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INDIA - ARTICLES IN THE PRESS

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2023

[asterik (*) indicates System of Crop Intensification (SCI) which is SRI methods adapted to other crops]

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June 2023

• Farmers’ delegation submits 11-point demands to Panisagar agricultural superintendent [SRI amonth farmers demands to Panisagar Agricultural Superintendent in Tripura, India]
  June 22, 2023, TripuraTimes (Tripura, India)

April 2023

• ₹33cr climate resilience plan for Ganjam’s 4 coastal blocks [SRI is included]
  April 27, 2023, Times of India (Odisha, India)
• The future of sustainable agriculture in India: GM crops and beyond [SRI at top of examples list for sustainable agriculture]
  April 4, 2023, ISRGKB (India)

March 2023

• Climate-smart agriculture innovations give Assam farmers hope and income
  March 25, 2023, Northeast News Now (Assam, India)
• *Discussion about System of Wheat Intensification
  March 11, 2023, News Corporation (India)

February 2023

• Shortcomings in procurement hit farmers in Odisha [During kharif season, SRI yield per acre went up to 26 to 29 quintal per acre.]
  February 23, 2023, New Indian Express (Odisha, India)
• Promoting Agriculture in different districts of Odisha : Mr. Muralidhar Adhikari, CEO, Jaivik SRI Farmers Producer Company Ltd.
  February 15, 2023, Interview Times (Odisha, India)

January 2023

• TN honours its best on R-day [At the Republic Day celebrations in Chennai, Farmer G Vasantha of Aalavayal in Pudukottai, won the C Narayanasamy Naidu Award for the highest rice production. The award, which carries `5 lakh, a medal and a citation. She been growing rice SRI methods for the past 20 years,]
  January 27, 2023, New Indian Express (Tamil Nadu, India)

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2022

[asterik (*) indicates System of Crop Intensification (SCI) which is SRI methods adapted to other crops]

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December 2022

• 2022. Why India refused to sign the ‘Methane Pledge’ : Daily Current Affairs. Dhyeya IAS website. December 27. [An interesting set of reasons not to sign the Methane Pledge. However, SRI is promoted as what India can do to reduce methane emissions.]
• Panda, Luna, and Sagarika Mishra. 2022. Good practices 55 - From farm to market – Pragati’s journey with finger millet farmers. Agriculture in South Asia website. December 22. [SFMI in Odisha]
• Paliath, Shreehari. 2022. 'India must develop an ecosystem-centric approach for agriculture'. IndiaSpend website. December 16. [Not much about SRI, but the context in which it exists]
• 2022. Blog 188- Behaviour change communications for improving soil health and building climate resilience. Agriculture Extension in South Asia website. ~December 1.

November 2022

• *GM mustard: Where is data on biosafety and higher yield? [GM article notes SMI..]
  November 29, 2022, Fortune India (India)
• Chakravarthy, A.B. 2022. How can technology innovations sustainably solve the global food challenge? Upaya website. November 14.
• Conserving water can help avoid existing and future crisis [As SRI up to 44% water, Mountain Research Center for Field Crops (MRCFC)-Khudwani has been working on resources conservation technologies under All India Coordinated Research Project (AICRP) including SRI and direct dry seeded rice.]
  November 3, 2022, Kashmir Reader (Jammu and Kashmir, India)
• Tripura registers shortfall in paddy cultivation due to low rainfall ["Since the previous Left Front government, Tripura has been working to boost paddy production with innovative techniques like System of Rice Intensification (SRI)."]
  November 2, 2022, Hindustan Times (Tripura, India)
• Expect no serious adverse impact on Aman paddy output despite rainfall deficit: Tripura agri official [ICM recommended over SRI]
  November 1, 2022, The New Indian Express (Tripura, India)

October 2022

• Rice insecurity: The depletion of groundwater resources and the increasing cost of cultivation may put rice production in jeopardy in the future [SRI suggested to reduce water use]
  October 7, 2022, New Indian Express (India)
• 2022. India’s rice exports and food insecurity. Civils Daily (2nd paper). October 7. [Conclusion suggests SRI]

September 2022

• VIEWS. 2022. Promoting sustainable livelihoods. VIEWS website. September 11. [SRI and SMI (millet) are two of the five methods of farm-based livelihoods supported by the VIEWS NGO in Odisha, India.]
• 2022. Water use in agriculture. Insights on India website. September.
• 2022. Rochefort-en-Terre. L’association locale Ingalañ lance une collecte de fonds pour le Burkina Faso. Ouest-France website. August 11. [French NGO has promoted SRI in Burkina Faso since 2012.]
• Sunaratiya, Aakash, and Rahul Banick. 2022. System of Wheat Intensification (SWI): A novel approach. Food and Agriculture: E-Newsletter 4(9): 397-402. [accessed September 6, 2022]
• Kumari, Binita. 2022. System of Rice Intensification (SRI): Practices, varieties, and seed treatment. Krishi Jagran website, Agripedia section. Updated April 29, 2022. [Manual for SRI in India] [accessed September 6, 2022]

August 2022

• 2022. Short note on Andhra Pradesh agriculture. Mandi Bhav website. August 27. [Andhra Pradesh is set to scale new heights in agriculture during the 12 Five Year Plan with a renewed focus on Micro Irrigation, System of Rice Intensification (SRI) cultivation, micronutrient application, development of dryland agriculture, farm mechanization, increasing storage capacity and other agriculture-related strategies.]
• 2022. UPSC Essentials: One word a day – SRI | UPSC Current Affairs News – The Indian Express. Shreya Edits website. August 27. [Study material that ends up pondering the difference between SRI and DSR.]
• Sought for devpt projects, Aquem-Baixo farmers retain and cultivate paddy fields [Farmers use SRI in new project]
  August 10, 2022, The Goan (Goa, India)
• Roopa, Nupur. 2022. The magic of a fistful seeds. Earth Island Journal. August 12. [Story about Sabarmatee, whose NGO uses SRI to multiply, distribute and promote traditional seeds.]
• VC SKUAST-K visits MRCFC Khudwani, reviews progress research projects [Vice Chancellor SKUAST-Kashmir visited the Mountain Research Centre for Field Crops (MRCFC) and recommended promoting DSR and SRI]
  August 8, 2022, Kashmir Reader (Kashmir, India)
• The green revolution in Goa
  August 2, 2022, Gomantak Times (Goa, India)

July 2022

• Sell produce to consumers directly: Official to farmers [Ag. director says to use SRI so as not to waste seed.]
  July 29, 2022, Times of India (Tamil Nadu, India)
• 2022. System of Rice Intensification (SRI). Journals of India. July 28. [Compares SRI with other methods of rice production in India.]
• Verma, Anil, and Rina Devi. 2022. “I will try organic farming”: Women in Gaya make a choice. IDR website. July 19. [Story of how PRAN helped women adopt SRI in the Shekhwara village, Gaya District, Bihar, India]
• 2022. BALCO transforming lives of farmers. News Riveting website. July 27. [Bharat Aluminium Company (BALCO) Limited's flagship initiative, ‘Mor Jal Mor Maati’,in Chattisgarh State includes SRI.]
• UPSC Essentials: One word a day – SRI
  July 26, 2022, The Indian Express (India) [Unfortunately, you need a subscription to read]
• Amid erratic climate, Kerala's paddy cultivation dwindles, demands more irrigation
  July 22, 2022, Daijiworld.com (Kerala, India)
• IANS. 2022. Paddy cultivation in Kerala increasingly dependent on due to erratic climate. Weather Channel Indiawebsite. July 21.

June 2022

• SRI paves way through India’s rising water scarcity
  June 24, 2022, Chronicle Times (Punjab, India)
• Water management in paddy cultivation
  June 14, 2022, E-PAO (Manipur, India)
• 2022? Game changing rice culture empowers rural women to ensure food security in South Odisha. Women Gender Constituency website. [Pragati Koruput in India cited a honoree in Women Gender Constituency's awards for "Gender Just Climate Solutions."] [accessed June 6, 2022]
• 2022. SPR 2022: Sustainable Agriculture technologies. Samajho website. May. [The pros and cons of almost any Sustainable Agriculture methodology you can think of, including SRI. This is a prep site for Indian Civil Service exams.] [accessed June 6, 2022]
• Climate Lab proving to be a game changer for farmers [Tamil Nadu SRI farmer reports on weather program]
  June 2, 2022, The Hindu (Tamil Nadu, India)
• Don't make Punjab a junkyard for machines [Brief mention of SRI as an innovation not always requiring big equipment]
  June 2, 2022, The Tribune (Punjab India)
• Water released for irrigation [Cooperation Minister I. Periyasamy released the water for the kuruvai crop in the double crop areas are Tamil Nadu and urged farmers to adopt SRI.]
  June 1, 2022, The Hindu (Tamil Nadu, India)

May 2022

• Amruta, Patil. 2022. System of Rice Intensification(SRI) method of sowing paddy is being promoted by Punjab Government (UPSC Current Affairs). Prepp website. May 30. [Site that helps Indian students prepare for exams.]
• Balachandran, P.K. 2022. Ways to meet the impending food crisis in Sri Lanka – Analysis. eurasiareview website. May 25. [SRI suggested as an option. This article also argues that Sri Lanka's ban on chemical fertilizers hurt the country's rice production.]
• Tata Trust. System of Rice Intensification Initiative. Tata Trust website. [Tata Trust's SRI successes and areas of operation --12 states] [accessed May 22, 2022]
• Explained: How SRI method of sowing paddy saves 15-20% water, gives better yield [SRI experiences/aspirations for Punjab]
  May 27, 2022, New Indian Express [Punjab, India]
• Telangana: SRI helps in reduction of pumping hours and irrigation days [SRI impact assessment in 20 project villages in Narayanpet shows farmers cut down input costs, improve plant growth and water savings,]
  May 16, 2022, Telangana Today (Telangana, India)
• SRI method requires less input costs, improves paddy yield: Study in Telangana's Narayanpet
  May 12, 2922, New Indian Express (Telangana, India)
• Farmers to learn modern cultivation techniques [Since the intermittent rain during the northeast monsoon will not be suitable for allowing the field to get dry, farmers should use SRI during the ‘kar’ paddy season.]
  May 11, 2022, The Hindu (Tamil Nadu, India)

April 2022

• T.N. reaching saturation level in foodgrain production [C. Ramasamy, former Vice-Chancellor TNAU, says the paddy production can go up 90 lakh tonnes if there is an intense campaign to adopt the SRI, train farmers and regulate fertilization.]
  April 25, 2022, The Hindu (Tamil Nadu, India)
• Rice fish crop rotation in valley districts of Manipur [Good example of crop rotation with SRI]
  April 17, 2022, E-Pao (Manipur, India) [Also in Sangai Express on April 12, 2022]

March 2022

• Modern Farming: Goa's Visakha adopts modern farming, specializes in SRI technology
  March 15, 2022, Kisan of India (Goa, India) [Original: Modern Farming: गोवा की विशाखा ने अपनाई आधुनिक खेती, SRI तकनीक में माहिर

January 2022

• Tripura: Farmers’ victory rally raises 10 demands [SRI among the 10 demand raised by farmers]
  January 3, 2022, The Citizen (Tripura, India)

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2021

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December 2021

• ‘Mechanised transplanting of paddy will save farmers ₹3,600 per acre’
  December 8, 2021, The Hindu (Tamil Nadu, India)
• Climate smart water saving techniques for mitigation of climate change impacts in hill agriculture
  December 7, 2021, The Sangai Express (Manipur, India)

November 2021

• Sustainable farm practices need of the hour [Himanshu Thakur talk about SRI and other items in relation to soil moisure and COP26]
  November 15, 2021, The Tribune (India)
• Pernem farmer harvests 1.5 tonne of hybrid, local rice varieties organically using ‘better yield’ tech
  November 8, 2021, Times of India (Goa, India)

October 2021

• Agro dept urges ryots to grow 'black rice'
  October 16, 2021, Times of India (Goa, India)
• Farm mechanization in rice cultivation [Notes transplanters and weeders appropriate for SRI.]
  October 1, 2021, Greater Kashmir (Kashmir, India)

September 2021

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August 2021

• Letters to the editor - SRI technology to boost paddy cultivation (letter #2; farmer talks to PM Modi about SRI)
  August 11, 2021, Herald (Goa, India)
• Netravali woman farmer uses tech to boost farm output, gets PM's attention [Goa woman talks about SRI to PM]
  August 10, 2021, Times of India (Goa, India)
• Telangana farmer who changed kismet of waste land
  August 9, 2021, New Indian Express (Telangana, India)

July 2021

• Setting trends in adopting better farming practices [Farmer in Krishnagiri district becomes sought-after SRI trainer.]
  July 30, 2021, The Times of India (Tamil Nadu, India)
• Sustainable Agriculture: What we know and how to scale up [SRI's potential and current contributions noted]
  July 17, 2021, Hindustan Times (India) [see full report that the article by Niti Gupta et al refers to here:
• SRI method of cultivation adopted in Cheiphobozou and Botsa block [Being implemented under SDAO Chiefphobozou National Food Security Mission]
  July 8, 2021, The Morung Express (Nagaland, India)
• After 25 years, farmers get ready for ‘kar’ paddy cultivation [Farmers being advised to use SRI during ‘kar’ paddy season for better yield and consequent increased income.]
  July 8, 2021, The Hindu (Tamil Nadu, India)
• SRI method of cultivation adopted in Cheiphobozou and Botsa block [Being implemented under SDAO Chiefphobozou National Food Security Mission]
  July 8, 2021, The Morung Express (Nagaland, India)
• After 25 years, farmers get ready for ‘kar’ paddy cultivation [Farmers being advised to use SRI during ‘kar’ paddy season for better yield and consequent increased income.]
  July 8, 2021, The Hindu (Tamil Nadu, India)

June 2021

• CAU expert disapproves use of paddy seeds from granary [SRI is a must for Seed Production Programme taken up jointly by the Central Agricultural University, Imphal, and farmers; CAU want farmers to use better seed.]
  June 21, 2021, E-Pao (Manipur, India)
• Wheat Field Day observed at MRCFC, (SKUAST-Kashmir) Khudwani [Mountain Research Centre for Field Crops, Khudwani (Kashmir), notes their work in recommending SRI and other resource-conserving methods.]
  June 19, 2021, Kashmir Reader (Kashmir, India)
• Paddy transplantation in full swing across Madurai
  June 2021, The Hindu (Tamil Nadu, India)

April 2021

• How an alcohol-addicted village became a model for organic farming [SRI part of the story!]
  April 9, 2021, Daijiworld (India)

March 2021

• A green success story unfolds on farm at Pedda Kurumapally village in Telangana [City man returns to farming]
  March 8, 2021, The Hindu (Telangana, India)

January 2021

• *2022. WTO verdict on sugar subsidies and india's sugarcane industry. IASGYAN website. [SSI recommended]. [accessed January 27, 2022]
• *2022. Sustainable Sugarcane Initiative (SSI). Byju's website, current affairs section. [accessed January 27, 2022]
• *2020. Sustainable Sugarcane Initiative (SSI) in sugarcane cultivation. Easgri.info website. November 10. [accessed January 27,
• Awards for farmer producer companies from this year [Among Republic Day awards given was the ‘Thiru. C. Narayanasamy Naidu Award’ for highest productivity with SRI which was won by G. Selvakumar of Srivilliputhur, Tamil Nadu.]
  Janaury 26, 2021, The Hindu (Tamil Nadu, India)
• Padhee, Arabinda K., and Anthony Whitbread. 2022. Indian agriculture: The route post-CoP 26. Down to Earth blog. January 18. [Strategies to make Indian agriculture resilient and sustainable in a changing climate. Brief mention of SRI. This story has been corrected to reflect that India did not sign the Sustainable Agriculture Policy Action Agenda].
• Good response to farmers’ schemes: Collector
  January 10, 2021, The Hindu (Tamil Nadu, India)

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2020

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December 2020

• Award to be named after ryots’ leader [SRI contest to be named after farmer rights leader C Narayanasamy Naidu.]
  December 22, 2020, New Indian Express (Tamil Nadu, India)

November 2020

• Livelihood initiatives benefit over 1450 farmers in Noamundi [Over 101 farmers trained on SRI cultivation by Tata Steel Foundation in Noamundi,West Singhbhum district, Jharkhand, India.]
  November 3, 2020, Town Post (India)

September 2020

• ATMAs conduct activities for farmers across Nagaland [A number of blocks have SRI activities conducted by ATMA]
  September 22, 2020. Nagaland Post (Nagaland, India)
• Paddy farmers begin preparing nursery [Joint Director of Agriculture says Agricultural dept. extensively promotes SRI on Madurai's 49,900 ha for Samba season.]
  September 12, 2020, The Hindu (Tamil Nadu, India)
• Nagaland farm school inauguration and trainings held at several locations
  September 11, 2020, Eastern Mirror (Nagaland, India)
• SRI farming successful in Tuophema village [SRI Farm School launched by ATMA Kohima Botsa block in Tuophema village, Nagaland, on Sept. 3.]
  Septmeber 8, 2020, Morung Express (Nagaland, India)
• Conservation of traditional rice varieties take a new path [M.S. Swaminathan Research Foundation (MSSRF) begins a 3-year experiment to study traditional varieties and the best SRI practices to grow them.]
  September 1, 2020, The Hindu (Kerala, India)
  

August 2020

• Green development: Strategising mitigation of agricultural methane emissions [SRI, in combination with solar-powered drip emitters along with artificial intelligence (AI)-embedded systems could be the best bet to increase rice yield and mitigate methane emission significantly.]
  August 24, 2020, Financial Express (India)
• Lotus Foods Basmati Is first rice to achieve Regenerative Organic certification [This rice is grown with SRI methods.]
  August 11, 2020, Cision PR Newswire (USA)
• Nagarathnam Naidu, the ryot who turned barren land into fertile farm [Telangana farmer tames wasteland; gets 92 bags/acre of paddywith SRI.]
  August 10, 2020, Telangana Today (Telangana, India)

