1. System of Intensification
for food and nutrition security 2013
In Jharkhand
By
Society for Promotion of Wastelands Development
14-A, Rouse Avenue lane, Near ITO, New Delhi-110002, www.spwd.org1
SPWD

2. Highlights
• Journey till now
• Presence & Coverage
• Status of 2013 work
• Challenges in rainfed areas
• SRI in other crops
• Mainstreaming
• Issues
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3. Journey Till now
Year No of Farmers (Household) Area (acres)
2005 15 3
2008 1664 647
2009 (Kharif) 4116 1763.6
2009 (Garma) 1123 419
2009 (Wheat) 1122 270
2010 (Kharif) 6500 2900
2011 (Kharif) 33500 12000
2012 (Kharif) 43470 23509
2013 40198 32246
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4. Setting the tone
• Family well being
• SRI to SCI
• SRI+ approach: linking with livelihoods
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5. Partnerwise Average Yield
Organisation/ District Grain Yield in KG for (5M X 5M) Straw Yield in KG for (5M X 5M) Grain Yield(in T/ Ha) Straw Yield(in T/ Ha)
TRCSC( IAMVS West
Singbhum
Manoharpur) 15.61 26.1 6.244 10.44
TRCSC( DREAM- EAST
SINGBHUM, PATAMDA) 15.3 34.2 6.12 13.68
TRCSC( EAST
SINGBHUM,
CHAKULIA) 13.7 21.8 5.48 8.72
TRCSC( SERAIKELA
KHARSAWAN) 17.2 30.3 6.88 12.12
PRAVAT 19.3 22.8 7.72 9.12
MAA, PALAMU 14.03 20.8 5.612 8.32
BMVSS, DEOGHAR 12.5 22.4 5 8.96
BMVSS, DUMKA 12.6 22.1 5.04 8.84
SISU, Ranchi 12.7 16.8 5.08 6.72
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6. INPUT DISTRIBUTED
Sl No. Staff engaged No of staff
engaged
1 Weeder Machine (Nos) 1175
2 Paddy Seed (Diff variety)
(Kgs)
18500
3 Sprayer Machine 180
4 Medicine for seed
treatment (Bevistin kgs)
40
5 Medicine Bio-pesticide and
chemical pesticide
(market).
6 Pump set 30

7. Farmers Practicing SRI in Organic
Method in 2013:
Block
No of
Village
No of
Farmers
Area covered
(In acre)
1 8 510 195.5

8. Variety wise Paddy Production (in Quintal) per
Acre
11
13
15
16
18
6
8
9
10
11
0
2
4
6
8
10
12
14
16
18
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Minikit Khandagiri Lalat IR-36 Swarna
SRI
Traditional

9. Photographs
Nursery Bed Transplantation of seedling from Nursery Bed
Transplantation in main field by maintaining lining Weeding by using Cono weeder machine

10. Challenges of SRI in rainfed conditions
• Climate … rainfall abberations
• In absence of assured irrigation it needs a lot of
management actions
– Staggerred nursery
– Availability of Seed of varying duration
– Direct seeding
– Labour demand peaks up
• While in case of Jharkhand the historical rainfall data
shows that it only faces agricultural drought
• Irrigation or on farm water bodies could be a solution
• Government initiates the promotion on a small scale-
56 units
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11. On farm water bodies
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13. SCI in other rainfed crops
• SCI in rainfed crops
• Mustard,fingermillet, sugarcane
• In very small numbers
• In case of fingermillets- challenge is also to bring
back into practice, seed availability
• Finger millet varietal selection Initiated through
an FFS,
• ANOTHER MAJOR CHALLENGE In RAINFED
CONDITION
• SOIL HEALTH- acidic soils, red soils
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14. Livestock species 1997 2003 % increase/decrease
Crossbred cattle 232 1420 512
Indigenous cattle 24,366 16,968 –30
Total cattle 24,598 18,388 –25
Buffalo 5897 7087 21
Total bovine 30,477 25,475 –16
Sheep 1956 1062 –46
Goat 20,229 14,521 –28
Pig 924 1780 93
Chicken 16,602 26,285 58
Duck etc. 3288 2055 –38
Others 156 152 –3
Total livestock 53,742 42,990 –20

15. Facilitating towards living soils
• Facilitating conditions for soil micro organisms
– Farm water bodies ( in order to improve moisture
availability both in situ as well as to provide
protective irrigation)
– Using jivamrit- as inoculants
– Incorporation of biomass as a component of their
farming system
– Increasing organic matter, through bio-composting

16. SRI+arhar on bunds+
Lac+Lentil+Mustard

17. Livelihood based SRI+Strategies
adopted in 2013
• Paddy+ On farm water body+ fish+ arhar on
bunds
• Relay cropping
• Incorporating some critical steps as part of the
agronomic practice in other crops as well
– Seed treatment
– Line sowing
• Puffed rice making machine
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18. Mainstreaming SRI
• Government of Jharkhand’s SRI promotion
incentive programme was well accepted by
farmers and NGOs who were the part of
earlier SRI promotion programme.
• GoJ has initiated a programme to extend
SRI to 20% of its area under paddy
• NFSM and ATMA programmes to promote SRI
was successfully mobilised
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19. Opportunity
• Government
– Incentive- Farmer / NGO/ Technical (1000 / 200/ 50) for 1 ha.
– 20 % ( 320,000 ha.) paddy area coverage by government
– Incentive from government programme
• MKSP- Mahila Kisan Sasaktikaran Pariyojanā (NRLM)-future
prospect
• Local fund generation
– Very small ( mostly as contribution from farmers)

20. Major limitations
• Not a well designed programme for such a huge scale
– Incorporated into the BGREI( very small scale)
– Still seed replacement with Hybrids is the focus
– Incentive designed but in sufficient
– Back up with infrastructure(implements) and manpower
lacking
– Training and capacity building delinked with the incentive
scheme
– Very low support/ no support for manpower
– Untimely release at times no release of money ( this time
in east singhbum, problem of financial allocation has led to
no release of funds as yet)
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Problems faced
• Late rain cause delayed transplantation.
• Seed variety of Govt. supplied subsidized scheme was not good
• Heavy rain after transplantation resulted in less tillering and
attack of disease and pest.
• Attack of massive pest attack after pannicle formation.
• Convergence programme of Govt. through ATMA was also
effected due to non availability of financial allocation.

24. Limitations in government linkages…..
• NFSM (DEMO - 2013-14)
• TOTAL NO. OF FARMERS
• 214
• Money Distributed to the farmers of Ranchi
District
• 642000.00
• Money Recieved by Implementing organisation
from Ranchi District
• 0.00
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25. Efforts for scaling up
(for consolidation and up-scaling)
• Proposal approved under NRLM-MKSP for
locations of the state covering SCI (SRI &SWI)
as major livelihood security component
– Major limitation is the limited staff support
• Some partners have been linked to NABARD
under their seed programme
• The government linkages will continue, but
within the present limitations it will be …….
• Proposal submitted to SDTT
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