribute to this movement minerals
in whatever capacity we could.
SRI State Workshop organized by NABARD, Ranchi