July 2020

• After success in trial, S Goa farmers grow basmati rice [Basmati trials used SRI]
  July 20, 2020, Times of India (Goa, India)
• Chiephobozou SDAO introduces system of rice intensification [Nagaland farmers in Chiephobozou learn SRI under India's National Food Secuity Mission.]
  July 16, 2020, Eastern Mirror (India)
• We are expecting a good crop, say kuruvai farmers [SRI to be promoted on 80% of the 4,800 ha of canal-irrigated areas in Tiruchi district.]
  July 2, 2020, The Hindu (Tamil Nadu, India)
  

June 2020

• #Monsoon2020: Two new technologies to boost rice production and conserve natural resources [Author suggests DSR and SRI for upcoming monsoon season.]
  June 9, 2020, Krishi Jagran (India)
• Royalty, MSP hike evoke mixed response [G.S. Unnikrishnan Nair, a retired Additional Director of Agriculture, says Increasing MSP and royalties for rice land is good, but SRI should be promoted to increase productivity]
  June 2, 2020, The Hindu (Kerala, India)

May 2020

• SRI method takes a back seat in paddy cultivation
  May 2, 2020, Times of India (Goa, India)

April 2020

• Encourage SRI method (Letters to the editor) [Rajiv Maga suggests mechanized SRI for Covid19 times.]
  April 24, 2020, Hindu Businessline (Karnataka, India)
• COVID-19 in Rural India-XX: Life on Hold in Tripura
  April 22, 2020, NewsClick (Tripura, India)

March 2020

• Madurai farmers wait endlessly for more DPCs [After 15 years, Madurai farmers generally adopt SRI now.]
  March 16, 2020, The Hindu (Tamil Nadu, India)
• Badalta Bharat: Promoting growth in rural India [Adani Foundation's SRI initiative has changed the lives of 1,30,000 beneficiaries in almost 64 villages in and around Maharashtra’s Tirora town.]
  March 4, 2020, Republic (Maharashtra, India)

February 2020

• Tamil Nadu budget 2020-21: Rs 11,000 crore allotted for crop loan [Tamil Ndu Deputy Chief Minister says will be expanded to 27.18 lakh acres in 2020-21.]
  February 14, 2020, Times of India (Tamil Nadu, Inda)
• Nagai farmers reap success of SRI method
  February 12, 2020, New Indian Express (Tamil Nadu, India) [Four SRI farmers received ‘Best Farmer’ awards from their blocks on Republic Day.]
• Father, daughter duo gets Padma Shri for 30-year-long conservation experiment [Sabarmatee, long-time SRI champion, and her father win a pretigious award in India.]
  January 27, 2020, The Hindu (Odisha, India) [accessed February 7, 2020]

January 2020

• Tamil Nadu CM Edappadi Palaniswami presents State awards during Republic Day function [S. Yuvakumar, farmer from Kunnangattu Valasu, Pasuvapatti village in Erode district received special award for highest yield by adopting SRI; award carries cash prize of Rs 5 lakh and a medal.]
  January 27, 2020, New Indian Express (Tamil Nadu, India)
• COP26: India must commit to landmark Koronivia Joint Work on Agriculture [KJWA doc notes like SRI and Sustainable Sugarcane Initiative noted as sustainable solutions for water use efficiency]
  January 20, 2020, Financial Express (India)
  
• SRI farming methodology training under Jeevan Jeuti Krishak Sangha held in Morigaon [Day-long training held at farmers’ club held at Oujar; 300 youth farmers trained in SRI under the District Agriculture Department.]
  January 6, 2020, The Sentinel (Assam, India)

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2019

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December 2019

• Paddy cultivation in full swing [1,500 hectares are targeted for SRI cultivation in Athoor block. So farm, 800 have been completed. Under the SRI programme of the Antional Agriculture devleopment Programme, demos have been conduted on 45 acres there]
  December 14, 2019, The Hindu (Tamil Nadu, India)

October 2019

• Workers in demand at farm lands [Over 80 per cent of farmers in the delta (Tiruchy) have adopted the SRI. Workers scarce, using more machines.]
  October 21, 2019, The New Indian Express (Tamil Nadu, India)
• 13,000 hectares under organic farming in Nagaland [SRI encouraged at World Food Day 2019 celebrariont in Nagaland.]
  October 17, 2019, Morung Express (Nagaland, India)
• New rice planting technique can save use of seeds and water [Professor recommends SRI for Punjab...]
  October 15, 2019, Times of India (Punjab, India)
• Farmers receive rice intensification training
  October 15, 2019 The Arunachal Times (Arunachal, india)
  
• Scientists inspect rice cultivation in Bokaro [National Rice Research Institute, Cuttack, and others visit SRI fields and find success.]
  October 2, 2019, The Pioneer (Jharkhand, India)

September 2019

• Agriculture 4.0: Here are 10 elements of strategy that the sector needs [SRI noted in list of 10 reccomded elements for Agircutlure 4.0 strategy.]
  September 19, 2019, Financial Express (India)
• What will we eat? Climate-resilient farming best hope to solve the food security question [SRI one of methods cited to increase crop resilience]
  September 18, 2019, News18 (India)
• Agriculture Department eyes bumper harvest [Director of Ag. urged the officials to ensure that the System of Rice Intensification (SRI) techniques was adopted in at least 80 % of area cultivated.]
  September 6, 2019, The Hindu (Tamil Nadu, India)
• Trg on rice intensification imparted [SRI training for 40 farmers from Longking district]
  September 4, 2019, Arunachal times (Arunachal, India)

August 2019

• Samba cultivation set to expand in Karur [Samba paddy to be grown on about 33,250 acres in Karur district; almost all fields in the areas would be brought under SRI.]
  August 27, 2019, The Hindu (Tamil Nadu, India)
• Use certified quality seeds for good yield, farmers told [SRI suggested to for higher yield and water management.]
  August 16, 2019, Times of India (India)

July 2019

• Farmers urged to go for alternative crops [SRI/SSI recommended to bring down water usage.]
  July 16, 2019, The Hindu (Andhra Pradesh, India)
• Coimbatore agri trade fair to focus on taking technology to micro and small farmers [SRI/SSI could be helped by access to tech at agri trade fair]
  July 9, 2019, Times of India (Tamil Nadu, India)

June 2019

• Drought teaches people the value of water [SRI more popular as people realize water shortages.]
  June 28, 2019, The Hindu (Tamil Nadu, India)
  
• Margao: As monsoon delays, farmers worry for paddy crops [Late monsoon causes concern; SRI still not widely practiced.]
  June 9, 2019, The Times of India (Goa, India)

May 2019

• Arid Karnataka can’t just ‘bank’ on its rivers [SRI and SSI need to be increased as part of river-related water problems.]
  May 31, 2019, The Asian Age (Karnataka, India)
• Capacity building prog held at Kigwema [Kohima District training on SRI and other topics)
  May 27, 2019, Morung Express (Nagaland, India)

April 2019

• Not all superheros wear capes! [Jyoti’ won as the JD(U) candidate from the reserved seat (Scheduled Caste) of Barachatti in Gaya district, Bihar. Besides motivating them to stand up against violence,she trained women in SRI methods. It was Jyoti’s success in turning vast barren lands into green belts with the SRI technique and other indigenous methods that caught the attention of Chief Minister Nitish Kumar...]
  April 15, 2019, Opinion Express Group (Bihar, India)
• Major highlights of Janasena election Manifesto [SRI #8 of 28 of Pawan Kalyan's Jana Sena Party's elections manifesto]
  April 3, 2019, Xappie (India)

March 2019

• Earn while You Learn programme Inaugurated in TNAU [Tamil Nadu Ag. Univ. students get their own SRI plots and sell the rice]
  March 15, 2019, The Covai Post (Tamil Nadu, India)
• 'Seed Mother' who never went to school has lessons for scientists [SRI farmer success story]
  March 4, 2019, Hindu BusinessLine (Maharashtra, India)
• Tripura govt initiates steps to double farmers income: Jishnu Debbarma [Tripura Govt. making efforts to increase rice production through SRI and hybrids]
  March 1, 2019, United News of India (Tripura, India)

February 2019

• On farm trial on System of Rice Intensification (SRI) under Wokha, District [SRI instructions by Senior Scientist & Head (i/c) KVK (ICAR), Kiphire, Nagaland]
  February 28, 2019, The Morung Express (Nagaland, India)
• Cheaper technology for paddy cultivation [Startup India Punjab Yatra winners include Dhaiya Agricultural Tools entry with plan to produce SRI transplanter]
  February 9, 2019, The Tribune India (Punjab, India)
  
• For Climate-Smart Agriculture to succeed, need to take into account social dynamics [A study in Telangana found that unequal ownership of land and the social position of farmers strongly regulated their ability to sustain the use SRI.]
  Feburary 1, 2019, The Wire (Telangana, India)

January 2019

• Ministry of Agriculture & Farmers Welfare of R: Reducing Carbon Emission by Altering the Method of Farming [Article on Indian Ministry of Ag carbon initiatives listed first in list of soil, water and crop management practices that reduce carbon emission.]
  January 2, 2019, MarketScreener (India)
• Reducing carbon emission by altering the method of farming [Info from the Minister of State for Ministry of Agriculture & Farmers Welfare lists SRI as number 1 of 8 suggested soil, water and crop management practices that reduce carbon emission.]
  January 2, 2019, The Open View (India)

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2018

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December 2018

• Karur paddy farmers take to SRI technique [Of the 11,135 ha now cultivated in Karur district, 8,546 ha. are grown with SRI nethods (70% of actual paddy cultivated area).
  December 29, 2019, The Hindu (Tamil Nadu, India)
• Cultivable area fast dwindling in Madurai [In a district of Madurai, though cultivable area had shrunk by almost 50% in the yield had not come down. In 2000, SRI was launched, only 5% of farmers switched from conventional method. "Today, over a period of 15 years, almost 70% have adopted SRI technique. Not only do they save on cost, but water and labour too were minimal."]
  December 10, 2018, The Hindu (Tamil Nadu, India)

November 2018

• Efforts on to promote SRI in paddy cultivation
  November 1, 2018, The Hindu (Tamil Nadu, India)

October 2018

• Nearly, 84 villages adopt SRI cultivation method in Tiruchy
  October 31, 2018, DT Next (Tamil Nadu, India)
• Samba paddy cultivation picks up [41,760 ha of SRI sown in Tiruvarur district, Tamil Nadu, for samba season.]
  October 26, 2018, The Hindu (Tamil Nadu, India)
• With the onset of monsoon, samba cultivation picks up in Tiruchi district [The Agriculture department is hoping to promote SRI in at least 75% of the cultivated areas in the district this year. ]
  September 23, 2018, The Hindu (Tamil Nadu, India) [Story of Sabarmatee, and SRI icon, as part of a series on Most Powerful Women - 2018]

September 2018

• Diversified farming [Story of Sabarmatee, and SRI icon, as part of a series on Most Powerful Women - 2018]
  September 23, 2018, Business Today (Odisha / New Delhi, India) [Story of Sabarmatee, and SRI icon, as part of a series on Most Powerful Women - 2018]
• Dry spell likely to hit paddy yield by 25% [Dry spell affecting paddy; bulk of paddy in the state is grown by traditional methods despite efforts by the government to popularise the SRI]
  September 19, 2018, Navhind Times (Goa, India)

August 2018

• Delta farmers dance to ‘samba’ beat [Ag. Dept. wants to expand SRI in Cauvery delta, which is already at 65% to 70 % of paddy area in the district]
  August 29, 2018, The Hindu (Tamil Nadu, India)
• Farmers told to make good use of bountiful rains [Despite good rains, farmers advised to adopt SRI to save money, time in transplanting, minimized fertilizer and improve yields.]
  August 25, 2018, The Hindu (Tamil Nadu, India)
• A brand icon for organic farming
  August 2, 2018, The Times of India (Tamil Nadu, India)

July 2018

• Tata Steel at Sukinda creating sustainable livelihood opportunities for farmers [Tata Steel Rural Development Society (TSRDS), the CSR wing of Tata Steel at Sukinda, has promoted SRI for 5 years. In 2018, 10 training sessions were held and 213 farmers have adopted.]
  July 30, 2018, OrissaDiary.com (Odisha, India)
• Rice can now be grown in drought, high temperatures, thanks to this new technique [Article on two ways to reduce water use: breeding for fewer stomata OR SRI.]
  July 27, 2018, India Today (India)
• Make use of copious water in dams: Theni Collector [Appeals for use of SRI technique to reap higher yield]
  July 20, 2018, The Hindu (Tamil Nadu, India)
  
• What is SRI Rice? [Students at Don Bosco College of Agriculture share SRI experience plus Trichoderma and Beauvaria bassiana in seedbed for disease and insect control.]
  July 17, 2018, Navhind Times (Goa, India)
• Drought fear looms large in state [SRI suggested if monsoon rains fail to come on time]
  July 15, 2018, The Pioneer (Jharkhand, India)
• *SSI brings hope to distressed sugarcane farmers [812 farmers increased yield by 10 tons/ha in NIRMAN/Tata Trust SSI project in Bhapur block]
  July 13, 2018, EodishaSAMANCHAR (Odisha, India)
• Taking to the field [The Agri Sprouts Group of DBCA-Sulcorna take part in SRI demo in Malcornem village, Goa]
  July 13, 2018, Herald (Goa, India)
• Jagjivan Ram Innovative Awards reach the state for the first time [T.V. Rajanarayanan, SRI farmer (among other things) from Tiruvilwamala, Kerala, wins Zone XI Jagjivan Ram Innovative Farmer Award of ₹50,000, an equal amount of travel grant and a citation.]
  July 10, 2018, The Hindu (Kerala, India)
  
• JNAU inks pact with MPWFDC for Tejasvini programme [SRI-based vegetable production included rural women empowerment program of Jawaharlal Nehru Agriculture University (JNAU)]
  July 6, 2018, The Hitavada (Madhya Pradesh, India)
• This farmer lures birds to manage pests [SRI farmer plants fruit trees to lure birds to eat pests]
  July 5, 2018, The Times of India (Tamil Nadu, India)

June 2018

• ATMA activities reports from across Nagaland [A press release from ATMA Ahthibung block said Lireni trained farmers on the importance of SRI for sustainable livelihood]
  June 29, 2018, NagalandPost (Nagaland, India)
• Paddy to be cultivated on 10,000 ha [Of the 10,000 hectares, they have been advised to follow SRI on at least 7,500 haa]
  June 29, 2018, The Hindu (Tamil Nadu, India)
• Making e-flows central to water conflicts [SRI can increase yields while cutting water use; soil management leads to yield enhancement]
  June 27, 2018, Business Line (Tamil Nadu, India)
• Farmers advised to adopt SRI for better yield during crisis [Scientists at Tamil Nadu Agricultural University, Krishi Vigyan Kendra (KVK) organize one-day training on SRI]
  June 20, 2018, The Times of India (Tamil Nadu, India)
• Aerobic rice tech [Letter from Karnataka about plans to promote aerobic rice technology in 5 states reminds readers that this is not new since SRI is already well known there.]
  June 19, 2018, BusinessLine (India)
• Tamil Nadu foodgrain production to stagnate at 11- lakh tonnes [SRI to be promoted on 10 lakh acres to reduce water use.]
  June 13, 2018, The Times of India (Tamil Nadu, India)

May 2018

• Harish Kumar strikes gold by adopting Integrated Farming method
  May 30, 2018, The Hitavada (Chhattisgarh, India)
• Farmers trained on System of Rice Intensification management [SRI training at Ahthibung block under Atma Peren]
  May 29, 2018, Morung Express (Nagaland, India)
• Weekend, Bupati Luwu Timur Sambangi Petani di Angkona [Bupati of Luwu Timur, South Sulawesi, monitored SRI progress in Village Manggala, District Mangkutana.]
  May 7, 2018, TribunLutim (South Sulawesi, Indonesia)
• When Bhivpuri took a U-turn [Rural Communes NGO promotes SRI/SCI to improve yields. Better ventilation by spacing rows ensures improved growth, and shorter periods for crops to attain maturity.]
  May 4, 2018, Hindu Business Line (Maharashtra, India)
• *Government project to boost cane production [TN Ag. Dept. promoting SSI to deal with changing climate conditions and to raise yields.]
  May 4, 2018, New Indian Express (Tamil Nadu, India)
• Farmers urged to be proactive [Chet Bahadur was awarded as the best progressive farmer (Organic Farming) shared his SRI success story in May 2 Farmer Welfare Workshop in Singrijan village]
  May 3, 2018, Morung Express (Nagaland, India)
• Bumper vegetable, wheat yields push back farm distress in UP [At a time when farmers across the country are feeling marginalised, many unable to meet the rising costs of seeds, fertilisers, weighed down by loans, the Aga Khan Foundation (AKF)SRI and SWI yields of both crops have increased 50 to 100 per cent and additional income has come from high value vegetable cultivation.]
  May 2, 2018, The Asia Age (Uttar Pradesh, India)
• Farmers’ welfare meet aims at doubling farmers’ income by 2022 [At farmers' welfare workshop, Neiliehunuo Solo shared her success story on how SRI helped her to decrease the labour and increase the yield and motivated her to till her paddy field after a gap of six years.]
  May 2, 2018, Eastern Mirror (Nagaland, India)

April 2018

• How to make food and agriculture sustainable [Sustainable technologies like SRI suggested]
  April 30, 2018, Financial Express (India)
• Adopting new approaches to farming underscored [ICAR Interface Meeting stresses SRI and HYVs for rice prodcution increase.]
  April 30, 2018, The Sangai Express (Manipur, India)
• Agriculture Dept ensures sustainability of production and income for farmers [SRI adopted to increase production of rice at low cost in West Bengal.]
  April 25, 2018, United News of India (West Bengal, India)
• KVKs conduct trainings on crop productions in Kohima, Wokha [April 6 training at Nerhe Pezha covers SRI]
  April 18, 2018, Nagaland Post (Nagaland, India)
  April 3, 2018, Greater Kashmir (Kashmir, India)
• Rice in water scarcity? Yes, why not [SRI has been described as one of the strategies that could contribute towards achieving the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)]
  April 2, 2018, Greater Kashmir (Kashmir, India)
• ‘Rice intensification system’ can save farmers of parched Kashmir? [Amidst the worst concerns of the farmers in Kashmir in view of prolonged dry spell, SKUAST-K recommends SRI.]
  April 3, 2018, Greater Kashmir (Kashmir, India)

