Presenter: Rajendra Uprety Audience: FMIST Seminar Subject Country: Nepal

1. The System of Rice Intensification (SRI): A good alternative for increasing irrigated rice cultivation and its productivity in Nepal Rajendra Uprety Agriculture Extension Officer District Agriculture Development Office Morang, Nepal

7. What is SRI method in Nepal? Single rice plant, 35 days after transplanting by SRI method (Chaite 2 variety)

8. Young seedlings of 3 leaf stage. (8-12 days old)

9. Single seedling transplanting (without damaging the root of the seedling)

10. Single seedling transplanting in wider spacing 20x20 cm 25x25 cm 30x30 cm

11. Keep soil moist during vegetative stage, no water stagnation but sometime wetting and drying of the soil for better performance.

12. Regular and timely weeding for first 35 days. It increases more tillers and more production. Manual weeding (21 days after transplanting)

13. Weeding by rotary weeder, it decrease labor cost for SRI

14. And use of more organic matter/FYM instead of chemical fertilizers

17. Difficulties with SRI

18. Weed management Farmers' reactions: It required more labor. More money. Sometimes weed problems lead to fail the crops.

19. Mechanical Weeding by rotary weeder will be a good solution to reduce weeding cost. SRI field after first weeding by rotary weeder

20. Farmers, made marker and weeder to facilitate SRI method

21. Water management according to soil type. Wetting and drying up to cracking stage with loose and organic soil.

22. Healthy and big root system Healthy and big shoots and more production

23. What is necessary for SRI movement ? Collaboration of GOs/NGOs/CBOs/WUAs to testing, packaging and dissemination of SRI method in their working areas. In such collaboration we can generate a movement for the prosperity of this country. Which is suffering from food deficiency and poverty . Let's Join Together for SRI.

24. Thank you

25. Participants in SRI field training

26. SRI Trainer facilitate about seedling preparation for transplanting

27. Farmers participation in SRI training

28. Visitors from MOAC, DOA, NARC and DOLS

29. Visitors from the World Bank and Poverty Alleviation Fund/Nepal

30. Journalist in the SRI fields Himal Khabarpatrika NEPALI TIMES Channel Nepal BBC World Service