Tiruvarur District
State-level rice festival 2011 – CREATE-Organic Farming Agriculture Training and Research Centre, 28th – 29th May, 2011, Adhirangam, Tiruvarur, Tamil Nadu
Posted on 23 May, 2011 05:46 PMOrganizer: CREATE-Organic Farming Agriculture Training and Research Centre
Venue: Adhirangam near Thiruthuraipoondi in Tiruvarur district, Tamil Nadu
Description:
G. Nammalvar, organic scientist, will preside over the festival. An exhibition will be organised in connection with the festival in which 47 traditional varieties of paddy will be displayed. Paddy varieties ranging from short, middle and long term with duration of 60 to 180 days will be displayed.
Farmers experiences on System of Rice Intensification in India – A report by ICRISAT-WWF
Posted on 14 Dec, 2010 08:29 PM
This report on farmers’ experiences on System of Rice Intensification (SRI) in India by ICRISAT and WWF is an effort to compile the experiences of those farmers who pioneered the SRI method in various regions. They experimented in their own way, articulating their point of view on the method.
The SRI is a national phenomenon in India and rice-cultivating farmers, particularly those who have less than one hectare of land, have experimented, refined, adopted and are promoting SRI. It is their hard work and trust that has spread this unknown method into all rice-growing states. Out of 564 rice-growing districts in India, SRI is being practiced by the farmers in about 216 districts.