March 2018

• Farming in Tamil Nadu ready for a turnaround
  March 25, 2018, The Hindu (Tamil Nadu, India)
• Budget for 2018-19 lays thrust on agro processing sector [TN state budget: SRI will be promoted on 10 lakh hectares during 2018-2019.]
  March 15, 2018, The Hindu Business Line (Tamil Nadu, India)
• Farmers’ income doubled in six years [State Ag. Minister says SRI has been adopted to increase the production of rice at low cost]
  March 10, 2018, United News of India (Kolkata, India)
• Woman conservationist from Odisha receives ‘Nari Shakti Award’
  March 9, 2018, Odisha Sun Times (Odisha, India)
• Agri budget presented in Assembly [(SRI) has been adopted to increase the production of rice at low cost.]
  March 5, 2018, Millennium Post (West Bengal(?), India)

February 2018

• Here’s how a Hyderabad farm has been experimenting with rice
  February 14, 2018, The Hindu (Telangana, India)
• Tech push to boost crop yield
  February 8, 2018, The Telegraph (Jharkhand, India)
• [Food security: Trying new rice cultivation method
  November 15, 2017 The Financial Express. Accessed Feb, 7, 2018]

January 2018

• As the republic chugged into 69th year... [Notes that special award for achieving the highest yield of paddy in the state was given to farmer R Munusamy from Kullanur village who used SRI]
  January 27, 2018, The Times of India (Tamil Nadu, India)
• Promoting sustainable agriculture [Biksham Gujja promotes SRI/SSI for TEC India agenda of the 2017-18 Union Budget]
  January 24, 2018, milleniumpost (India)
• A river runs through it [The Cauvery water sharing dispute... SRI/SSI could reduce water need]
  January 11, 2018, Deccan Chronicle (Karnataka, India)
• Seed chronicles [SRI used by Centre for Indian Knowledge Systems for produceding indigenous seeds because it requires fewer seed.]
  January 9, 2018, The Hindu (India)

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2017

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December 2017

• World Bank to provide $318 mn loan for Tamil Nadu irrigation projects [$318 million loan for the Tamil Nadu Irrigated Agriculture Modernization Project that includes SRI and SSI]
  December 26, 2017, Business Standard (Tamil Nadu, India)
• WB to fund $455m irrigation project [Project will also support smallholder producers to adopt new conservation technologies SRI and SSI which reduce average water usage by 35 per cent and increase yields by 22 per cent per hectare.]
  December 16, 2017, The Indian Express (Tamil Nadu, India)
• *Katoch, Manabi. 2017. This farmer grew 100 tonnes of 20-foot tall sugarcane in one acre! Here’s how! The Better India website. December 13. [Maharashtra farmer uses SSI to increase yield. Great photos.]
• Agri plan to win pest attack fight [Agri plan to combat pest attack on paddy in Odisha, India, promotes SRI, neem-based fertilisers and Trichoderma]
  December 6, 2017, New Indian Express (Odisha, India)
• *Tribal farmers reap it rich in ragi cultivation
  December 4, 2017, The Hindu (Andhra Pradesh, India)
• $318 Million project to support climate resilient agriculture – Over 500,000 farmers to benefit in Tamil Nadu, India [Press release about project including SRI and SSI]
  December 1, 2017, World Bank (re:Tamil Nadu, India)

November 2017

• Agri dept targets 500 hectares under machine planting [20,000 hectares out of target area will be covered by SRI]
  November 24, 2017, Times of India (Tamil Nadu, India)
• *Rai, Vijay. 2017. Farmers turn to organic farming in Bundelkhand. Welthungerhilfe website. November 23. [Story of System of Vegetable Intensification (SVI) in a Welthungerhilfe-funded project Kapuriya, a tribal village in the district of Sheopur in Madhya Pradesh.]
• Organic push to tilling
  November 20, 2017, The Telegraph (Bihar, India)
• 2017. Hundreds of students join organic rice harvesting in Bihar. Matters India. November 19. [This is the seventh consecutive year of organic farming with SRI at Tarumitra, a Jesuit farm near Patna.]

October 2017

• Sécurité alimentaire: les enfants aussi [Project in Odisha, India, implemented by CARD, a Swiss NGO, promotes SRI.]
  October 16, 2017, Le Courrier (Switzerland, re: Odisha, India)
• Cultiver las force des plus faibles [Project in Odisha, India, implemented by CARD, a Swiss NGO, promotes SRI.]
  October 12, 2017, Le Courrier (Switzerland, re: Odisha, India)

September 2017

• SRI method gains popularity in Krishna [31,000 ha. under SRI cultivation in the kharif season.]
  September 23, 2017, The Hindu, (Andhra Pradesh, India)
  
• Team KVK Ambikapur visit ‘Project Annapurna’ at Parsa [KVK visits ‘Project Annapurna’ at Parsa village to make SRI value chain links]
  September 21, 2017, The Hitavada (Chhattisgarh, India)
• *Farmers claim superior mustard yields with new cultivation method [SMI allows resource-poor farmers to use less water and seeds and yet achieve significantly higher yields... so the government needs to promote it instead GM mustard]
  September 7, 2017, Live Mint (India)
• Plant identification launched Phayeng experiments with integrated farming [21 farmers in Chakpa Phayeng village planting RCM9 and practices variety with SRI in attempts to find varieties and practices that are adapted to climate change.]
  September 2, 2017, Sangai Express (Manipur, India)

August 2017

• System of root intensification increases mustard yield: Experts [SRI adaption for mustard (SMI) in Odisha, Chhattisgarh, Rajasthan, Madhya Pradesh, Bihar and Jharkhand yielded up to 57 quintals/hectare according to Alliance for Sustainable and Holistic Agriculture (ASHA).]
  August 31, 2017, India Today (New Delhi, India)
• Dealing with adversities Goa’s farmers face
  August 14, 2017, Navhind Times (Goa, India)

July 2017

• Tamil Nadu's granary losing substantial ground: delta region shrinks by 20%
  July 15, 2017, The Hindu (Tamil Nadu, India)
• Organic rice transplantation festival celebrated in Patna
  July 11, 2017, Matters India (Bihar, India)
• Flood destroys one-third of crops, kills over 3000 livestock [To counter the flood losses the administration will be taking up corrective measures like August transplantation, short duration paddy varieties and SRI.]
  July 6, 2017, E-PAO (Manipur, India)
• Gains for grains [ClimaAdapt project in India successfully incorporates SRI into interventions]
  July 4, 2017, BusinessLine (Tamil Nadu, Andhra Pradesh and Telangana, India)
• Enfants victimes des migrations [Through the work of the Swiss NGO Terre des Hommes, 1340 families improved their food production and income-generating capacity from SRI and crop diversification]
  July 3, 2017, Le Courrier (Switzerland, article re: India)

June 2017

• Experts encourage paddy farmers to take up SRI cultivation in district
  June 18, 2017, The Times of India (Andhra Pradesh, India)
• Nurturing farmers in Phek district [CWWS team conducted on-field training on SRI in Enhulumi and Lasumi villages on June 16]
  June 17, 2017, The Morung Express (Nagaland, India)

April 2017

• Art of giving [Adani Foundation introduces SRI on 4,000 acres in 42 villages empowering 2,050 farmers in Tiroda region of Maharashtra]
  April 29, 2017, AhmendabadMirror (Gujarat, India)
• The unending plight of farmers [SRI noted as one of the solutions...]
  April 26, 2017, Free Press (India)
• Why farmers are looking at drought-resistant crops
  April 11, 201, Rediff Business (Punjab, India)

March 2017

• The ignored side of the Cauvery debate [SRI is part of the solution to the water crisis]
  March 21, 2017, Your Story (Tamil Nadu, India)

February 2017

• Youths trained on sustainable farm practices at OUAT [Ag. Dept. in South Tapanuli trying Jajar legowo, SRI and hazton methods to raise yields.]
  February 1, 2017, The Pioneer (Odisha, India)

January 2017

• Award winner wants more youth to take up farming [Tamil Nadu SRI award winner urges youth to take up farming.]
  January 26, 2017, New Indian Express (Tamil Nadu, India)
• Seedlings sowed at Singur site
  January 26, 2017, The Times of India (West Bengal, India) [5 months after the Supreme Court ordered the Singur land returned to its owners, Boro seedlings, were planted with SRI on 200 acres Gopalnagar.]
• Accelerate policy and community-resilient measures [SRI noted as one of Odisha's adaption and coping mechanisms natual disasters.]
  January 16, 2017, The Pioneer (Odisha, India)

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2016

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December 2016

• Save water to get full power subsidy, farmers in UT told [Puducherry Minister of Agriculture and Power said only farmers who adopt water-conservation schemes such as SRI, drip irrigation, etc. anwould be given cent per cent power subsidy.]
  December 30, 2016, New Indian Express (Puducherry, India)
• Agricultural production increases [Area under SRI in Manipur, which began 2001-02, has increased to 40,560 ha in 2015-16.]
  December 28, 2016, The Sangai Express (Manipur, India)
• Potential Linked Credit Plan for Dharmapuri released [Dharmapuri district subsidies could be available for SRI and othe "hitech" ag practices.]
  December 23, 2016, The Hindu (Tamil Nadu, India)
  
• Aerobic transplanting technique [SRI and aerobic transplanting scaled up to 400 acres tail-end village cluster of Cauvery]
  December 5, 2016, The Hans India (Karnataka, India)

November 2016

• *For a bountiful harvest [Due to the lack of rains, Karnataka farmer changed from paddy to finger millet,using the ‘guli ragi’ method, which uses SRI principles.]
  November 1, 2016, Deccan Herald (Karnatatka, India)

October 2016

• Pulses, millets, paddy cultivation methods drawing huge crowds at Krishi Mela [SRI inevitable to conserve water.]
  October 24, 2016, The Hindu (Karnataka, India)
• 'Teach farmers to cultivate paddy economically' [Karnataka Ag. Minister Gowan suggests SRI for conserving water.]
  October 18, 2016, The Hindu (Karnataka, India)
• Krishi Mela to focus on cultivation of less water-intensive crops
  October 15, 2016, The Hindu (Karnataka, India)
• *New technique doubles ragi yield [SRI-like Guli Vidhana system for finger millet is doubling yields in Karnataka's Haveri district.]
  October 15, 2016, The TImes of India (Karnataka, India)
• *Seed Satyagraha: Chennai comes together to protest GM mustard [SCI suggested as a potential alternative.]
  October 3, 2016, The Times of India (Tamil Nadu, India)

September 2016

• Water shortage triggers paradigm shift in cultivation in delta region [Changing patterns included switch to SRI.]
  September 28, 2016, The Hindu (Tamil Nadu, India)
• Govt promotes SRI to achieve self sufficiency in food grain production [Triupura Ag. Dept. sets a target of producing 5 lakh 1,000MT with SRI]
  September 23, 2016, tripuraninfo (Tripura, India)
• ‘Cultivating cane all year unscientific’
  September 23, 2016, NOOOZ (Karnataka, India)
• TN’s kuruvai paddy is Karnataka’s bane [Shared water source between TN and Karnataka lead to SRI and aerobic rice to save water.]
  September 14, 2016, Bangalore Mirror (Karnataka and Tamil Nadu, India)
• Troubled waters [Cauvery water shortage affecting TN and Karnataka; govt. should promote SRI.]
  September 8, 2016, Business Line (Tamil Nadu/Karnataka, India)
• With kuruvai gone, farmers anxious about samba, thaladi
  September 4, 2016, The Hindu (Tamil Nadu, India)

August 2016

• Kagodu urges farmers to go in for crop diversification practices [Vice-Chancellor of UAHS, said .. it is necessary to popularise SRI as one option to deal with water shortage.]
  August 30, 2016, The Hindu (Karnataka, India)
• ‘TN’s record in foodgrain output unprecedented’ [In the last five years, 11,880 villages in Tamil Nadu were covered by SRI as a whole village concept; 27.20 lakh acres were brought SRI, which helped it produce a yield of 4,429 kg/ha; this year 3,000 more villages are covered by SRI.]
  August 20, 2016, The Hindu (Tamil Nadu, India)
• Record caFe: We’re open to private partnership for GM crop research: ICAR DG [In an interview laregely on GM, Director General of ICAR acknowledges that SRI and direct seeding can reduce methane.]
  August 18, 2016, The Financial Express (India)
• Government promoting millet cultivation in a big way [ATMA promoting System of Ragi Intensification in tribal areas.]
  August 12, 2016, The Hans India (Andhra Pradesh, India)
• ‘Focus on less water-intensive paddy cultivation practices’
  August 6, 2016, The Hindu (Karnataka, India)

July 2016

• Agriculture contributed to 18 pc of emissions in 2010: LS told [National Mission on Sustainable Agriculture launched in 2010 under National Action Plan on Climate Change (NAPCC) addresses both mitigation and adaptation to climate change through programmes such as System of Rice Intensification (SRI) against conventional rice cultivation]
  July 26, 2016, Business Standard (New Delhi, India)
• Farmers hit by brown planthopper plague
  July 21, 2016, The Hindu (Tamil Nadu, India)
• ATMA Ghathashi block conducts trainings and demonstrations
  July 9, 2016, Nagaland Post (Nagaland, India)

June 2016

• Learn nuances of technology, agri varsity VC tells farmers
  June 28, 2016, The Hindu (Tamil Nadu, India)
• Award for Nagercoil AIR station [All India Radio’s Local Station in Nagercoil had bagged ‘Outstanding commercial performance’ award from Prasar Bharati. He said that due to the persistent campaign by the AIR for System Rice Intensification (SRI), the cultivation of paddy had increased by 30 % in Kanniyakumari district, Tamil Nadu.]
  June 28, 2016, The Hindu (Tamail Nadu, India)
• Delta farmers in distress over loan waiver
  June 12, 2016, Times of india (Tamil Nadu, India)
• Delta farmers upbeat [In Thanjavur, District Collector toured paddy nurseries have been raised using the mat nursery for machine transplanting with SRI]
  June 5, 2016, The Hindu (Tamil Nadu, India)
• In water-stressed Andhra, farmers sign pact to share ground water [Borewell sharing agreements to stress SRI use for paddy.]
  June 4, 2016, Hindustan Times (Andhra Pradesh, India)
• TN govt announces Rs 54-crore package to save kuruvai crop [Rs 4,000 will be provided as 100% subsidy to those involved in mechanised cultivation using SRI]
  June 2, 2016, NYOOOZ (Tamil Nadu, India)
• Dam not to be opened on June 12, but CM floods delta with sops [Ryots in the six delta districts encouraged to use SRI to save water and increase paddy yield.
  June 2, 2016, dtNext (Tamil Nadu, India)

May 2016

• The Groundbreakers [IGSSS project in Kashmir, India, includes SRI training and cono-weeders.]
  May 31, 2016, Kashmir Life (Kashmir, India)
• Sri successfully introduced in Manipur
  May 29, 2016, The Sentinel (Manipur, India)
• Nitish flags off 38 'Krishi Raths' [Bihar CM Nitish Kumar asked Ag. Dept. to sure Kahir proudction used SRI methods.]
  May 20, Times of India (Bihar, India)
• An agro-ecological way through the sugarcane problem – before we quickly resort to GM crops
  May 12, 2016, The Wire (India)
• From plate to plough: Drop by careful drop [notes that flooding of rice fields needs to be replaced by SRI, which can save about 30 per cent water.]
  May 9, 2016, The Indian Express (India)
• Agri Dept strives for self-sufficiency [Agriculture Dept. in Mapnipur reports that SRI for paddy and zero-till for mustard have been successfully introduced in the state.]
  May 9, 2016, E-PAO (Manipur, India)

April 2016

• Assam's bowl of success [In addition to new varieties, NSFM consultant suggests SRI to combat climate change.]
  April 27, 2016, The Eastern Today (Assam, India)
• Taking the tech back to his roots
  April 25, 2016, New Indian Express (Tamil Nadu, India)
• Uddhav Bharali develops new sowing device
  April 24, 2016, Assam Tribune (Assam, India)
• Tata Steel providing access to sustainable livelihoods for SC/ST people [Tata Steel initiative over the last four years, has resulted in SRI adoption by nearly 8,000 farmers have benefitted of which more than 40 percent, of SC/ST communities.SRI has increased yields from 0.5-0.6 tons/acre in FY05 to about 2.5 tons/acre in the fiscal year 2015-16.]
  April 18, 2016, The Avenue Mail (Jharkhand, India)

March 2016

• GMR shows industry, agriculture can co-exist in Odisha [GMR Kamalanga Energy Limited (GKEL) supports SRI and other ag projects in Odisha]
  March 7, 2016, Business Today (Odisha, India)
• Imkonglemba on success story of SRI method
  March 6, 2016, Morung Express (Nagaland, India)
• Sowing the seed of hope [Woman farmer from Tiruppali wins high yield award with SRI]
  March 3, 2016, The Hindu (Tamil Nadu, India)

February 2016

• Mixed cropping, organic farming and water saving technologies help Naidu turn barren land into a green farm
  February 29, 2016, The Weekend Leader (Telangana, India)
• Young tribal woman inspires Odisha’s farming community
  February 27, 2016, India Matters (Odisha, India)
• VC SKUAST-K asks KVKs to take research to field
  February 11, 2016, Kashmir Reader (Kashmir, India)
• Nothing to beat black rice
  February 9, 2016, The Hindu BusinessLine (India)
• SRI technique adopted by this teacher-farmer yields CM award [Madurai farmer has highest paddy yield for 2014-15 using SRI.]
  February 3, 2016, The Hindu (Tamil Nadu, India)

January 2016

• Highest paddy yield bags Madurai woman Rs 5 lack prize [Madurai farmer has highest paddy yield for 2014-15 using SRI.]
  January 27, 2016, NYOOOZ (Tamil Nadu, India)
• Bihar govt to encourage zero tillage farming in Gaya district: Minister [Bihar gov. to increase not-till and SRI area due to rain deficit.]
  January 27, 2015, Times of India (Tamil Nadu, India)
• Green crusader (Story of an organic SRI farmer in Madurai)
  January 13, 2016, The Hindu (Tamil Nadu,India)
• JSPL’s Social development initiatives in Angul, Odisha [JSPL's CSR includes collaborating with NABARD on 400 acres of SRI in Angul]
  January 9, 2016, Odisha News Insight (Odisha, India)
• ASD-16 variety paddy shows good growth [16-variety SRI trials shows good success]
  January 7, 2016, The Hindu (Tamil Nadu, India)

