Case Study
Case Study : 1
Why Madhab enlisted in disadoption list
Madhab samal is a progressive farmer of Puruna Badabhain which is 15 kms. far from the block head quarter, Narsinghpur He is having a land entitlement of 5 acres and known as a labourious farmer in the locality. He produces paddy, black gram, ground nut, mung and different cash crops like sugarcane, different vegetables etc. In this effort he was assisted by his wife one daughter and one son. When CARR people approached him he carefully listened it and decided to adopt SRI in his plot comprising of 40 Dcml. where there is an open well for all times water. CARR felt was an opportunity to motivate other farmers of the said village comprising of 272 nos farmers. If Madhab Samal adopts it then other villagers will be easily motivated to join in SRI movement.
In this connection Madhab was encouraged to start it soon. If monsoon fails the water will be lifted from the open well and after 15 to 20 days when the tillerings will come up the other farmers will be easily motivated. In the meantime the monsoon will break and the saplings will be taken care of automatically.
In order to show others water was lifted before monsoon break and prepared bed for saplings. Madhab waited for 15 days and the supplings goes older and older. After 15 days it was decided to lift water and prepare field for transplantation. Transplantation was made still then the monsoon was late. They could not control although he gave sufficient water from the open well. The land which was very useful for paddy crop did not permit the weeders to operate in its soil moreover he spent 40 man power (Rs.2, 000/-) to support the weeds and its cost of production was went high. Ironically that village encircled by mount ranges experienced the drought. This event not only discouraged Madhab but also the whole villagers’ altogether. That is why out of 210 farmers Madhab became the only dis-adopter this year and it is a good learning for the SRI practitioners.
Case Study : 2
Ashok a Youngman of Malisahi village could develop a weeder by his own
When CARR approached to the people of Malisahi village for adopting SRI, the concerned villages didnot accept it but made very disheartening statements. It not only restrained the other farmers but also discouraged CARR staffs in the way of SRI promotion.
In spite of all the negative implications this year 20 nos of farmers have joined in SRI movement among them Ashok Behera a young farmer has developed a weeder made up of iron which is driven by one man and steered by one man. In this way there in no need of bullock and it is very much useful for upland weeding. There are different types of weeders for upland paddy but this weeder can make weeding more than 100 Dcml. Per day with low cost
Ashok Behera with its developed weeder
Ashok Behera recently joined in a school as a “GANA SIKSHYAK”. He gave all his land for share croping. But this year no body came forward to take his land for share croping.
This prompted Ashok to take the challenge of doing the field by his own. He comes once a week to his field and started cultivating 2 acres of his fertile land in “SRI” method with the help of his own devised weeder – astonishingly he could show the other farmers full of hills through out the field comprising of 70 to 80 tillerings per hill. More interestingly it was also seen due to erratic moon soon Ashok was very careful for water and thought the crop season 3 to 5 inches of water was maintained. In spite of this much of water such numbers of tillerings were come up and the share croppers who are not interested to cultivate it now feel very curious.
Here we feel very surprise that standing water is not permitted in SRI but here we could experience that in this field there is a continuous standing water of 5 inches still then the no of tillerings developed up to 70 to 80 nos.
Ashok’s DSR tillering reaches up to 70 Tulasi verity of 130 days
Case Study : 3
BAIKUNTHA BECAME THE ICON OF GOPALPUR
Baikuntha pradhan is a small farmer having 4 acres of land who promotes the traditional paddy cultivation system.
He had sown the paddy in all of his upland and middle land paddy field. Due to scarcity of rain in the month of June like others he faced a drought. He lost the hope of further crop due to heavy rain in the month of july because the time of sewing was expired. In one acre of his paddy land he did not find the paddy only weeds and weeds. He had used 10 tractor loads of buffalo dung which caries weeds in itself. Traditionally if the weather suits these weeds turns in to very good manure (organic) and feeds the paddy crop by which it yields more and more.
he considers this field as his “RICE BOWL”.
In this way Baikuntha had lost the hope of paddy as Prafulla Barada another farmer of Khairapanga village came in the contact of Baikuntha and the later described his ill fate before Prafulla. Prafulla had the experience of this “SRI” procedure and he suggested to contact CARR people.Baikuntha was not confident on the method and was convinced. Prafulla told if you face any problem like low yielding that will be compensated by me which doubly encourged Baikuntha. Before it Baikuntha had prepared the nursery for traditional transplantation.
Next day Baikuntha contacted to Debarchan Sahoo the Zonal co-coordinator of CARR and in the next the day field was prepared. Fortunately the traditional nursery raised by baikuntha was 13 days old and those 13 days nursery was transplanted with the help of a marker (roller).
In the month of July 28th the paddy was transplanted and after one month 8 days i.e. Sept. of it was found that there are maximum 42 tillerings and the minimum tillerings are 25. Since it is a 160 days duration paddy there is enough time of further up scaling of tillerings.
