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    The System of Rice Intensification (SRI) is gaining popularity among farmers in Tamil Nadu, India. According to the Secretary of the Public Works Department, almost 50% of the total area under paddy cultivation will adopt SRI within the next couple of years. Currently 3,000 hectares have adopted SRI, and the state government aims to bring 11 lakh hectares, or 50% of total paddy area, under SRI within the next 2-3 years. The government is providing subsidies between Rs. 2,000-10,000 per hectare to encourage farmers to adopt the new cultivation method. Adopting SRI provides benefits to farmers through reduced production costs.

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    The System of Rice Intensification (SRI) is gaining popularity among farmers in Tamil Nadu, India. According to the Secretary of the Public Works Department, almost 50% of the total area under paddy cultivation will adopt SRI within the next couple of years. Currently 3,000 hectares have adopted SRI, and the state government aims to bring 11 lakh hectares, or 50% of total paddy area, under SRI within the next 2-3 years. The government is providing subsidies between Rs. 2,000-10,000 per hectare to encourage farmers to adopt the new cultivation method. Adopting SRI provides benefits to farmers through reduced production costs.

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    THE HINDU

    Date: 24/01/2008 URL: http://www.thehindu.com/2008/01/24/stories/2008012451050300.htm

    Tamil Nadu

    New rice cultivation system gaining popularity


    Special Correspondent

    VILLUPURAM: The System of Rice Intensification (SRI) is gaining popularity among the
    farmers in the State and in the next of couple of years almost 50 per cent of the total area under
    paddy will adopt this method, according to S. Audiseshiah, Secretary, Public Works Department.

    Mr. Audiseshiah, accompanied by Vibu Nayar, Project Director, I AM WARM (Integrated


    Agriculture Modernisation and Water Bodies Restoration and Management) project; C.
    Ramasamy, Vice-Chancellor, Tamil Nadu Agricultural University; and District Collector
    Brajendra Navnit inspected the demonstration plot raising paddy under SRI technology at
    Vikkiravandi near here on Wednesday.

    Mr. Audiseshiah told reporters that the SRI technology was being propagated by the State
    government and the TNAU. So far 3,000 hectare (ha) had come under the project, and since it
    was being promoted under the mission mode, it would soon bring about 11 lakh ha (of the total
    area of 20.5 lakh ha under paddy) under SRI in the next two-three years.

    Yet, no target was fixed nor any compulsion involved for the farmers to go for the new crop
    method. Under the I AM WARM project, funded by World Bank and implemented through the
    TNAU, a subsidy of Rs. 10,000 a ha was being given to the farmers, and for other areas the
    Agriculture Department was giving a subsidy of Rs 2,000 per ha.

    Asked how long the subsidy scheme would continue, Mr. Audiseshiah said it would be available
    only to the demonstration plots. However, the government had proposed to give 10,000 cono-
    weeders free of cost to the farmers during the next paddy season.

    Many benefits would accrue to the farmers by adopting the SRI technology: while the production
    cost under the traditional practice would be Rs 21,429 per ha, under the new system it would be
    Rs 19,060 per ha.

    Picture: Making an assessment: Officials inspecting the demonstration plot raising paddy
    under the System of Rice Intensification at Vikkiravandi near Villupuram on Wednesday.

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