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2015

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December 2015

• Collector shares field wisdom with farmers
  December 18, 2015, The Hindu (Tamil Nadu, India)
• Students of agri college conduct camp [Adhiprasakthi Agriculture College students study SSI and SRI]
  December 15, 2015, The Hindu (Tamil Nadu, India)
• Vedanta wins 5th Annual Greentech CSR Award [One of Vendata's Aajeevika projects (Krushak Bandhu) developed farmers’ clubs and implemented an SRI project on 100 acres with 74 farmers over past 2 years]
  December 6, 2015, OrissaDiary (Odisha, India)

November 2015

• ATMAs conduct various agricultural activities across state (ATMA Jakhama block inaugurated SRI farm school at Tora, Kezoma village.)
  November 25, 2015, Nagaland Post (Nagaland, India)
• Now, state to promote non-paddy crops [Govt. to launch special drive to enourage SRI adoption]
  November 13, 2015, OrissaNews (Odisha, India)
• Cumbum farmers record bumper paddy yield
  November 5, 2015, The Hindu (Tamil Nadu, India)
• 6,550 hectares of paddy under SRI
  November 4, 2015, The Hindu (Tamil Nadu, India)

October 2015

• Indian expertise in agriculture can help Africa [Confederation of Indian Industry (CII) showcases SRI along with other items for promotion at the Third India-Africa Forum Summit]
  October 31, 2015, The Statesman (India)
• A model to conserve indigenous paddy varieties [NGO in Pudukotti district revives 18 drought-tolerant disease-resistant traditional varieties using SRI]
  October 25, 2015, The Hindu (Tamil Nadu, India)
• National Food Security Mission for Naga farmers since 2012
  October 6, 2015, Morang Express (Nagaland, India)
• National Food Security Mission program in Kohima district [SRI has reduced labor and increased profits in Kohima district.]
  October 6, 2015, WebIndia 123 (Nagaland, India)

September 2015

• How water conservation can save money in drought-ridden India [SRI among water conservation methods for drought areas.]
  September 7, 2015, Business Standard (India)
• SRI method a boon to paddy farmers
  September 1, 2015, Hans India (Telangana, India)

August 2015

• Nestlé India implements over 260 water and sanitation projects benefitting 180,000 village students [Nestlé India project to help reduce the agricultural water withdrawal from the Kabini catchment area in Karnataka over the next 3 years to train farmers in SRI and SSI (sugarcane).]
  August 26, 2015, The Hans India (Karnataka, India)
• Crop yield contest for farmers
  August 20, 2015, The Hindu (Tamil Nadu, India)

July 2015

• Paddy to be cultivated in 7,040 hectors at Khowai
  July 29, 2015, Tripura Infoway (Tripura, India)
• Workshop on achieving self-sufficiency in food grains held at Pragna Bhawan
  July 19, 2015, Tripura Infoway (Tripura, India)
• Bihar: Jesuit college students cultivate organic rice to combat food crisis
  July 17, 2015, AsiaNews.it (Bihar, India)
• Bio slurry pellet method of rice cultivation to increase production
  July 7, 2015, The Hindu (Kerala, India)

June 2015

• 3.6 L Benefit from rural poverty elimination plan [100,000 households benefit from adoption of SRI, line sowing and seed village concept in World Bank TRIPTI program in 10 districts in Odisha, India.]
  June 29, 2015, New Indian Express (Odisha, India)
• GKEL promotes livelihood transformation activities in Mangalpur Panchayat [Power Company in Odisha promotes SRI; 60 SRI farmers last year earned Rs.2000/ extra income per acre of land]
  June 27, 2015, OdishaDiary.tv (Odisha, India)
• Nagapattinam farmers get first phase of kuruvai package [SRI to be introduced to save irrigation water]
  June 25, 2015, The Hindu (Tamil Nadu, India)
• Training on SRI held in Niuland
  June 24, 2015, Nagaland Post (Nagaland, India)
• “Follow SRI technique in ‘kar’ paddy cultivation”
  June 18, 2015, The Hindu (Tamil Nadu, India)
• Rice cultivation method shows the way [SRI methods extended to a number of other crops in India]
  June 8, 2015, The Hindu (Odisha, India)
• Rs. 41-cr. package for TN delta farmers [Delta farmers encouraged to take up mechanized transplanters with SRI.]
  June 5, 2015, The Hindu (Talangana, India)
• 160-cr compensation for storm-hit farmers [West Bengal opts to promote SRI due to erratic weather]
  June 3, 2015, The Stateman (West Bengal, India)

May 2015

• Goa's agriculture department gears for Kharif paddy season [Ag. Director expects larger harvest due to SRI expansion.]
  May 15, Times of India (Goa, India)
• Indian agriculture at cross roads: M.S. Swaminathan
  May 11, 2015, Business Standard (Chennai, India)
  
• Confronting kharif 2015 [SRI could be among the answers to an uncertain monsoon.]
  May 1, 2015, Livemint (India)

April 2015

• IIT researchers turn farmers to change agriculture
  April 22, 2015, New Indian Express (West Bengal, India)

February 2015

• B’ngir farmer honoured for record yield
  February 25, 2015, The Pioneer (Odisha, India)
• World Bank team checks progress of projects [WB check up on the Tamil Nadu Irrigated Agriculture Modernisation and Water Bodies Restoration and Management project, which has a large SRI component.]
  February 21, 2015, The Hindu (Tamil Nadu, India)
• Popularising SRI through competition [Ag.Department is organising a State-level competition to popularise SRI.]
  February 16, 2015, The Hindu (Tamil Nadu, India)
• Vedanta's pilot project in Korba increases crop yield by 41% [BALCO's SRI efforts benefitted 17 farmers by 41% yield increase in pilot in Korba district.]
  Feburary 4, 2015, Newssuperfast (Chhatishgarh, India)

January 2015

• Go organic, reap benefits [Farmer uses organic SRI methods to achieve award-winning 15+ton/ha yield in TN]
  January 30, 2015, The Hindu (Tamil Nadu, India)
• Cane price: farmers seek government intervention
  January 30, 2015, The Hindu (Tamil Nadu, India)
• Balasore to cover more area for potato farming [Village agriculture workers (VAWs) in irrigated areas of Balasore encourage farmers to use SRI]
  January 25, 2015, New Indian Express (Odisha, India)
• Sivagiri farmer bags award [Erode district farmer wins state-level crop yield competition for 2013-14 with15,325 ton/ha yield using SRI]
  January 25, 2015, The Hindu (Tamil Nadu, India)
• Paddy farmers in Erode expect bumper harvest
  January 15, 2015, The Hindu (Tamil Nadu, India)
• NABARD projects 26% rise in lending to Goa’s priority sector [NABARD initiated a special project for improving the paddy productivity through SRI.].
  January 9, 2015, The Times of India (Goa, India)
• Funds crunch hits agriculture mission [The restructured NMSA to focus more on organics and innovations like SRI that use less water.]
  January 6, 2015, The Hindu (India)
• Diversity crops, Agri Dept told [Odisha Agri Dept. instructed to diversity crops, promote line sowing via SRI and other measure.]
  January 6, 2015, New Indian Express (Odisha, India)

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2014

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December 2014

• 6,000 acres of fallow land made fertile
  December 7, 2014, The Hindu (Tamil Nadu, India)
• Smart agriculture for food security [Rita Sharma notes SRI as win-win for Climate-Smart Agriculture (CSA).]
  December 4, 2014, The Tribune (India)
• Farmer gets paddy yield of 15.8 tonnes per hectare [Farmer gets record yield in Theni District using SRI with organic and chemical inputs.]
  December 2, 2014, The Hindu (Tamil Nadu, India)

November 2014

• Demonstration on using mechanical transplanters [Mechanical transplanters with SRI can increase yield by 25% and income by Rs.15, 000/acre in Perambalur district, which has 5,000 acres of SRI out 9,200 acres total paddy production.]
  November 9, 2014, The Hindu (Tamil Nadu, India)
• Microsoft's 10-minute movie stars inspire change in Indian villages [Story on Digital Green's use of video in India and Africa]
  November 23, 2014, Bloomberg News [Re: India]
• SRI production method increases production (SRI method reportedly increased production by 200% according to NABARD)
  November 16, 2014, Times of India (Bihar, India)
• Eleven new varieties of paddy being researched in Marga [Trials use SRI methods.]
  November 11, 2014, The Times of India (Goa, India)
• A farm pond in Ayyapatti sustains paddy crop and hopes [SRI part of farm pond venture in Madurai district]
  November 9, 2014, The Hindu (Tamil Nadu, India)
• Eleven new varieties of paddy being researched in Marga [Trials use SRI methods.]
  November 11, 2014, The Times of India (Goa, India)
• A farm pond in Ayyapatti sustains paddy crop and hopes [SRI part of farm pond venture in Madurai district]
  November 9, 2014, The Hindu (Tamil Nadu, India)

October 2014

• Agro officer using WhatsApp to connect with farmers [WhatsApp, which contains SRI info, is promoted in Gurdaspur.]
  October 8, 2014, Hindustan Times (Punjab, India)
• Still parched [Haryana, Punj ab, Uttar Pradesh have 50% rainfall deficit; water conserving practices like SRI suggested]
  October 6, 2014, The Indian Express (India)
• Exploring SRI technique to boost rice production
  October 3, 2014, The New Telegraph (Nigeria)

September 2014

• Delta farmers slowly turn to SRI technique [Close to 50% (44,000 acres) of Tiruchy district delta areas are expected to use SRI for Samba this year.]
  September 24, 2014, New Indian Express (Tamil Nadu, India)
• Seeds of hope [Ag. Dept. suggests SRI to reduce water use in Cauvery Basin.]
  Sepetmber 22, 2014, New Indian Express (Tamil Nadu, India)
• New techniques needed to save water resources
  September 21, 2014, Hindustan Times (Punjab, India)
• Farm officials told to design special package to help paddy farmers [SRI and DSR suggested to deal with labor problems in Udupi, Karnataka]
  September 17, 2014, The Hindu (Karnataka, India)
• Planning Commission approves Rs. 2,400 crore for Puducherry [32% paddy increase over the previous 3 years and 10% sugarcane increase achieved through SRI and precision farming techniques.]
  September 8, 2014, The Hindu (Puducherry, India)
• R Gopalakrishnan: For a second rice revolution
  September 4, 2014, Business Standard (India)
• Rice area goes up as farmers pick up SRI method
  September 4, 2014, Business Standard (Madhya Pradesh, India)
• Encourage low-cost farming, says Minister [Minister for Youth Affairs calls for introducing farmers to low-cost farming techniques such as SRI]
  September 1, 2014, The Hindu (Kerala, India)

August 2014

• Innovative Bihar farmer makes it to South Africa, via Facebook
  August 26, 2014, Business Standard (Bihar, India)
• 60,000 acres to be brought under samba in Ariylaur [About 95 villages has been identified for developing clusters under SRI. ]
  August 24, 2014, The Hindu (Tamil Nadu, India)
• Farmer reaps fruitful yield through SRI method
  August 21, 2014, The Hindu (Tamil Nadu, India)
• New rice cultivation methodology can help crops tolerate drought: Norman Uphoff
  August 12, 2014, Live Mint & The Wall Street Journal (Punjab, India)
• 'Farmers must adopt new techniques' [ClimaRice and Climaadapt study shows SRI fields emit 20-25% less methane. Researchers have also formulated microbial technologies like cyanobacteria, methanotrophs to supplement chemical fertilizers and mitigate GHG fluxes.]
  August 9, 2014, The Times of India (Tamil Nadu, India)
• Land under paddy cultivation declines in Udupi district
  August 6, 2014, The Hindu (Karnataka, India)
• Farmers learn ways to increase productivity [Farmers learn SRI and other methods at training programme at Vivekananda Kendra Natural Resources Development Project (VK-NARDEP) in Kanyakumari.]
  August 3, 2014, The Hindu (Tamil Nadu, India)
• 8,000 acres to be under Kuruvai near Tiruchirapalli [Free implements distributed to encourage farmers to take up SRI. So far 5,800 acres have been brought under SRI, benefiting 3,050 farmers.]
  August 1, 2014, The Hindu (Tamil Nadu, India)

July 2014

• Small farmers can increase production by adopting rice intensification technique [Using SRI for the past 9 years, Gurdaspur farmers in Punjab produce 20% more paddy with 75% less seed, 30% less ground water and less pesticides.]
  July 25, 2014, Hindustan Times (Punjab, India)
• Promoting modern method of paddy cultivation [Govt. promoting SRI, DSR, and line transplanting under programmes such as “National Food Security Mission (NFSM)”, “Bringing Green Revolution to Eastern India (BGREI)” and “Rashtriya Krishi Vikas Yojana (RKVY)]
  July 22, 2014, Press Information Bureau, Minstry of Agriculture, Govt. of India
• Karnataka: Bid to promote SRI method of paddy farming [900+ families in Dakshina Kannada district have taken up the SRI]
  July 22, 2014, BusinessLine (The Hindu) (Karnataka, India)
• President Sirleaf initiates farm jobs for 100 youth [Note: Sirleaf's said youth should return to farming in a May 13 visit to CHAP.]
  July 21, 2014, Daily Observer (Liberia)
• Agri deptt. Kiphire conducts trg on SRI
  July 16, 2014, Nagaland Post (Nagaland Post, India)
• Bardez paddy farmers fear loss due to rain shortall [SRI suggested as possible solution to rainfall shortage.]
  July 9, 2014, Navhind Times (Goa, India)
• SRI method of farming demonstrated to Sangolda school students [Demo by No. Goa and Green Gold Inst and KVK No. Goa held. SRI extended to 67 farmers 5 by villages by Green Gold Inst.]
  July 8, 2014, Navhind Times (Goa, India)
• Kuruvai special package to be completed by July 10 [Govt. to give inputs for SRI in 6 TN delta districts, including Rs. 25,000/acre for raising community nurseries.]
  July 7, 2014, The Hindu (Tamil Nadu, India)
• More rice from less water
  July 7, 2014, The Hindu (Tamil Nadu, India)
• KVK Longleng conducts training on SRI & ICM
  July 6, 2014, The Morung Express (Nagaland, India) [See also similar article in Nagaland Post]
• Agriculture road map boosts output, minister says
• July 3, 2014, Times of India (Bihar, India)
• Farmers trained on SRI in Mokokchung
  July 1, 2014, Nagaland Post (Nagaland, India) [See similar article in Morung Exress]

June 2014

• SRI trg on rice cultivation in Jalukie
  June 27, 2014, Nagaland Post (Nagaland, India)
• Agricultural crops, tools distributed
  June 26, 2014, E-PAO [source: Hueiyen News Service] (Manipur, Inda)
• Demo on groundnut cultivation and SRI conducted
  June 24, 2014, Morung Express (Nagaland, India)
• National food security: Self-reliance is the key [fourth paragraph notes SRI as way for Nepal to increase yield.]
  June 23, 2014, The Himalayan (Nepal)
• Govt gears up for kharif crop, more land under SRI [Ag. Dept. in Goa trying to raise area under SRI in kharif season to 1,000 hectares in the uplands]
  June 18, 2014, Times of India (Goa, India)
• Deficient monsoon predicted, give agriculture an economic stimulus [Devinder Sharma says the "entire agricultural machinery, including agricultural universities and the state agricultural departments along with the private agribusiness companies, should have been involved in promoting the SRI]
  June 14, 2014, Hindustan Times (Punjab, India)
• DAO, ATMA conduct demon on SRI method in Kiphire
  June 11, 2014, Nagaland Post (Nagaland, India)
• Trg programmes for farmers on SRI under NFSM [Three Dept. of Ag. SRI trainings under NFSM were held in Zunheboto, Wokha, and Mokokchung in Nagaland.]
  June 10, 2014, Nagaland Post (Nagaland, India)
• Promoting SRI to ensure food security [KVK, Yisemyong, Mokokchung, conducted an SRI training under National Food Security Mission on June 7]
  June 8, 2014, Morung Express (Nagaland, India)

May 2014

• Trg on SRI in Aghunato [Training in Aghunato in the Zunheboto district, Nagaland]
  May 28, 2014, Nagaland Post (Nagaland, India)
• Distribution of seeds, tools and implements [Dept. of Agriculture, Baghty conducted a SRI training May 12-13 with seed/equipment distribution.]
  May 24, 2014, Nagaland Post (Nagaland, India)
• Farmers, experts in Gujarat root for new rice transplant method
  May 23, Business Standard (Gujarat, India)
• Indian rice farmer's miracle yield
  May 15, 2014, The Himalayan (Nepal, Re: India)
• Modified paddy cultivation method seems to hold better promise [SRI modified for use with drum seeder]
  May 7, 2014, The Hindu (India)
• Madurai ryot hits bumper harvest (Madurai farmers gets 24 tons/ha with SRI)
  May 2, 2014, The Hindu (Tamil Nadu, India)

April 2014

• Below normal monsoon in offering: What should farmers do? [Farmers advised to use SRI when India Meteorological Department (IMD) predicts below normal monsoon.]
  April 27, 2014, Merinews (India)
• System of Rice Intensification provides full rice plate at low price [61,310 farmers from all the five rice growing districts of Nagpur division adopted SRI with yield increase of about 51%.]
  April 15, 2014, Times of India (Maharashtra, India)
• A rice harvest for Nallur's farmers [SRI shows great success in Karnataka's Kolar District.]
  April 11, 2014, Deccan Herald (Karnataka, India)
• Rain Drop, pour une gestion durable des ressources en eau [Rain Drop Assn. supports SRI/SCI in India]
  April 7, 2014, Huff Post Environnement (Re: India)
• Relieving farm fatigue (Dr. Reddy's Foundation helps farmers with innovations, including SRI, across four states)
  April 6, 2014, Bangalore Mirror (Re: Maharashtra, India)
• They are beacons of hope (Devti Baiga, who helped six villages in the trail belt adopt SRI, was nominated by Indian Grameen Services, for the CII Exemplar Award in micro-finance.)
  April 2, 2014, Hindustan Times (Madhya Pradesh, India)
• 乾式種稻法 環保省水免農藥 [Article points out environmental benefits of SRI through reduced inputs]
  April 1, 2014, China News (Taiwan)