As per the statement of Baikuntha the people were telling that Baikuntha has gone mad and perhaps takes alcohol. He has transplanted the single paddy of 14 days which was not seen anywhere. Now Baikuntha says I am happy enough those people along with other villagers are coming to see it and he says in coming year he will do SRI in all of his field and help others to do so.
Case Study : 4
NABA A TRIBAL YOUNGMAN OF KHOLA A TRIBAL VILLAGE IN NARASINGHPUR BLOCK COULD PROVE THE FAULT OF THE BRIEF IN SRI
There is a tribal village called “Klolo” located within the dense forest of Narasinghpur block. In this small village all the 15 acres of paddy field has been converted into SRI only inspite of water scarcity and the attack of wild elephants, wild pigs etc.
Naba in his SRI paddy field
Naba Nayak a Youngman could prove the belief of SRI i.e. young seedlings up to 8 to 12 days should be transplanted in spacing method. Although he knows the techniques from CARR staffs, still then he was forced to transplant the seedling of 30 days due to lack of rain in maintaining the space. Due to lack of rain he also could not apply the weeder and traditionally uprooted the weeds as a result of which there are 50 nos of tillerings in an average through out the field of 40 dcml of land and the height of the plants are up to 5ft. The name of the Varity is Bouluchi indigenous seed (130 days)
Case Study : 5
Name of the Farmer : Rajkishore Behera
Name of the Village : Kanjiapala
Land : 6 Dcml.
Name of the Paddy Variety : NABINA
Rajkishore is a marginal farmer who was attracted towards SRI. He took double challenge. One challenge is SRI itself and another is DSR i.e. direct seeded SRI which was new concept for this area.
He started sewing behind the plowing. The oxen were also not accost embed to it. So they were frightened and the rows were not in line position and Rajkishore decided to stop it apprehending any injury to both oxen.
Then he collected another iron instrument called “KANKA” from his house and made line through the 6 Dcml of land and sew the paddy in those lines. When the pre-monsoon came almost all the paddy were emerged to its optimum and Rajkishore was happy to see it. After some days the flood came and the same field was submerged for 7 days. The condition of those paddies were not good. The other farmers advised Rajkishore to stop SRI and do the traditional cropping. Rajkishore was not harassed and whatever were alive he put it in lines and adopted the methods of SRI. It was seen there were 30 to 35 nos. of tillers per hill and astonishingly 28 to 30 nos. of panicles had also come up. Lengths of the panicles were 12 inches and 207 crops per panicle in an average was found. In this way he got 27 Nauti ( 108 Kgs ) and 1 Nauti ( 4 kgs ) chaps.
In conventional method he was getting 10 to 15 NAUTI i.e 60 kgs only and in DSR he got almost double production.
Rajkishore Behera
Case Study : 6
Name of the farmer : Rabindra Kumar Sahoo
Village : Padmanavpur
“SRI” field Land : 1 Acre (100 Dcml.)
Rabi was not confident enough on maintaining space. Instead of 12 inch spacing he maintained 8 inches as a result of which he could not make weeding properly through weeder. But as weeding is very important he used a small iron made indigenous weeder and was not successful in fully controlling the weeds.
Still then he got 40 to 45 nos. of tillers per hill in an average which could astonish other farmers also. It was seen that there were 238 nos of crops per panicle where as in traditional system the people were getting 170 to 180 paddy per panicle in the same nearby plot as well as the same verity. As per the crop cutting report it was seen that from 5 mtr to 5 mtr land 18 kgs of paddy was yeilded. If we will calculate in this way an acre of land is consisted of 400 squre mtrs and from it yielding is 28.8 quintals. In this way per hector yielding is 72 quintals. where as he was yielding 16quintals per acre and 40 quintals per hector in conventional method. Now he got an additional crop of 12.8 quintals in kharif season and showed a new path for the other villagers.
When we were discussing with him he was reluctant to do it because there was the threat of devastation by the cows who are grazing freely in our area and another threat is the cost of production which is also very low cost. He says that now I have got the trick of cost saving and there is no need of dependency on the sharecroppers who make heavy demand before the land owners.
Rabindra Sahoo
Case Study : 7
Name of the farmer : Debaraj Baghar
Name of the village : Ranasinghpur
“SRI” land amount : 120 dcml.
Debaraj Baghar a marginal farmer was motivated by CARR staffs and he was agreed for SRI in transplantation method. Debaraj says he was using 40 kgs of paddy for transplantation in the concerned field but used only 2 kgs and 200grams paddy for nursery purposes. When his wife got this information she visited the field and was disheartened. Debaraj says there was a misunderstanding for almost one month in his family concerned with SRI. The condition of the field was so precarious that Debaraj could not bear it and did not visit his field. Being disgusted from family side as well as neighbors side Debaraj was angry on Seshadev, CARR staff. Seshadev in order to normalize the situation assured him that if you will not get better yielding the rest paddy will be compensated by me subject to condition you will adopt all the norms as per my advice. This statement could normalize Debaraj as per SRI concept he adopted all the norms carefully and used adequate organic manures. After 2 months Debraj could see 30 to 40 tillers per hill and the villagers were astonished to see it. From this land Debaraj got 27 Quintals of paddy where as he was getting 10 to 12 quintals from the said field only.
