Monday, February 22, 2010

Some Small Success Stories – January –February-2010

Spreading SRI technique in Rice Production:

        For the last 2 years, one of our main campaigns was to introduce the SRI techniques (The System of Rice Intensification (SRI) is a method of increasing the yield of rice produced in farming. It was developed in 1983 by the French Jesuit Father Henri de Laulanie in Madagascar.) This year we are very successful in spreading this in Balti – Nityanandakati and Bithari-Hakimpur GPs under the Swarupnagar Block of N24 Pgs. So far 14 farmers had practiced this in 12 Bighas of land. Mr. Sankar Das, Sub-Divisional Agriculture Development Officer, Mr. Amal Mondal, Block Agriculture Development Officer & Local KPs( agriculture- assistant) had visited our farmers plots and had request our staff, Tarun to campaign for it in the entire block … ...
                                                                  
Fertilizer merchant joined with us…..

        We have an agriculture training school in Nabatkati of Balti – Nityanandakati GP under the Swarupnagar Block of N24 Pgs. There are a number of farmers who produce the manures and pest controllers in their homes and are independent in farming. Local fertilizer merchants were not happy with us. But six month ago one of the fertilizer merchants, Prakash came to our school and got some idea on bio compost making. He made one chamber beside his shop in Nabatkati Bazar and was very successful in producing pit-compost from there. He collected the unsold vegetable waste and gathered these in his chamber. Now he has joined with us… and planning to produce vermicompost on commercial basis. He has started selling vermicompost and PSB, Neem oil from his shop….....

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