March 2014

• Over 3,100 hectares to come under summer paddy
  March 5, 2014, The Hindu (Tamil Nadu, India)
• SRI to the rescue of village hit by labour shortage [Mechanized transplanting with SRI (though the picture doesn't look like single or young seedlings)]
  March 3, 2014, The Hindu (Tamil Nadu, India)
• German to make documentary on Bihar farmer
  March 1, 2014, Business Standard (Bihar, India)

Febuary 2014

• Farmers, workers undergo training on cono weeder
  February 27, 2014, The Hindu (Tamil Nadu, India)
• Bihar scaling new heights in agriculture production: Nitish [SRI helps Bihar achieve success]
  February 25, 2014, Times of India (Bihar, India)
• Two agro-marketing hubs in state soon [Farmers urged to adopt SRI as a culture.]
  February 20, 2014, Times of India (Bihar, India)
• Deb, Debraj. 2014. Tripura awarded Krishi Karman award, Govt expects self-sufficiency in foodgrains ahead of target. TNT Magazine. February 15. [Tripura agriculture minister Aghore Debbarma said that the state has achieved commendable development in food-grain production, especially with the adoption of SRI.]
• ‘Basmati’ in drought-prone place [Farmer from Mallal panchayat, Tamil Nadu successfully grows Basmati with SRI]
  Feburary 6, 2014, The Hindu (Tamil Nadu, India)

January 2014

• Paddy farmers in Erode expect bumper harvest
  January 30, 2014, The Hindu (Tamil Nadu, India)
• Jaya honours brave cops, farmer for rice feat [Erode Farmer honored for highest SRI yield in Tamil Nadu.]
  January 27, 2014, New Indian Express (Tamil Nadu, India)
• * Odisha: Sustainable Sugarcane Initiative boon for farmers
  January 11, 2014, Odisha Diary (Odisha, India)
• Paddy farmers can now opt for SRI and get Rs 10,000 per hectare [Govt. program in Goa to give incentive for planting with SRI]
  January 20, 2014, Navhind Times (Goa, India)
• * Rice and shine [Article on SRI/SCI in Bihar noting progress on SRI, SWI and SPI]
  January 6, 2013, This week (Re: Bihar, India)
• Farmers warm to hybrid cultivation (hybrid rice promoted in conjunction with SRI)
  January 3, 2013, The Telegraph (Re: Assam, India)

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2013

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December 2013

• Seeds procurement for rabi crop transparent: Minister [Odisha Ag Minisiter dismisses Opposition Congress allegation of overpaying NGOs for SRI instruction.]
  December 10, 2013, New Indian Express (Odisha, India)
• Admnistration draws up strategy to increase rabi crop output [Odisha Deputy Director of Ag: In the wake SRI success, emphasis to be laid on cultivating paddy with SRI in rabi season too.]
  December 7, 2013, New Indian Express (Odisha, India)
• Nabard pushing for low-cost drinking water in State [Nabard will help promote SRI in Karnataka. SRI project showcased in Kundapur.]
  December 5, 2013, The Hindu (Karnataka, India)
• Farmers urged to cultivate traditional crops [Tiruvarur district farmers share info on traditional rice varieties]
  December 3, 2103, The Hindu (Tamil Nadu, India)
• Paddy scales new height on ex-MLA's farm [SRI methods used with traditional to cultivate Kattuyanam variety]
  December 2, 2013, New Indian Express (Tamil Nadu, India)

November 2013

• Helicopter glitch delays central team's Saranda visit [SHG's to get training in SRI]
  November 28, 2013, Times of India (Jharkhand, India)
• 2013. South farmers introduced to better perorming organic rice. Sikkim Now! blog. November 21. [KVK organic SRI training in South Sikkim]
• Farming is now part of CSR [Goa Institute of Management students work with ICAR and KVK on CSR projects that include SRI in Goa]
  November 4, 2013, The Hindu (Goa, India)

October 2013

• Tamil Nadu Agricultural University experiments with drip irrigation in paddy cultivation
  October 17, 2013, The Times of India (Tamil Nadu, India)
• Drought-hit Bihar unlikely to achieve record paddy target [Though drought will reduce rice yield, Bihar had 87 lakh ton in 2012-13 thanks to SRI method.]
  October 4, 2013, Daily News (NY, Re:Bihar, India)

September 2013

• Jharsuguda district: Woman reaps success
  September 30, 2013, Times of India (Odisha, India)
• Demonstration on SRI at Mon [NSFM field day at Tenang Project, Mon, Nagaland]
  September 27, 2013, Morumg Express (Nagaland, India)
• DAO Wokha conducts one-day training on IPM [SRI training in Wokha District, Nagaland]
  September 15, Morung Express (Nagaland, India)
• Goa hikes area of SRI rice cultivation this year [Dept. of Agriculture targets 1,000 ha. for SRI in Goa]
  September 9, 2013, Times of India (Goa, India)
• One day farmers training on IPM held at Tobu
  September 7, 2013, Nagaland Post (Nagaland, India)
• Rice intensification method getting popular [In TN's Krishnagiri district 688 of 762 villages have adopted SRI. Average yield of 9.2 t/ha are 50% higher than conventional.]
  September 5, 2013, The Hindu (Tamil Nadu, India)
• Awareness rally [Industries Minister leads SRI rally: SRI target for Namakkal District in Tamil Nadu is 10,200 acres.]
  September 2, 2013, The Hindu (Tamil Nadu, India)

August 2013

• Farmers harvest success from system that needs less water [SRI adopted in over 60 per cent ‘kuruvai’ paddy area in Tiruchi distict. State govt. to provide pumps and inputs and plans promotion of SRI in 84 villages.]
  August 22, 2013, The Hindu (Tamil Nadu, India)
• *SSI sweetens deal for sugarcane growers [Ag. Dept, who says SSI can double yields from 40 to 80 tons/acre, hopes to cover 1,125 acres with SSI methods together with subsidized drip irrigation in Tamil Nadu's Tiruchi district.]
  August 22, 2013, The Hindu (Tamil Nadu, India)
• Out of Africa
  August 18, 2013, Business Line (India)
• State achieves record rice output of 86 lakh tonnes
  August 14, 2013, The Times of India (Odisha, India)
• In tribal Malkangiri, women leaders take on hunger
  August 4, 2013, Kashmir Times (Re: Odisha, India)

July 2013

• Agro-farming changes lifestyles
  July 26, 2013, Times of India (Jharkhand, India)
• District receives more rain this monsoon season when compared to previous year [SRI suggested to limit resource consumption.]
  July 16, 2013, The Times of India (Tamil Nadu, India)
• Kuruvai crop on 26,000 hectares in Tiruvarur [7,318 ha of 12,134 paddy were planted with SRI so far this season in the Thiruvarur District of Tamil Nadu. Dept. of Agriculture is promoting SRI here through NSFM.]
  July 15, 2013, The Hindu (Tamil Nadu, India)
• KVK hosts demonstration program on SRI
  July 12, 2013, Echo of Arunanchal (Arunachal Pradesh, India)
• Rice cultivation machinery displayed at TNAU
  July 6, 2013, The Hindu (Tamil Nadu, India)
• Experts to learn Bihar farmers' innovative paddy growing method [Agriculture scientists from Uttar Pradesh and the Directorate of Rice Development to visit Bihar's Nalanda district to learn about SRI]
  July 2, 2013, News Track India (Bihar, India)
• Rain revives hopes of good harvest in Garhwa
  July 1, 2013, Times of India (Jharkhand, India)

June 2013

• Initiating into farming [Approximately 100 students are being trained in SRI in Saligao, Goa.]
  June 30, 3013, Navhind Times (Goa, India)
• Farmers slowly adopting SRI method for cultivation of paddy [500+ farmers across Goa have adopted SRI since 2011 with overall 30-35% yield increase.]
  June 17, 2013, Navhind Times (Goa, India)
• Demonstration on vermi-compost held
  June 16, 2013, Nagaland Post (Nagaland, India)
• Training on NSFM launched
  June 10, 2013, Morung Express (Nagaland, India)
• * Tamil Nadu Agricultural University launched Sustainable Sugarcane Initiative
  June 10, 2013, Jagran Josh (Tamil Nadu, India)
• * Crop intensification system fetches better yield, says former UAS V-C
  June 10, 2013, The New India Express (Karnataka, India)
• * Productivity of 50,000 acres of sugarcane fields to be improved: official
  June 9, 2013, The Hindu (Tamil Nadu, India)
• * TNAU unveils sustainable sugarcane initiative news
  June 8, 2013, domain-b (Tamil Nadu, India)
• * TN agri varsity launches sustainable sugarcane initiative
  June 8, 2013, Business Line (Tamil Nadu, India)

May 2013

• India returns to world rice market with a bang [Annual minimum support price for growers, sustained procurement by govt agencies, hybrid rice promotion and SRI have combined to spur production.]
  May 9, 2013, Business Line
• Haryana plan for 2013-14 finalized [Haryana State Plan recommends SRI -para. 4]
  May 6, 2013, India Press Bureau
• * Big dreams for small farmers - Systematic crop intensification rewrites agricultural production with little water [Bihar family uses SCI for wheat, paddy and other crops.]
  May 6, 2013, The Telegraph (Bihar, India)

April 2013

• * Ramnad farmer blazes new trail [First Ramanthapuram farmer with single bud chip sugarcane nursery fexplains how he is profitting from SSI methods]
  April 30, 2013, The Hindu (Tamil Nadu, India)
• He spends less to net more [National Agro Foundation (NAF) helps young farmer make ends meet with SRI]
  April 28, 2013, The Hindu (Tamil Nadu, India)
• Bihar to produce 100 lakh tonnes paddy this year [Chief Minister Nitish Kumar to launch a SRIvidhi mahaabhiyan (major campaign) April 24 to create more SRI awareness and to encourage farmers to adopt it.]
  April 23, 2013 Business Standard (Bihar, India)
  
• Emphasis on diversification of agriculture [GOI emphasizing crops/varieties requiring less water. Early maturing varieties for use in drought/moisture stress conditions for use with SRI, DSR, aerobic rice and AWD.]
  April 23, 2013, Press Information Bureau (India)
• Share experience to overcome challenges in agriculture [New farm school near Thanjavur, TN, to stress SRI and other water-saving methods]
  April 22, 2013 The Hindu (Tamil Nadu, India)
• SRI system of farming to be extended to 1,500 acres [About 250 agriculture extension workers are will reach farmers in 24 districts of Karnataka. Also, 1,000 farmers will take up SSI for sugarcane in Belgaum.]
  April 18, 2013, Deccan Herald (Karnataka, India)
• Syngenta Bets on automated rice as M&A options dwindle [Apparently SRI is providing competition for Syngenta's automated rice production?]
  April 17, 2013, Bloomberg Business Week
• ‘Farmers’ Festival’ begins in Nellai [TN Minister of Tourism recommends SRI to farmers in his address]
  April 16, 2013 The Hindu (Tamil Nadu, India)
• Adopt SRI, paddy farmers urged [SRI taken up on 84,391 hectares of land in 84 villages in Thanjavur Distict, Tamil Nadu]
  April 15, 2013, The Hindu (Tamil Nadu, India)
• Norway-funded project comes to farmers' aid [Norway-funded ClimaAdapt Project in 7 TN villages in Ponnaniar Basin includes SRI]
  April 12, 2013, The Hindu (Tamil Nadu, India)
• Some tips to enhance SRI rice yield [Some added practices from a TNAU researcher on SRI nursery and water management]
  April 10, 2013, The Hindu (Tamil Nadu, India)
• PH to import rice from Cambodia [Article attributes some of Cambodian rice success to SRI]
  April 7, 2013, mb.com.ph (Manila, Philippines)

March 2013

• VCD to help farmers raise rice production
  March 25, 2012, The Telegraph (Assam, India)
• Agriculture revolution takes shape silently [More on the controversial Bihar rice record.]
  March 22, 2013, Times of India (Bihar, India)
• Ryots give tips to one another [Drum seeder saves labor in AP]
  March 17, 2012, The Hindu (Andhra Pradesh, India)
• * Bihar can beat Punjab in wheat production [More on the controversial Bihar rice record.]
  March 10 2013, Punjab Newsline (Punjab, India)
• SSI doubles sugarcane output
  March 8, 2012, The Hindu (Tamil Nadu, India)
• Record-breaking rice yield prompts professor to promote cultivation technique
  March 6, 2013, Cornell Daily Sun (Ithaca, New York)

February 2013

• Challenge to China - Farmer invites doubting scientist to field [More on the controversial Bihar rice record.]
  February 28, 2013, The Telegraph (re: Bihar, India)
• India's rice revolution: Chinese scientist questions massive harvests [More on the controversial Bihar rice record.]
  February 23, 2013, The Guardian / Observer (Great Britain, re: India)
• Chinese whispers over rice record - Scientist questions nalanda farmer paddy yield [More on the controversial Bihar rice record.]
  February 23, The Telegraph (Re: Bihar, India)
• China rice pot and Indian kettle boil [More on the controversial Bihar rice record.]
  February 22, The Telegraph (Re: Bihar, India)
• India's rice revolution [Relates how organic SRI farmer in Bihar broke world record for rice yield]
  February 16, 2013, The Guardian / Observer (Great Britain, re: India)
• Green Revolution in South Goa's hinterlands [150 farmers increase yields 70-100% on 50 ha. in Netravali, South Goa, India.]
  February 17, 2013, The Times of India (Goa, India)
• Reaping a good harvest [Two Nagaland SRI farmers won the 2011-2012 Krishi Karman Awards and received Rs.1 lakh and a citation each for their contribution in grain production.]
  February 16, 2013, Sunday Post (Nagaland, India)
• New techniques to help ryots reap bumper crop [SRI and SSI promoted by NADP in Vellore District.]
  February 9, 2013, The Hindu (Tamil Nadu, India)
• Conventional samba variety revived yield [NABARD helps revive Chandigarh samba variety; Pudukottai District farmer uses SRI uses with it.]
  February 9, 2013, The Hindu (Tamil Nadu, India)
• Scarcity spurs water budgeting [6 districts in water security plan; water users’ assn. pres., says SRI use also reduced seed from 30-35kg to 3kg.]
  February 4, 2013, The Hindu (Tamil Nadu, India)
• Project to guide farmers sustain rice production [Phase III of 2008 "ClimaRice" project (which includes SRI) announced with TNAU implementing in Tamil Nadu and IWMI implementing in Andhra Pradesh.]
  February 2, 2013, The Hindu (Tamil Nadu, India)

January 2013

• They prove farming too is rewarding [SRI among water-saving methods suggested to farmers by CEC officials.]
  January 28, 2013, The Hindu (Tamil Nadu, India)
• Harvested results and honour through Agri department’s tips on SRI [Tamil Nadu farmer gets Krishi-Karman award for high rice yield.]
  January 28, 2013, New Indian Express (Tamil Nadu, India)
• Farmer gets award for cultivation feat [Madurai SRI farmer gets special award on Republic Day from the Agriculture Department for highest paddy yield].
  January 27, 2013, The Hindu (Tamil Nadu, India)
• New paddy growing method draws attention of farmers
  January 24, 2013, GOACOM (Goa, India) [Nuvem Charitable Trust initiates SRI In Nuvem village with the assistance of Agriculture Department.]
• Woman farmer honoured for record rice yield
  January 22, 2013, The Hindu (Tamil Nadu, India)
• Not crop diversification, Punjab needs to diversify from existing intensive farming system. Ground Reality blog. Sharma, Devinder. 2013.January 19. [Sharma asked Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar how he intends to ensure his state does not end up mining groundwater like Punjab. His answer: “I am aggressively promoting SRI .. which reduces water consumption by 50 to 60 per cent.” Amrik Singh's comment to the post about SRI success in Punjab is also interesting.]
• Farmers with record output in frantic search for market - Govt reels off agro-data but lack of buyers sets off alarm
  January 18, 2012, The Telegraph (Bihar, India) [High agriculture yields in Bihar need to find markets.]
• President gives Krishi Karman award to Bihar [President Pranab Mukherjee presented Krishi Karman award to Bihar for paddy production.]
  January, 16, 2013, Times of India (Bihar, India)
• Nalanda farmers inspiration for others: Nobel laureate [Joseph Stiglitz visits record-yielding SRI and SCI fields in Nalanda, Bihar]
  January 13, 2013, Times of India (Bihar, India) [Similar article, Jan. 12, in Calcutta Telegraph]
• Farmers training programme organised [ATMA programme includes 50% subsidy for SRI farmers purchasing conoweeders and knapsack sprayers.]
  January 11, 2013, E-PAO [Source: Sangai Express] (Manipur, India)
• Self-sufficiency in rice output still eludes Mizoram [SRI credited with increasing Mizoram’s rice production 51,948 t/ha 2011-12 from 47,201 t/ha in 20102011, surpassed 52,000 MT target.]
  January 5, 2013, Seven Sisters Post (Mizoram, India)
• New improvised tool for SRI paddy planting method [An iron roller marker can replace ropes used for marking where to transplant.]
  January 3, 2013, The Hindu (Tamil Nadu, India)

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2012

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December 2012

• Tuticorin focuses on SRI method [District can achieve 4.5 tons and reduce water use with SRI]
  December 15, 2012, The Hindu (Tamil Nadu, India)
• Cultivate alternative crops, West Godavari Collector tells farmers [Ag. Joint Director says, in West Godavari district, AP, paddy farmers should us SRI, mechanization and drum seeders to save water and electricity.]
  December 13, 2012, The Hans India (Andhra Pradesh, India)
• Farmers encouraged to go in for short duration crop [Ag. Dept suggests SRI and short duration crops. 37,500 ha. already under SRI in Pudukottai District.]
  December 10, 2012, The Hindu (Tamil Nadu, India)
• Paddy farmers a confused lot [Ag. Dept suggests SRI in light of poor monsoon and insufficient irrigation water; also providing subsidized power weeders.]
  December 9, 2012, The Hindu (Tamil Nadu, India)
• Use drum seeder to cut costs, scientists tell paddy farmers [Drum seeders suggested for farmers with small landholdings.]
  December 5, 2012, The Hindu (Karnataka, India)
• System of Root Intensification method now inspiring farmers abroad: Nalanda DM [Nalanda farmers increase return on investments: 35-40% growth in paddy production with SRI]
  December, 3, 2012, Times of India (Bihar, India)

