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A Greener Paddy
TELANGANA
THE INITIATIVE
Launching System of Rice Intensification (SRI) Programme
THE BENEFICIARIES
Various tribes of Karimnagar district, Telangana
THE CHALLENGE
Attachment to traditional method of paddy cultivation
Unwillingness to adopt crop diversification, water conservation and new scientific cultivation practices
THE SOLUTION
NABARD sanctioned a project under the Indo-German Watershed Development Programme
Farmers were given SRI training which comprised seed treatment, nursery preparation, marking and transplantation
Markers, weeders, good quality seeds, neem-based bio-pesticides and vermicompost were provided to farmers
THE IMPACT
Increase in area covered under SRI from a mere 4acres to 307.5 acres over 4 years
142 farmers in the project district on SRI as against just 4 earlier
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