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LATEST NEWS UPDATES | Farmers give SRI tips to experts by Sanjeev Kumar Verma

Farmers give SRI tips to experts by Sanjeev Kumar Verma

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published Published on Jun 8, 2010   modified Modified on Jun 8, 2010

Seventeen-year-old Jayjeet Kumar of Gaya's Ghantadih village does not know much about complicated chemical reactions or for that matter, about quadratic equations, the reason being that he is only a student of Class VIII.

But when it comes to taking a robust crop from minimum investment, this teenager is miles ahead of many agriculture experts. So much so that the Ghantadih boy donned the role of a farming expert on Tuesday while imparting knowledge about System of Root Intensification (SRI) method of paddy farming to around 50 senior agriculture extension officers of Bihar.

These agriculture department officers, in turn, would disseminate information about the SRI method of farming in their respective areas. Under the SRI method, farmers need to invest less in inputs compared to traditional method of paddy farming and the crop yield too goes up by two to three times.
Jayjeet apart, two semi-literate women of Gaya, Barsi Devi of Shekhwara village and Sunit Devi of Bhusia village, too imparted training to officers.

The troika of these three villagers was selected for this purpose on the basis of success achieved by them after they shifted to the SRI method of farming and their zeal to share the success mantra with others, said Bihar Agricultural Management & Extension Training Institute (BAMETI) director R K Sohane. BAMETI organised the training programme.

While Jayjeet has to his credit having trained over 150 farmers of his native and Darbhanga districts, Barsi and Sunita have been active motivating fellow villagers on the new method of farming.

Sharing the excitement of teaching experts, Jayjeet said: "Training farmers is a different thing, but the experience of imparting knowledge to agriculture expert was really very thrilling as we have been in the habit of learning from them."

Barsi and Sunita echoed Jayjeet, the only difference being that both these women were a bit nervous before the commencement of the training session.

This, however, had little impact on their confidence level as the trainees appeared more than satisfied with what they learnt during the session.

"All the three shared the SRI method farming technique in a very simple way and their practical knowledge about the method made things more simple," said Niraj Prasad, the Purnia district consultant for National Food Security Mission, and added that the farmers handled the question-answer session as well very smartly.


The Times of India, 9 June, 2010, http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/patna/Farmers-give-SRI-tips-to-experts/articleshow/6026288.cms


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