November 2012

• New hope for Goan farmers [With substantial reduction production costs and double or triple yield, most Goan farmers are expected to adopt SRI.]
  November 30, 2012, Navhind Times (Goa, India)
• SRI technology may be a boon for farmers growing paddy in Punjab [Six years of experiments in Gurdaspur district by ATMA and Dept of Agriculture have indicated the superiority of SRI practices over the traditional methods]
  November 30, 2012, The Indian Express (Punjab, India)
• Seminar at Bhironda on SRI rice cultivation [Yields of 8.5t/ha-11.5t/ha recorded in trials byKVK and Dept. of Agriculture.]
  November 30, 2012, Times of India (Goa, India)
• SRI system revives popularity of paddy cultivation [Farmer cites increased earnings and reduced seed, water, pests problems- especially rats; however, need more timely access to weeders and markers.]
  November 28, 2012, The Hindu (Tamil Nadu, India)
• SRI comes in handy to tide over labour crisis
  November 26, 2012, The Hindu (Tamil Nadu, India) [Scant irrigation leads farmers to SRI; power weeders found helpful.]
• SRI technique gaining popularity [R.S. Mangalam block in Ramanathapuram District plants 900 ha.]
  November 25, 2012, The Hindu (Tamil Nadu, India)
• Small farmers happy with SRI method [Adarsa / SDTT mobilized 2,043 farmers in 143 villages in all 9 blocks Tikrapada District to adopt SRI on 1,723 acres. Agriculture Dept. also introduced SRI on 50 ha in each panchayat with support of Rs 1,250 per ha.]
  November 24, 2012, New Indian Express (Odisha, India)
• Push for scientific farming [Target is to conduct at least 60 village-level programs with SRI in Nagaon district.]
  November 15, 2012, Yahoo News India (Assam, India)
• ICAR to distribute pre Kharif seed [ICAR to give RC Maniphou-12 seed to farmers to multiply on 70 hectares]
  November 14, 2012, KanglaOnline (Source: Imphal Free Press) (Manipur, India)
• Farmers told to go in for SRI method, short-duration crops
  November 13, 2012, The Hindu (Tamil Nadu, India)
• SRI paddy cultivation to be taken up in 8,000 hectares in Karur [34 villages have been declared as SRI villages in the district]
  November 9, 2012, The Hindu (Tamil Nadu, India)

October 2012

• How can we build a sustainable farming system for all? [SRI in India primary "example on the ground".]
  October 24, 2012, The Sustainable Business Blog (The Guardian) (United Kingdom)
• They stoop to conquer [Story about women, organic ag, and SRI in Koraput, Odisa]
  October 21, 2012, The Hindu (Odisha, India)
• Rich harvest due to adoption of System of Rice Intensification method [Ag. Dept. says rabi yields doubled with SRI in Guirim and Moira villages in Goa; input cost reduced by 25-35%; 110 SRI demos (10 per zone) covering 1000 hectares to be added.]
  October 21, 2012, Navhind Times (Goa, India)
• The battle for water - India's food insecurity compounded by water scarcity
  October 16, 2012, AlertNet (India)
• Choose short duration crops and adopt SRI technique, farmers told [Short duration variety and SRI recommended by Agriculture Dept.]
  October 17, 2012, The Hindu (Tamil Nadu, India)
• This tiller uses less water [Farmers should adopt short duration crops and SRI]
  October 4, 2012, DNA (Tamil Nadu, India)
• 84 villages go in for SRI method [in Thanjavur district for this samba season]
  October 3, 2012, The Hindu (Tamil Nadu, India)

September 2012

• SRI method changing the fortune of farmers in Bihar
  September 30, Poly Eyes (Bihar, India)
• Can President Mukherjee redress this farmer's grievance? [World record holder for highest paddy yield awaits certification]
  September 29, Down to Earth (Bihar, India)
• Organic SRI motivates seed production by small farmer
  September 20, 2012, The Hindu (Tamil Nadu, India)
• * SSI Technology to remove sugarcane yield barriers [TNAU training on SSI, which could yield 250 tons/ha and have water savings of 40%]
  September 7, 2012, The Hindu (Tamil Nadu, India)
• Award for farmer with highest yield [Cash awards for high crop yields includes Rs 5,00,000 for farmer with highest SRI yield.]
  September 7, 2012, Indian Express (Tamil Nadu, India)

August 2012

• Incessant rains will have no adverse effect on agriculture, says Tendulkar [Director of Ag in Goa hopeful about SRI]
  August 28, 2012, Navhind Times (Goa, India)
• School drop-out helps preserve traditional paddy seeds [Article notes all seeds can be used with SRI]
  August 16, 2012, The Hindu (Tamil Nadu, India)
• Power weeder, a boon to Tirunelveli farmers
  August 13, 2012, The Hindu (Tamil Nadu, India)
• Mechanised System of Rice Intensification launched
  August 10, 2012, The Hindu (Andhra Pradesh, India)
• Transforming rice production with SRI (System of Rice Intensification) knowledge and practice: Reducing agriculture foot print and ensuring food security: A book by T M Thiyagarajan and Biksham Gujja
  August 1, 2012, India Waterportal (India)

July 2012

• Six organic farming groups in Ganjam get a fillip [Six organic groups certified under Participatory Guarantee Scheme (PGS)]
  July 25, 2012, The Hindu (Odisha, India)
• Laser leveller for minimising water [improves results with SRI when water is reduced]]
  July 25, 2012, The Hindu (Tamil Nadu, India)
• Farmers asked to switch over to SRI cultivation
  July 25, 2012, The Hindu (Andhra Pradesh, India)
• Rice Intensification training held at Kohima
  July 23, 2012, Echo of Arunachal (Nagaland, India)
• Paddy plantation begins in rain-fed Gumla district
  July 22, 2012, Times of India (Bihar, India)
• System of rice intensification technique to kickstart with fields in Quepem [10ha target for SRI in Quepem taluka]
  July 17, 2012, The Times of India (Goa, India)
• Mizoram introduces System of Rice Intensification [Similar articles in Morurng Express, July 13, and The Northeast Today, July 14]
  July 14, 2012, Mizoram News (Mizoram, India)
• System of Rice Intensification Hmanga buh chin
  July 13, 2012, Directorate of Information & Public Relation - Govt. of Mizoram (Mizoram, India)
• Ryots to be provided 50 p.c. subsidy on drum seeders
  July 8, 2012, The Hindu (Andhra Pradesh, India)
• Rice intensification method to be tried in Canacona [Already tried in Sanguem, Mapusa and Valpoi]
  July 1, 2012, Navhind Times (Goa, India)

June 2012

• Electrosteel organizes SRI workshop with 40 farmers in Siyaljiri Bokaro District
  June 29, 2012, Indiacsr (India)
• Growing rice faster by system rice intensification method is here [KVK agronomists and Pilar Soceity priests in Bhironda try SRI]
  June 29, 2012, Times of India (Goa, India)
• SRI method of paddy sowing may be answer to depleting groundwater
  June 29, 2012, The Indian Express (Punjab, India)
• Prospect of drought triggers panic among Nawada farmers
  June 29, 2012, Times of India (Bihar, India)
• Goa to promote System of Rice Intensification this monsoon
  June 27, 2012, Times of India (Goa, India)
• 626 villages in Vizag district take up organic farming [SRI promoted under CSMA project]
  June 26, 2012, The Hindu, (Andhra Pradesh, India)
• Making farming organic [12th para: SRI promoted under CMSA]
  June 25, 2012, The Hindu (India)
• Goa turns to Tamil Nadu for lessons in farming
  June 21, 2012, Navhind Times (Goa, India)
• Go hybrid this Kuruvai: TNAU [Farmers should use hybrid rice CORH 3, which is compatibe with SRI]
  June 21, 2012, The Hindu (Tamil Nadu, India)
• Farmers burn own paddy after low yield - Peasants blame new mode of cultivation
  June 15, 2012, The Telegraph (West Bengal, India)
• Symposium on system of rice intensification held [3rd State Level Symposium on SRI held June 12, 2012]
  June 12, 2012, Imphal Free Press (Manipur, India)
  [See related article in E-PAO - 'Local rice production, a profitable business' [Source: Hueiyen News Service]
• Freeze paddy support [Last para: Public money for paying higher MSP on paddy can well be spent in promoting water-saving SRI or direct-seeding technologies.]
  June 7, 2012, Business Line (India)
• System of Rice Intensification
  June 1, 2012, Jammu Kashmir Newspoint (Jammu Kashmir, India)

May 2012

• High yield pushes up area under irrigated pulses [5th para. refers to System of Pulse Intensification]
  May 12, 2012, The Hindu (Tamil Nadu, India)
• Government unsure of farm work in NREGA [Decision to allow farmers to emply NREGA workers for SRI reversed]
  May 9, 2012, Hindustan Times (New Delhi, India)
• Nanjai Kalikurichi villagers voluntarily switch to SRI method
  May 5, 2012, The Hindu (Tamil Nadu, India)

April, 2012

• Follow scientific ways for better yield: Expert [Farmers in Balangir district advised to use SRI during seed treatment campaign]
  April 25, 2012, The Pioneer (Orissa, India)
• Farm mechanisation, organic farming making headway [Organic farming, mechanization, nutritional security and SRI successful in 2011-12 despite the monsoon failure in Visakhapatnam, AP]
  April 24, 2012, The Hindu (Andhra Pradesh, India)
• TN sets higher farm output target output
  April 19, 2012, Business Line (Tamil Nadu,India)
• TN sets higher farm output target output
  April 19, 2012, Business Line (Tamil Nadu,India)
• Bihar's Srividhi campaign arouses interest in other states
  April 16, 2012, Newstrack India (Bihar, India)
  --Similar article in Bihar Prabha
• Vikram Akula back in biz; to pump money in agri firm [Social entrepreneur joins AgSri as director]
  April 15, 2012, Business Line (Andhra Pradesh, India)
  (see related April 12 FirstPost Business article: The return of The return of Vikram Akula, this time as sugarcane messiah)
  
• Project to double crop yield [Chief minister Nitish Kumar campaign to double foodgrain output and create agriculture roadmap in the state.]
  April 14, 2012, The Telegraph (Bihar, India)
• Nitish acolytes fancy him as Prime Minister [see article above]
  April 14, 2012, The Times of India (Bihar, India)
• Bihar farmer sets organic wheat production record [uses SRI methods to get 135.75 quintals/ha]
  April 12, 2012, Newstrack India (Bihar, India)
• Diglipur farmer gets lucky with double paddy cropping
  April 9, 2012, Andaman Sheekha (Andaman and Nicobar Islands Territory, India)
• Popularise SRI mode: Ponnala [IT minister suggests ag department promote SRI for water-saving]
  April 9, 2012, Deccan Herald (India)
• Develop hybrid rice to meet local demand: ICAR [AP govt. to support SRI on 5 lakh haas opposed to 1.13 lakh ha last year]
  April 8, 2012, Business Line (Andhra Pradesh, India)
• SKDRDP touches new heights in door step banking [SKDRDP helps SHG's with loans; NABARD helps 29,108 farmers SRI farmers on 38,379 acres]
  April 2, 2102, Microfinance Focus (Karnataka, India)
• Only 2 per cent ryots benefit under MGNREGA [MGNREGA laborers to be allocated only for the SRI]
  April 1, 2012, The Hindu (Andhra Pradesh, India)
• Nitish home district clocks world record in potato yield
  April 1, 2012, Deccan Herald (Bihar, India)

March 2012

• On their feet, and happily too [SHG helps woman find success with SRI, para. 14-16]
  March 31, 2012, Deccan Herald (Orissa, India)
• Kokrajhar for more farming areas
  March 31, 2012, Seven Sisters Post (Assam, India)
• Paddy yield doubled in district this season
  March 29, 2012, The Hindu (Tamil Nadu, India)
• One village, two farming world records
  March 29, 2012, The Indian Express (Bihar, India)
• 'Pradan' revives agriculture in poor villages in India{para. 10-11, women adopt SRI with SHG help]
  March 28, 2012, News Blaze (Orissa, India)
• Three Indian programs shaping crop protection [Last sentence about MGNREGS, the 8 billion dollar social security program, being allowed to include SRI as work]
  March 27, 2012, Farm Chemicals International (India)
• Agriculture gets highest ever allocation [While the budget provides 500 crore for SRI for an extended area of 27.55 lakh acres, labor could be problem]
  March 27, 2012, Times of India (Tamil Nadu, India)
• SRI promoted under National Food Security Mission [National Food Security Mission – Rice, which is being implemented in 144 districts of 16 States, promotes SRI demonstrations - 0.4 ha and Rs.3000/- per demonstration.]
  March 27, 2012, Press Information Bureau, Govt. of India
• A bonanza for farm sector [Tamil Nadu's SRI scheme, which covered about 25 lakh acres in 2011-12, will be extended to 27.55 lakh acres in 2012-13]
  March 27, 2012, The Hindu (Tamil Nadu, India)
• Paddy production: Bihar panchayat breaks China's record [Parliament informed the Bihar farmer surpassed China paddy yield record]
  March 22, Business Line (New Delhi, India - re: Bihar)
• Bihar's Nalanda district beats China's paddy production record news
  March 20, 2012, domain-b (Bihar, India)
• Press Release: Water options for India in a changing climate
  March 21, 2012, Intercultural Resources (Delhi, India)
• Farmers adopt new cultivation technique [NABARD/Gramabhyudaya projects promotes SRI with weeders, markers in 32 AP villages]
  March 9, 2012, The Hindu (Andhra Pradesh, India)
• Women to be trained in agro-business [women farmers to be trained in agro-business enterprises. para. 3]
  March 9, 2012, The Hindu (Tamil Nadu, India)
• Self-help solves irrigation problem - A Sivasagar village takes up tools to resist erosion, Baksa & Nalbari get aid for farming [9th para.]
  March 5, 2012, The Telegraph (Assam, India)
• SKDRDP to popularise SRI method of paddy cultivation
• March 4, The Hindu (Karnataka, India)

February 2012

• Grain of gain in rebel den, 4 districts on radar - Innovative rice farming ensures food security in West Singhbhum
  Feb. 29, 2012, The Telegraph (Jharkhand, India)
• Rural champions of change [see 10th paragraph: Women marchers want SRI info]
  Feb. 28, 2012, The Hindu (Madhya Pradesh, India)
• States' grants tied to wage payment
  Feb. 23, 2012, Business Standard (New Delhi, India)
• Expanded National Rural Employment Guarantee Act to arrest fall in appeal
  Feb. 23, 2012, The Economic Times (New Delhi, India)
• NREGA 2 aimed at bolstering UPA 2
  Feb. 22, 2012, Hindustan Times (New Delhi, India)
• Paddy harvest in full swing in many areas
  Feb. 22, 2012, The Hindu (Tamil Nadu, India)
• IRRI team visits Nalanda to study SRI method
  Feb. 15, 2012, Times of India (Bihar, India)
• PM’s Speech at the Workshop on Agriculture at Rashtrapati Bhavan [SRI reference is in 14th paragraph]
  Feb. 15, 2012, Press Information Bureau, Govt. of India
• Scientific methods spell boom for farmers [Farmers in Bihar benefiting from both SRI and SWI]
  Feb. 5, 2012, The Telegraph (Bihar, India)
• Farmers felicitated for bumper paddy harvest
  Feb. 4, 2012, Times of India (Jharkhand, India)
• Eastern UP gets 50% more than state’s original Green Revolution allocation [..and SRI is part of additional sustainability focus]
  March 25, 2012, IndiaSpend (UP, India)

January 2012

• Farmers reap rewards of SRI cultivation
  January 31, 2012, The Hindu (Kerala, India)
• After paddy feat, a Nalanda village looks at potato
  January 27, 2012, Indian Express (Bihar, India) [SRI record rice yields inspire potato and wheat farmers]
• Officers instructed to support farmers for doubling the yield
  January 26, 2012, The Hindu (Tamil Nadu, India)
• Odisha fights back with new agricultural practices to counter food insecurity
  January 26, 2012, News Blaze (Orissa, India)
• Knowledge on climate change essential for effective farming
  January 25, 2012, Times of India (Tamil Nadu, India)
• Farmers in Mulanthuruthy reap a rich harvest
  January 21, 2012, The Hindu (Kerala, India)
• SRI competition: appeal to farmers
  January 14, 2012, The Hindu (Tamil Nadu, India)
• Scientists asked to come out with high-yielding rice varieties
  January 11, 2012, The Hindu (Tamil Nadu, India) [Indian Ag Minister cites SRI prize in 6th paragraph]
• Grassroots heroes lead Bihar's rural revolution
  January 10, 2012, India Today (Bihar, India)
• CM aims agri-budget, high output
  January 6, 2012, The Telegraph (Jharkhand, India)
• NABARD to assess success of new paddy growing technique
  January 5, 2012, The Pioneer (Jharkhand, India)

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2011

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December 2011

• Kailash Rana Manger from Sikkim recognized as "rice innovator"
  December 28, Sikkim Times (Sikkim, India)
• SRI paddy cultivation finds many takers in Ernakulam
  December 27, The Hindu (Kerala, India)
• TNAU welcomes award for best use of SRI technology
  December 26, The Hindu (Tamil Nadu, India)
• Aditi Phadnis: From Bimaru to booming?
  December 24, Business Standard (Bihar, India) [SRI mention in 5th paragraph relates to Nov. 28 article in The Pioneer]
• Government announces award for rice yield
  December 22, IBN Live (Tamil Nadu, India)
• New rice cultivation system boon for farmers
  December 7, Times of India (Bihar, India)
• Increasing rice productivity
  December 6, The Hindu (Karnataka, India)
• A girl abandoned by parents in a 'home' grows up to become an MLA in Bihar
  December 6, The Weekend Leader (Bihar, India)
• Bumper paddy brings cheers to farmers
  December 4, Times of India (Jharkhand, India)
• Land to be provided for PHC in Thottiyam
  December 1, The Hindu (Tamil Nadu, India)

