EGM on Promoting Empowerment of People in Advancing Poverty Eradication, Social Integration and Decent Work for All Empowerment of Farmers through ICT: The case study of SRI Norman Uphoff Cornell University, USA UN-ECOSOC, New York, Sept. 10-12, 2012
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EGM on Promoting Empowerment of People in Advancing Poverty Eradication, Social Integration and Decent Work for All
Empowerment of Farmers through ICT:
The case study of SRI
Norman Uphoff Cornell University, USA
UN-ECOSOC, New York, Sept. 10-12, 2012
Case Study: System of Rice Intensification An agroecological innovation from Madagascar more yield with less inputs (less seeds, water, fertilizer, even labor) too good to be true?
SRI developed in 1980s; Association Tefy Saina (1990), collaboration with CIIFAD (from 1994);
CIIFAD was not very persuaded until 1997First demonstrations outside Madagascar were in China, Indonesia (1999-2000); now the merits of SRI have been shown in 51 countries
Ideas and methods
are being extended to other crops: wheat, sugarcane, finger millet, teff, mustard, turmeric, etc. farmer innovation
NEPAL:Single riceplant grownwith SRI methods, Morang district
CUBA: farmer with two plants of same variety (VN 2084) and
same age (52 DAP)
IRAQ: Comparison trials at Al-Mishkhab Rice Research Station, Najaf; SRI plots are those on the left
INDONESIA
‘Rice Aplenty in Aceh’
CARITAS NEWSSpring 2009
SRI methods were introduced in Aceh in 2005, after the area had been devastated by a tsunamiNew methods raised local rice yields from 2 t/ha average to 8.5 t/ha: “Using less rice seed, less water and [more] organic compost, farmers in Aceh have quadrupled their crop production.”
AFGHANISTAN: SRI field in Baghlan Province, >1600m,supported by Aga Khan Foundation program, now EU funding
2008:
6 farmers got SRI yields of 10.1 t/ha
vs. 5.4 t/ha regular
2009:
42 farmers got SRI yields of 9.3 t/ha
vs. 5.6 t/ha regular-2nd
year SRI farmers got 13.3 t/ha
vs. 5.6 t/ha
-1st
year SRI farmers got 8.7 t/ha
vs. 5.5 t/ha
2011:
106 farmers got SRI yields of 10.1 t/ha
vs. 5.04 t/ha regular
All with reduced water applications
MALI
–
an SRI nursery in the Timbuktu region –
8-day seedlings are ready for transplanting
SRI transplanting in Timbuktu, Mali
Farmer in Timbuktu region, working with the NGO Africare, showing difference between regular and
SRI rice plants
2007/08:
1 farmer - SRI yield of 8.98
t/ha
2008/09:
60 farmers -9.01
vs. 5.49 t/ha
2009/10:
130 farmers – 7.71
vs. 4.48 t/ha
with 32% less water
Other Benefits from Changes in Practices1.
Water saving
–
major concern in many places, also
now have ‘rainfed’
version with similar results2.
Greater resistance to biotic and abiotic stresses
–
less damage from pests and diseases, drought, typhoons, flooding, cold spells [discuss tomorrow]
3.
Shorter crop cycle
–
same varieties are harvested by 1-3 weeks sooner, save water, less crop risk
4.
High milling output
–
by about 15%, due to fewer unfilled grains (less chaff) and fewer broken grains
5.
Reductions in labor requirements
–
widely reported incentive for changing practices in India and China; also, mechanization
is being introduced many places
6.
Reductions in costs of production
–
greater farmer income and profitability, also health benefitsSRI LANKA:
Rice fields 3 weeks after irrigation stopped;
conventionally-grown field on left, and SRI field on right
VIETNAM:Dông Trù
village,
Hanoi province, after typhoon
Conventional field and plant on right;SRI field and plant
on left
Indonesia: Fields affected by both brown planthopper (BPH) and by storm damage (typhoon): rice on left is grown with standard practice; organic SRI
on right
Modern improved variety
(Ciherang) –
no yield
Traditional aromatic variety
(Sintanur)- 8 t/ha
Before 1999:
Madagascar1999:
China, Indonesia2000-01:
Bangladesh, Cuba, Laos, Cambodia, Gambia, India, Nepal, Myanmar, Philippines, Sierra Leone, Sri Lanka, Thailand 2002-03:
Benin, Guinea, Moz., Peru2004-05:
Senegal, Pakistan, Vietnam2006:
Burkina Faso, Bhutan, Iran, Iraq, Zambia
2007:
Afghanistan, Brazil, Mali 2008:
Rwanda, Costa Rica, Ecuador, Egypt, Ghana, Japan 2009: Malaysia, Timor Leste2010:
2012: SRI benefits have now been seen in 51 countries of Asia, Africa, and Latin America
New farming method boosts food output for India's rural poor
In Ghantadih village in Gaya district, more than half of the 42 farming households have switched to SWI from traditional practices.
Manna Devi, mother of three, was the first woman to use the technique in Bihar state. She says she decided to take a gamble despite jibes from neighbouring farmers who mocked her cultivation methods.
"We were living a hand-to-mouth existence before and we just couldn't manage to eat, let alone put our children through school," she says. "We were only producing about 30 kg of wheat which lasted us four months and we had to take loans, and my husband had also taken a second job as a rickshaw puller in order to make ends meet."
Devi says she now produces about 80 kg of wheat - enough to feed her family for a year – and hopes to start selling extra crop.
Alert Net: Thomson-Reuters Foundation, March 30, 2010
Finger Millet (ragi): Improved variety with SFMI methods on the left; in middle
usual management of improved variety;traditional variety/usual methods on right
ICRISAT-WWF Sugarcane Initiative:
at least 20% more cane yield, with:
•30% reduction
in water, and •25% reduction
in
chemical inputs
“The inspiration for puttingthis package together isfrom the successfulapproach of SRI –
System
of Rice Intensification.”
Use of ICT has been essential for this spread: starting with email
(1997), then
website
(2002) and list-serves
(2007-09) (SICA-America Latina, 2008)
http:sri.ciifad.cornell.edu
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