Debaraj Baghar
Case Study : 8
Name of the Farmer : Basant Naik
Name of the Village : Malisahi
Amount of Land : 80 Dcml
Basant Naik is a Dalit and marginal farmer of Malisahi in Narasinghpur Block. Ha had adopted DSR. During the interview ha says he was using 40 kgs paddy in the same field through rope marker he used 2 kgs of paddy. After the pre monsoon the nurseries were came up and the paddy field looked very different. In one a row within a gap of 10 to 11 inches 3 to 8 nurseries came up. Only strong nursery ones were saved and others were up rooted. His family and other villagers were not optimistic of its success still then Basant was adopting the different norms of SRI like weeding in 10 days interval, using organic manures, watering properly etc. After 2 months the hills are came up to 50 to 60 tillerings. Since the field is located in the road side the other villagers also come to see how miraculously the field is developing. His family which was discouraged by the villagers are now happy and particularly Basant’s wife is very happy. The villagers are asking Basant to supply them the seeds for coming year thinking that it is a very good Varity. But he says it is not high yield or high breed. It is an indigenous seed only.
During crop cutting it was seen from 5 mtr x 5 mtr. he harvested 18 kgs i.e. 28.8 quintal per acre.
Now Basant leading the SRI movement in the village.
Case Study : 9
Bhagirathi took the challenge and got victorious
Bhagirathi is a marginal farmer of Jaypur village in Narasinghpur Block. He had an exposure regarding “SRI” in kharif season in his own village and had got a ray of hope in achieving something in “Ravi” season.
There is a scope of paddy crop in “Ravi” season where he does not had the land. There was a small patch of land amounting of 6 acres where all the land owners were agreed to start “SRI” in “Ravi” for the 1st time in their life except Bhagirathi who collected 88 dcml of land from Ramesh Dehuri as share cropper. Ramesh was reluctant to do “SRI” in his land but Bhagirathi was interested to do so. In this connection there was an under standing between the land owner and share cropper that the land owner will get 12 bags of paddy from Bhagirathi the share cropper. He has no business with any crop loss due to pest, disease or due to any reason and Bhagirathi was agreed with it.
CARR staffs had motivated all the farmers and covered all the 6 acres of land in “SRI” and Bhagirathi was also involved in it. He says in “Ravi” season we use more chemical fertilizer and pesticides but this year we have only used organic fertilizer preparing by our own and the tillerings are 35 to 40 in an average thought the field. Out of 30 to 40 tillerings 25 to 35 tillerings are bearded with panicles. Grains are quite healthy and there are 210 to 240 nos. of grains per panicle are available in an average. In spite of this achievement it was seen some stem borer who could attacked 3% to 5% panicles which Bhagirathi could not control in time.
As per Bhagirathi’s statement “I will get more than 50 bags of paddy from the same land and out of it the land owner will get 12 bags and he will get 38 bags which is a miracle in my life. In no other way I could not have got so much of paddy. Parbati was opened my eyes” he says.
Case Study : 10
Fakira Biswal the Successful “SSI” Farmer.
Baramba and Narasinghpur the two Blocks of cuttack district are very rich in sugarcane cultivation from time immemorial. People are very hard working. Fertility of the land and water availability both are the gift of the nature.
When the co-operative dept. installed a sugar factory the people were dreamt of getting more yielding by the use of machines and other scientific devises. After some days this was proved wrong. Co-operative dept. could not manage it properly and handed over it to SHAKTI Sugars which is a private sugar production company and it exploited both the farmers and the govt. Then govt. tried to manage it for one year and failed and next it transferred to another company Balajee who is also failed to manage it.
The farmers lost a lot. They could not find the alternative source of livelihood and had to migrate to different cities and metro cities. To make the cultivation profitable CARR had initiated “SRI” in 3 years ago and found the result is very encouraging, and this year CARR has taken an initiative of sugarcane intensification in similar to “SRI”.
Fakira Biswal Counting the tillerings in his “SSI” Field.
In this system Fakira Biswal an old farmer from Mangarajpur has become an instrumental in materializing the mission. Initially he has tried with 24 dcmls of land. In this land he has used 600 nos of sugarcane buds which is of cost of around Rs420/- .But in traditional system he could have to spend Rs 1260/- for seedling purposes as per his statement. Fakira Biswal transplanted this sugarcane in such a land where he had already shown horse gram and the nurseries are 15 days old. Inside this crop Fakira transplanted 25 nos. of buds per one dcml. After the harvestation those horse grams the sugar canes has reached up to 12 to 15 tillerings. When the horse grams were harvested the sugarcane got scope of more watering and manures. The sugarcane after 3 months has reached up to 20 to 25 tillerings. Fakira Biswal got 2 Quintals of horse gram from the same land which costs around Rs2000/- . After this horse gram the same farmer has used the same land with the cultivation of Brinjal and ladies fingure. The production is yet to come and the plants are very healthy to look.