November 2011

• SRI project
  November 30, 2011, Times of India (Bihar, India)
• Organic rice cultivation transforming lives of Damoh farmers
  November 28, 2011, The Hindu (India)
• Bihar farmer beats world in paddy cultivation
  November 27, 2011, The Pioneer (Bihar, India)
• District to popularise SRI
  November 25, 2011, Moneycontrol.com (Tamil Nadu, India)
• SRI method yields rich dividends
  November 15, 2011, Deccan Herald (Karnataka, India)
• Seed replacement rate for paddy rise farmhands decrease
  November 14, 2011, Business Line (Mumbai, India)
• Farmers briefed on rice intensification
  November 13, 2011, The Hindu (Tamil Nadu, India)
• Manipur rice at par with Japanese in taste
  November 13, 2011, The Assam Tribune (Manipur, India) [SRI reference in 7th paragraph]
  [A similar article was published in Nov. 11 in E-PAO]
• New farm tech doubles Mizoram rice produce
  November 12, 2011, The Shillong Times (Mizoram, India)
  [article also in Echo of Arunachal and AllVoices]
• SRI training raises hope for bumper harvest
  November 11, 2011. The Hindu (Tamil Nadu, India)
• Theni farmers reaping benefits of SRI technique
  November 5, 2011, The Hindu (Tamil Nadu, India)
• 56,000 hectares under samba paddy in Pudukottai this year
  November 5, 2011, The Hindu (Tamil Nadu, India)

October 2011

• Farmers take to SRI in dry regions
  October 15, 2011, Deccan Herald (Karnataka, India)
• Church encourages natural farming
  October 3, 2011, UCA News (Chhattisgarh, India)
• Training on SRI - October 2, 2011
  The Hindu (Tamil Nadu, India)

September 2011

• India develops less water consuming varieties of rice, wheat
  September 16, 2011, The Economic Times (New Delhi, India)
• TN farm varsity introduces flood-resistant rice
  September 15, 2011, BusinessLine (Tamil Nadu, India)
• Lightweight machine weeds out paddy farmers' woes
  September 15, 2011, The Hindu (Tamil Nadu, India)
• Innovative Andhra Pradesh farmers grow rice under adverse conditions
  September 9, 2011, Syed Akbar Journalist (Andhra Pradesh, India)

August 2011

• Tamil Nadu Agri output to rise 31%
  August 17, 2011, Business Standard (Tamil Nadu, India) [see similar articles on August 5]
  
• Farm mechanisation for 10 lakh acres in three years: Government
  August 13, 2011, The Hindu (Andhra Pradesh, India)
• Cash rewards for farmers
  August 7, 2011, Times of India (Jharkhand, India)
• Spinning a push for Bt cotton
  August 5, 2011, IBN Live (Tamil Nadu, India) (related article: State to "spare no efforts" in transforming agriculture, The Hindu)
• Kuruvai paddy coverage touches all time high in district in last 10 years
  August 4, 2011, The Hindu (Tamil Nadu, India)
• TN going all out to help farmers
  August 4, 2011, News Today (Tamil Nadu, India)
• Depletion in ground water
  August 4, 2011, Press Information Bureau, Govt. of India] (9th point recognizes SRI as a methodology for addressing ground water depletion)
• Areas under paddy, sunflower, chillies hit in AP
  August 1, 2011, Business Line (Andhra Pracesh, India)

July 2011

• Power-operated konoweeders sought
  July 31 , 2011, The Hindu (Tamil Nadu, India)
• KVK training on low cost water harvesting
  July 26, 2011, Nagaland Post ( Assam, India)
• Demonstration on use of bio-fertilizers conducted
  July 21, 2011, The Morung Express (Nagaland, India)
• Tamil Nadu plan outlay raised to Rs.23,535 crore
  July 6, 2011, NewKerala.com (Tamil Nadu, India)
• Winnowing machines to expedite post-harvest work
  July 2, 2011, IBN live (Tamil Nadu, India)

June 2011

• Popularising SRI
  June 29, 2011, India Together (Bihar, India)
• Farmers cry for quality seed
  June 19, 2011, The Times of India (Jharkhand, India)
• Foodgrains target set at 115 lakh tonnes for this year
  June 19, 2011, The Hindu (Tamil Nadu, India)
• Seminar on paddy cultivation
  June 18, 2011, The Hindu (Tamil Nadu, India)
• Farmers register high paddy yield
  June 16, 2011, The Hindu (Tamil Nadu, India)
• Jayalalithaa seeks central aid to reduce debt... [SRI reference in 10th paragraph] June 16, 2011, Business Standard (Tamil Nadu, India)
• Intensive rice cultivation seen solution to labour shortage
  June 15, 2011, The Hindu (Andrha Pradesh, India)
• Dhanbad farmers lead rice revolution - New paddy cultivation method will double productivity, say scientists
  June 10, 2011, The Telegraph (Jharkhand, India)

May 2011

• Plan to bring 80% of kuruvai area under SRI
  June 6, 2010, The Hindu (Tamil Nadu, India)
• Plan to bring additional 1,000 hectares under kuruvai
  May 24, 2011, The Hindu (Tamil Nadu, India)
• Scientific push to Nitish’s agro dream - Farmers to yield more with new method of rice cultivation
  May 23, The Telegraph (Bihar, India)
• Awards haul for reel duo
  May 20, 2011, The Telegraph (Jharkhand, India)
• Grant for SRI Promotion
  May 20, 2011, The Hindu (Andhra Pradesh, India) [see related Sify.com article]
• Winning docus adopt rural social causes
  May 20, 2011, Times of India (Jharkhand, India
• SRI method
  May 14, 2011, E-PAO [source: Sangai Express] (Manipur, India)
• Bumper paddy production in Kokila village
  May 4, 2011, The Assam Tribune (Assam, India)
• A rich harvest for Nallur's farmers
  May 3, 2011, Deccan Herald (Karnataka, India).

April 2011

• NABARD for Integrated Dev
  April 30, 2011, Morung Express (Nagaland, India)
• Symposium on SRI method
  April 30, 2011, E-PAO. (Manipur, India) [source: Hueiyen News Service]
• Area sown under cotton, paddy fall short of target in Tirupur
  April 28, 2011, The Hindu (Tamil Nadu, India)
• SRI symposium
  April 26, 2011, E-PAO (Manipur, India) [source: Sangai Express]
• ‘Madagascar’ method retains the ‘organic’ prove Bilaspur farmers
  April 20, 2011, Thaindian News (Bangkok-based article about Chhatisgharh, India)
• Nabard raises credit support
  April 11, The Telegraph (Assam, India)
• SRI helps enhance rice productivity
  April 11, 2011, Financial Express (New Delhi, India)
• Cash rewards for farmers
  April 9, 2011, E-PAO, (Manipur, India) [Source: The Sangai Express]
• Surinder Sud: A new lease of rice
  April 5, 2011, Business Standard (Kerala, India)

March 2011

• SRI samman for 35 farmers
  March 30, 2011, The Hindu (Orissa, India) [photos included in simlilar Koraput Online article]
• Adaptation to climate change critical for food security
  March 28, 2011, The Financial Express (India)
• Aalo hosts farmer-scientists’ meet
  March 26, 2011, Echo of Arunachal (Arunachal Pradesh, India)
• Farmers go on exposure trip
  March 25, 2011, E-PAO (Manipur, India) [source: Sangai Express]
• Adopt SRI method of paddy cultivation, farmers told
  March 24, 2011, The Hindu (Andhra Pradesh, India)
• Rice intensification system will enhance livelihood of marginal farmers
  March 12, 2011, The Pioneer (Orissa, India)
• Another Green Revolution
  March 10, 2011, Express Buzz (India)
• State-level symposium on SRI organised in Bhubaneswar
  March 9, 2011, Merrinews (India)
• Plan mulls rice intensification method
  March 7, 2011, The Hindu Business Line (Tamil Nadu, India)
• New tech could boost rice output by 5 million tonne
  March 7, 2011, The Financial Express (India)
• TN agri plan could be adopted in other states: Kasturirangan
  March 6, 2011, The Times of India (Tamil Nadu, India)
• 'TN agri schemes could help meet growth target'
  March 5, 2011, The Hindu Business Line (Tamil Nadu, India)
• TNAU proposal for free cellphones to benefit farmers
  March 2, 2011, The Hindu (Tamil Nadu, India)

February 2011

• TNAU proposal for free cellphones to benefit farmers
  March 2, 2011, The Hindu (Tamil Nadu, India)
• Adopt modern cultivation technologies to get maximum profit, farmers told
  Feb. 24, 2010, The Hindu (Tamil Nadu, India) [note: SRI is called "Rajarajaran 1000" in Tamil Nadu] (see also News Flash Today article)
• Agriculture sector key to Bihar's progress
  Feb. 17, 2011, India Today (Bihar, India)
• Reduction in paddy coverage area in Tirupur causing concern
  Feb. 14, 2011, The Hindu (Tamil Nadu, India)
• Rajarajan 1000 technique doubles paddy yield
  Feb. 6, 2011, The Hindu (Tamil Nadu, India)
• Rajarajan 1000 method great success in TN: Madurai Collector
  Feb. 6, 2011, oneindia news (Tamil Nadu, India)
• Khulu visits NABARD funded project
  Feb. 3, 2011, Nagaland Post (Nagaland, India)
• Farmers seeks sops for SRI cultivation
  Feb. 2, 2011, Express Buzz (Orissa, India)

January 2011

• Dalit MLA is Bihar CM's 'rice' choice
  January 31, 2011, India Today (Bihar, India)
• ‘Rajarajan 1000' well suited for late samba crops
  January 20, 2011, The Hindu (Tamil Nadu, India) [SRI is called 'Rajarajaran 1000' in Tamil Nadu]
• WB-funded irrigation project emphasises on effective use of water for farming
  January 13, 2011, The Times of India (Tamil Nadu, India)
• Rs. 1,731.53 crore PLC planned for Thanjavur
  January 5, 2011, The Hindu (Tamil Nadu, India)

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2010

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December 2010

• Paddy sapling planting equipment introduced
  December 8, 2010, The Hindu (Tamil Nadu, India)
• Cultivable area of paddy is all set to expand in Madurai district
  December 5, 2010, The Hindu (Tamil Nadu, India)
• She has become villagers' envy
  December 3, 2010, Deccan Herald (Andhra Pradesh, India)
• Krishi Utsav Rath flagged off
  December 2, 2010, Times of India (Bihar, India) - reference to SWI
• Thanks giving the icing on SRI success
  December 1, 2010, E-PAO (Manipur, India) [source: Sangai Express]
  
  

November 2010

• Field day on SRI conducted in Mokokchung
  November 29, 2010, Nagaland Post (Nagaland, India)
• Course on leadership to be included in UG curriculum
  November 24, 2010, The Hindu (Tamil Nadu, India)
• Science support for Nagaon farmers - Colour leaf chart, mechanised cultivation, training sessions for better returns
  November 24, 2010, The Telegraph (Kolkata, India)
• Farmers' training
  November 23, 2010, KanglaOnline (Manipur, India)
• NABARD promoting intensified rice production
  November 16, 2010, Central Chronicle (Madhya Pradesh,India)

October 2010

• A bountiful harvest for Sukku
  October 25, 2010, UK in India (Madhya Pradesh, India)
• Minister urges farmers to increase yield
  October 26, 2010, IBNLive (Tamil Nadu, India)
• 62,500 hectares to be brought under samba
  October 22, 2010, The Hindu (Tamil Nadu, India)
• Rally highlights rice cultivation
  October 13, 2010, The Hindu (Tamil Nadu, India)
• Working on Work
  October 11, 2010, The Hindu (Jharkhand, India)
  (reference to SRI in 3rd paragraph)
• Chief Minister inspects samba cultivation in Tiruvarur
  October 11, 2010, The Hindu (Tamil Nadu, India)
• An organic approach to increase rice yield in Bhutan
  October 6, 2010, Bhutan Observer (Bhutan)
• SRI method renamed as "Rajarajan 1000"
  October 6, 2010, The Hindu (Tamil Nadu, India)
  
  

September 2010

• Training in template technology
  September 22, 2010, The Hindu (Tamil Nadu, India)
• Rs. 13.17-crore assistance distributed
  September 17, 2010, The Hindu (Tamil Nadu, India)
• National Conference on Rabi Campaign 2010 begins tomorrow Best Performing States to Receive Trophies
  September 16, 2010, Press Information Bureau (India)
• 460 weeders to be distributed free of cost in Tirupur
  September 15, 2010, The Hindu (Tamil Nadu, India)
• Collector's plea to farmers
  Sept. 10, 2010, The Hindu (Tamil Nadu, India)
• Woman farmer lauded for high paddy yield
  September 9, 2010, The Hindu (Tamil Nadu, India)
• Parched farmers pray for rain - Continuing dry spell affects alternative crop farming
  September 7, 2010, The Telegraph (Jharkhand, India)
• Samba cultivation begins in Erode
  September 3, 2010, The Hindu (Tamil Nadu, India)
• Heavy rains in Andhra Pradesh boost rice crop prospects
  September 1, 2010, Sulekha.com (Andhra Pradesh, India)
  
  

August 2010

• Promote SRI paddy: Collector
  August 28, 2010, The Hindu (Andhra Pradesh, India)
• To rice and shine, Assam draws 8-point strategy
  August 27, 2010, Indian Express (Assam, India)
• Farmer develops improvised drum seeder
  August 26, 2010, The Hindu (Tamil Nadu, India)
• Nabard scheme balm on dry spell
  August 23, The Telegraph (Bihar, India)
• Agriculture Dept sets a target of 5000 to distribute weeders
  August 19, 2010, E-PAO [source: Sangai Express] (Manipur, India)
• SRI technology launced in Tuensang
  August 18, 2010, Nagaland Post (Nagaland, India)
• TN must subsidise farm diesel: M.S.Swaminathan
  August 17, 2010, Deccan Chronicle (Tamil Nadu, India)
• SRI (System of Rice Intensification): Hero of Bastar Sevak Mandal In Kharif -2010
  August 16, 2010, Bastar Sevak Mandal (Chhattisgarh, India)
• Create confidence among farmers
  August 12, 2010, The Hindu (Tamil Nadu, India)
• Less rainfall may hit rice production
  August 12, 2010, The Assam Tribune (Assam, India)
• SRI picks up steam in Perambalur, Ariyalur
  Aug. 9, 2010, The Hindu (Tamil Nadu, India)
• RGMVP’s efforts for sustainable agriculture
  August 4, 2010, Albertam (India)
• Significant achievements under NFSM
  August 3, 2010, Press Information Bureau, Govt. of India
• Stress on SRI to meet demand for foodgrains
  Aug. 2, 2010, The Hindu (Tamil Nadu, India)
  
  

July 2010

• Grain output up in Tamil Nadu, despite less rain
  July 30, 2010, Business Standard (Tamil Nadu, India)
• UPA trying to corporatise agriculture: Manik Sarkar
  July 27, 2010, Sindh Today News (Tripura, India)
• Precision farming in Krishnagiri
  July 15, 2010, The Hindu (Tamil Nadu, India)
• SRI demonstrated to farmers at Pongitong -
  July 14, 2010, Nagaland Post (Nagaland, India)
• New SRI publication by Africare, Oxfam, and WWF: More Rice for People - More Water for the Planet
• NABARD to promote SRI cultivation
  July 13, Business Standard (Andhra Pradesh, India)
• NABARD to promote rice system among AP farmers
  July 12, 2010, Yahoo News India (Andhra Pradesh, India)
• Plan to bring 13,800 hectares under SRI mode
  July 9, 2010, The Hindu (Tamil Nadu, India)
• Farmers' patronage for SRI method on the rise
  July 7, 2010, The Hindu (Tamil Nadu, India)
• New tech to help Bengal cut water consumption
  July 3, 2010, Financial Express (Kolkata, India)
• SRI method of paddy cultivation turns fruitful
  July 2, 2010, The Hindu (Tamil Nadu, India)
• Agricultural programme conducted at Saikul
  July 1, 2010, North East India News [source: Hueiyen News Service] (Manipur, India)
  
  

June 2010

• Agriculture Department to introduce bio-fertilizer on large scale
  June 29, 2010, E-PAO [source: the Sangai Express] (Manipur, India)
• Sensitising farmers to developing techniques, methods under changing climatic conditions
  June 29, 2010, The Hindu (Tamil Nadu, India)
• Ceremonial harvesting of Rice cultivated by SRI at Nagaon
  June 27, 2010, Assam times (Assam, India)
• Kenyan team studies SRI project
  June 26, 2010, The Hindu (Tamil Nadu, India)
• Plan to adopt SRI method on 36, 800 hectares
  June 24, 2010, The Hindu (Tamil Nadu, India)
• Orissa sets kharif target at 74.64 lakh tonne
  June 23, 2010, Business Standard (Orissa, India)
• Nabard aid for paddy
  June 22, 2010, The Telegraph (Jharkhand, India)
• Training prog on SRI in Tsg
  June 22, 2010, Nagaland Post (Nagaland, India)
• SRI seed farmers left in the lurch
  June 19, 2010, The Hindu (Tamil Nadu, India)
• Rice cultivation: Farmers encouraged to use SRI technique
  June 18, 2010, Times of India (Uttar Pradesh,India)
• Minister urges farmers to utilise technologies extensively
  June 10, 2010, The Hindu (Tamil Nadu, India)
• CAU to provide free paddy seedlings
  June 5, 2010, E-PAO [source: The Sanagai Express] (Manipur, India)

May 2010

• Kuruvai to be raised on 34,000 hectares: DC
  May 29, 2010 NewKerala.com (Tamil Nadu, India)
• Field Day on SRI Method of Rice Cultivation at Nagaon
  May 27, 2010, Assam Times (Assam, India)
• Increase agriculutral growth
  May 26, 2010, The Hindu (Tamil Nadu, India)
• Plan to increase rice, pulses production
  May 22, 2010, The Hindu, (Puducherry, India)
• Preparations underway for kuruvai season
  May 19, 2010, The Hindu (Tamil Nadu, India)
• Workshop cum field practical on SRI held
  May 17, 2010, Contify.com [source: Sikkim Express] (Sikkim, India)
• Technology, a key nutrient for farm sector
  May 13, 2010, Business Line (Tamil Nadu, India)
• Weeder for use in SRI developed at TNAU
  May 9, 2010, The Hindu (Tamil Nadu, India)
• Young girls face trafficking as lack of rain drives worsening rural poverty
  May 5, 2010, ReliefNet (Assam, India)
  
  

April 2010

• Agricultural training programme held in Ukhrul
  April 30, 2010, E-PAO [source: The Sangai Express] (Manipur, India)
• Dharmasthala: SKDRDP to start Systematic Rice Intensification campaign
  April 29, 2010, Mangalorean (Karnatatka, India)
• Bright prospects for SRI in State
  April 29, 2010, The Hindu (Tamil Nadu, India)
• World Bank team studies success story of farm project
  April 24, 2010, The Hindu (Tamil Nadu, India)
• Farmers told to take up paddy cultivation under SRI methoda
• April 23, 2010, The Hindu (Tamil Nadu, India)
• SRI technique gaining popularity in Thanjavur
  April 19, 2010, The Hindu (Tamil Nadu, India)
• NABARD encourages best use of natural resources
  April 17, 2010, The Hindu (Karnataka, India)
• Sustainable Sugarcane Initiative launched for increased productivity
  April 17, 2010, The Hindu (Tamil Nadu, India)
• Mokokchung farmers’ feted for implenting SRI
  April 16, 2010, Nagaland Post (Nagaland, India)
• Orissa State to Adopt innovative SSI method of sugarcane cultivation
  April 14, 2010, Business Wire (Oirssa, India)
• SRI method proves beneficial
  April 13, 2010, The Hindu (Orissa, India)
• PM's speech - First Core Group of Central Ministers and State Chief Ministers on prices of Essential Commodities
  Prime Minister of India's website - April 8, 2010 (New Delh, India) [SRI reference is in middle of 5th paragraph]
• Crop insurance for farmers who were draught victims to be distributed
  April 5, 2010, KanglaOnline [source: The Imphal Free Press] (Manipur, India)
• New strategies to tackle drought
  April 1, 2010, the Morung Express (Nagaland, India)
  
  

March 2010

• New farming method boosts food output for India's rural poor
  March 30, 2010, Reuters AlertNet (Bihar, India)
• A ‘young star' who works for farmers
  March 29, 2010, The Hindu (Bihar, India)
• Strategy for increasing rice production
  March 25, 2010 Corporate Press Releases, (India)
• System of Rice Intensification
  March 23, 2010, GS Current Affairs (Karnataka, India)
  [also see March 17 India Infoline News Service article]
• SRI paddy cuts costs, boosts output
  March 23, 2010, Express Buzz (Orissa, India)
• State promoting SRI cultivation, says Rout
  March 21, 2010, The Hindu (Orissa, India)
• Agriculture Department conducts trial run of power weeder
  March 20, 2010, E-PAO [source: Sangai Express] (Manipur, India)
• Highest yield under SRI in Musiri block
  March 18, 2010, The Hindu (Tamil Nadu, India)
• A new farming practice to promote resource conservation in cultivation of rice crops
  March 16, 2010, Press Information Bureau, Govt. of India
• Water management lessons
  March 16, 2010, Deccan Herald (India)
• Assam farmers felicitated by GOI
  March 1, 2010, Assam Times (India)
  

February 2010

• Samba harvest completed
  Feb. 27, 2010, The Hindu (Tamil Nadu, India)
• SRI to be adopted in 70 acres
  Feb. 24, 2010, E-PAO [source: Sangai Express] (Manipur, India)
• Samba harvest across district in full swing
  Feb. 19, 2010, The Hindu (Tamil Nadu, India)
• Norway pledges Rs 7 crore for ClimaRice project
  Feb. 17, 2010, The Hindu (Tamil Nadu, India)
• Tamil Nadu farmers to benefit from Norway project
  Feb. 16, 2010, The Times of India (Tamil Nadu, India)
• Grow rice with half the water
  Feb. 15, 2010, India Today (New Delhi, India)
• Paddy transplanter introduced
  Feb. 10, 2010, The Hindu (Tamil Nadu, India)
• 35 kgs of paddy seeds distributed to farmers
  Feb. 7, 2010, E-PAO [source: Hueiyen News Service](Manipur, India)
• 19,000 ha covered under paddy in Tuticorin
  Feb. 5, 2010, The Hindu ( Tamil Nadu, India)
• SRI method: Farmers reap dividends
  Feb. 3, 2010, Express Buzz (Orissa, India)
  
  

January 2010

• Paddy seeds distributed
  January 30, 2010, E-PAO (Manipur, India) [source: Sangai Express]
• Farmers' awareness on SRI held
  January 20, 2010, E-PAO (Manipur, India)
• System of Rice Intensification: TN, Orissa lead in methodology
  January 20, 2010 The Tribune (Uttarakhand, India)
• 'SRI will help in enhancing rice production in state'
  January 15, 2010, E-PAO (Manipur, India)
• MANIDCO chairman on rabi tour
  January 5, 2010, The Imphal Free Press (Manipur, India)
• Farmer uses organic manure, reaps good yield
  January 9, 2010, The Hindu (Tamil Nadu, India)
• Subsidy for buying paddy transplanter
  January 5, 2010, The Hindu (Tamil Nadu, India)
• Untapped potential in several crops
  January4, 2010, Business Line (Assam, India)
• SRI method to be spread in more acres
  January3, 2010, The Statesman (Orissa, India)
• Ryots near Chennai expect to reap rich
  January 3, 2010, Express Buzz (Tamil Nadu, India)

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2009

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December 2009

• Task force to tacle price rise
  December 21, 2009, The Hindu (Tamil Nadu, India)
• SRI method gives better returns
  December 19, 2009, Express Buzz (Orissa, India)
• Self-reliance in foodgrains a far cry in Tripura
  December 14, 2009, Sinlung (Tripura, India)
• Farmers get SRI method training
  December 10, 2009, The Hindu (Tamil Nadu, India)
• India could be a new pole of global growth: World Bank president
  December 2, 2009, hindustantimes (India) [note: see paragraph 11!]
• Rice intensification project a boon to farmers
  December 1, 2009, The Hindu (Tamil Nadu, India)
• Now Ambuja Cement helps paddy farmers double yield
  Nov. 30, 2009, mydigitalfc.com (West Bengal, India)

November 2009

• Samba paddy, rainfed crops benefit from recent rainfall
  Nov. 25, 2009, The Hindu (Tamil Nadu, India)
• Erode does well in paddy production
  Nov. 25, 2009, The Hindu (Tamil Nadu, India)
• Collector inspects SRI paddy
  Nov. 25, 2009, The Hindu (Tamil Nadu, India)
• CCpur shares success of SRI farming
  Nov. 24, 2009, E-PAO [from Sangai Express] [also see related article in Hueiyen News Service] (Manipur, India)
• Weed growth in rice
  Nov. 19, 2009, The Hindu (West Bengal, India)
• SRI technique gives a boost to rice production in Krishnagiri
  Nov. 19, 2009, The Hindu (Tamil Nadu, India)
• SRI method
  Nov. 12, 2009, E-PAO [from Sangai Express] (Manipur, India)
• SRI method successful in Imphal East
  Nov. 9, 2009, E-PAO [from Sangai Express] (Manipur, India)
• Agri Dept's efforts spur interest on new paddy varieties
  Nov. 7, 2009, E-PAO [from Sangai Express](Manipur, India)
• NREGA holds the key for second Green Revolution
  Nov. 4, 2009, Observer Research Foundation (India)

October 2009

• SRI demonstration plots on 125 hectares in two districts
  Oct. 31, 2009, The Hindu (Tamil Nadu, India)
• NREGA can pave the way for second Green Revolution
  Oct. 30, 2009, Thaindian News (New Delhi, India)
  [also reposted in DailyIndia.com, india4u.com, World News, newKerala.com, and numerous blogs]
• Rice intensification (SRI) technique benefits farmers in Tripura
  Oct. 29. 2009, newKerala.com (Tripura, India)
• Farmers intensify paddy cultivation under SRI
  Oct. 28, 2009, The Hindu (Tamil Nadu, India)
• Farmers taught on SRI
  Oct. 27, 2009, The Morung Express (Nagaland, India)
• 19,558 hectare under SRI method in Nagapattinam
  Oct. 26, 2009, The Hindu (Tamil Nadu, India)
• Adopt SRI method
  Oct. 24, 2009, The Hindu (Tamil Nadu, India)
• Bhutan agriculture scientists learn paddy cultivation technique
  Oct. 13, 2009, VideosFromIndia (Tripura, India)
• World Bank experts study new paddy cultivation system
  Oct. 5, 2009, The Hindu (Tamil Nadu, India)
• CM launches phase II of Jeevika
  Oct. 3, 2009, The Times of India (Patna, India)

September 2009

• Farmers urged to adopt SRI for better yield
  Sept. 25, 2009, The Hindu (Tamil Nadu, India)
• SRI method doubling rice output
  Sept. 8, 2009, Assam Tribune (Assam, India)
• NFSM bogged down in Nagapattinam
  Sept. 7, 2009, The Hindu (Tamil Nadu, India)
• IOB to coordinate with farmers in enhancing rice output
  Sept. 7, 2009, Business Standard (Pudicherry, India)
• SRI paddy crops infuse hope and cheer to Andhra Pradesh farmers
  Sept. 3, 2009, The Hindu (Andhra Pradesh, India)
• Villupuram farmers reap the benefits of SRI system
  Sept. 1, 2009, The Hindu (Tamil Nadu, India)

August 2009

• India aims for more crop, income per drop of water
  Aug. 17, 2009, Commodity Online (Kerala, India)
• Farmers get high yields under SRI
  August 12, 2009, The Hindu (Tamil Nadu, India)
• HYV IR 64 seeds distributed
  Aug. 11, 2009, E-PAO (Manipur, India)
• AAU’s new rice growing technique conserves water
  Aug. 4, 2009, expressindia (Gujarat, India)
• 18,000 hectares to be covered
  Aug. 3, 2009, The Hindu (Tamil Nadu, India)

July 2009

• NFS popularity increases amongst cultivators
  July 30, 2009, The Statesman (West Bengal, India)
• Field gadget gift for farmers
  July 25, 2009 The Telegraph (Jharkhand, India)
• ATMA Mon goes on ‘learning & exposure’ trip
  July 23, 2009, Morung Express (Assam, India)
• Farm tips to beat rain deficit
  July 21, 2009, The Telegraph (Jharkhand, India)
• UP study shows benefits of organic rice production
  July 13, 2009, Businesss Mirror (Philippines)
• SRI to increase cultivation of rice
  July 9, 2009, The Times of India (Allahabad, India)
• SRI cultivation introduced to beat dry spell
  July 6, 2009, E-PAO (Manipur, India)

June 2009

• Hirakud water depleting, farmers left high and dry
  June 29, 2009, express buzz (Sambalpur India)
• Transport minister gets carried away by SRI
  June 29, 2009, The Hindu (Tamil Nadu, India)
• TN govt to spend Rs 520 cr on Agri Deptt
  June 29, 2009, Business Standard (Chennai, India)
• TN govt prepares roadmap to enhance agricultural output
  June 22, 2009, FnBnews.com (Mumbai, India)
• TN chalks out initiatives to enhance agricultural output
  June 18, 2009, The Hindu (Chennai, India)
• Minister declares open agri clinics at Anbil, Valanadu
  June 13, 2009, The Hindi (Tiruchi, India)
• New farming technique yields more paddy
  June 10, 2009, The Times of India (Chennai, India)
• Farmers get tips on Rice Farming
  June 10, 2009, The Times of India (Chennai, India)
• SRI technology introduced in Kohima
  June 8, 2009, The Morung Express (Nagaland, India)
• Normal coverage for kuruvai paddy crop
  June 6, 2009, The Hindu (Tamil Nadu, India)
• SRI cultivation a boon for farmers
  June 2 2009, express buzz (Orissa, India)

May 2009

• 10,000 hectares to be brought under SRI programme
  May 30, 2009, The Hindu (Dindigul, Tamil Nadu, India)
• SRI to usher in Green Revolution in Mon
  May 20, 2009, The Morung Express (Nagaland, India)
• A magic hand for hungry stomachs
  May 1, 2009, Tehelka (India)

April 2009

• Orissa's foodgrains output likely to touch 10 million tonnes
  April 28, 2009, Orissadiary.com (Orissa, India)
• New farming methods for Ladakh, Kashmir
  April 15, 2009, Tribune News Service (Srinagar, India)
• Integrated farming emerges a viable option for Kerala
  S April 9, 2009, iStockAnalyst (India) [see 5th paragraph for SRI ref.]

March 2009

• More paddy will be produced
  March 26, 2009, The Statesman (West Bengal, India)
• System of Rice Intensification Can Improve Livelihood Profile of Small Farmers
  March 23, 2009, The Central Chronicle (Madhya Pradesh, India)
• Governor optimistic on financial front
  March 18, 2009, E-PAO (Manipur, India) (SRI ref in 3rd paragraph from bottom)
• SRI method: Thanjavur stands first in State
  March 15, 2009, The Hindu, (Tamil Nadu, India)
• SRI method: T.N. steals a march over Andhra Pradesh
  March 11, 2009, The Hindu (India)

February 2009

• State level symposium on SRI (3rd article from top)
  Feb. 21, 2009, The Sentinel (Assam, India)
• Introduction of the System of Rice Intensification
  Feb. 20, 2009, Press Information Bureau (Govt. of India)
• Tirumanur farmer records highest yield
  Feb. 13, 2009, The Hindu (Tamil Nadu, India)
• 18 Assam farmers in Tripura for SRI training
  Feb. 9, 2009, Chennaivision (Chennai, India)
• Training to farmers in SRI
  Feb. 9, The Hindu (Tripura, India)
• System of Rice Intensification a boon to farmers
  Feb.1, The Hindu (Tamil Nadu)

January 2009

• SRI raises productivity in Tiruchi
  January 17, The Hindu (Tamil Nadu, India)
• Rice intensification technology makes paddy farmers smile in Sankagiri
  January 16, 2009, The Hindu (Tamil Nadu, India)
• NALCO asked to promote SRI
  January 1, 2009, Tathya, (Orissa, India)

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2008

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December 2008

• SRI method becoming a hit with Erode district farmers
  December 24, 2008, Indopia (Tamil Nadu, India)
• IITs can play major role in changing India
  December 22, 2008, The Economic Times (Tamil Nadu India)
• Workshop: Promotion of System Rice Intensification paddy cultivation for achieving food security
  December 17, SRI Learning Alliance Workshop
• Paddy farmers reap success with new cultivation system
  December 16, the Hindu Business Line (Tamil Nadu, India)
• Rice intensification technology gaining popularity in India
  December 15, Newspost Online World (also in newKerala.com)
• Central expert takes stock of new paddy plantation system
  December 14, North East Watch (Assam, India)
• Six ryots implementing SRI method honoured
  December 14, The Hindu (Orissa, India)
• Rice paddy harvest in Bongaigaon District
  December 11, North East Watch (Assam, India)
• Special rice intensification fund needed
  December 9, Sify.com (India)
• Centre urged to create 'SRI promotional Fund'
  December 7, ChennaiOnline (Tamil Nadu, India)
• So shall your reap: New tech sows a seed for larger rice harvest
  December 6, The Financial Express (Tamil Nadu, India)
• India: Experts suggest new methods to attain production target
  December 5, Oryza
  [similar article: New approach to meet rice production target December 4, The Hindu (Tamil Nadu, India)]
• 48 year old woman stole the SRI show
  December 3, Coimbatore Live (Tamil Nadu, India) [also reported in Express Buzz and Indian Express]
• SRI can help achieve goal of food security in India
  December 1, ChennaiOnline (Tamil Nadu, India)

November 2008

• System of Rice Intensification picking up
  Nov. 20, The Hindu (Tamil Nadu, India)
• Record average productivity kuruvai crop in state
  Nov. 19, The Hindu (Tamil Nadu, India)
• SRI yields encouraging result
  Nov. 14, The Hindu (Orissa, India)
• NGO on mission to increase food production
  Nov. 13, The Statesman (West Bengal, India)

September 2008

• TN betters own record in paddy productivity
  Sept. 30, The Financial Express (Tamil Nadu, India)
• Many Ryots Adopt System of Rice Intensification
  Sept. 23, The Hindu (Tamil Nadu, India)
• Adopt latest technology
  Sept. 7, The Hindu (Tamil Nadu, India)
• Irabot Foundation sets up SRI
  Sept. 4, E-Pao (reprinted from the Sangai Express) (India)

August 2008

• Plan to cover samba paddy on 1.02 lakh hectares
  Aug. 29, The Hindu (India)
• Kuruvai paddy crop prospects good
  Aug. 27, The Hindu (India)
• Emphasis on "Precision Farming
  Aug. 11, The Hindu (India)
• 15 District Collectors to meet in Madurai
  Aug. 11, The Hindu (India)

August 2008

• Achieving more with less: SRI - A new way of rice cultivation:
  Two new videos from the World Bank Institute

July 2008

• More for Less
  July 22, Deccan Herald (India)
• India: A New Way of Cultivating Rice
  News and Broadcast (World Bank)

June 2008

• India can produce more rice through 'SRI': Experts
  June 21, Assam Times
• Transplanter is a boon
  June 10, 2008, The Hindu (Tamil Nadu, India)
• State to introduce SRI farming
  June 7, 2008, The Hindu (Orissa, India)
• Boost to rice, pulses
  June 7, 2008, The Hindu (Karnataka, India)

May 2008

• SRI method brings high yields
  May 23, 2008, The Hindu (Tamil Nadu, India)
• Badal asks Centre to include state in food security mission
  May 17, 2008, Financial Express (see also article in Punjab Newspaper)
• …More shall you reap
  May 3, 2008, Outlook Business (India)

April 2008

• SRI implementation in all paddy fields in Tiruchi district
  April 26, 2008, The Hindu (Tamil Nadu, India)