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dear Andreas

Greetings from Bhubaneswar, Orissa. I was drawn into the SRI Nepal group
after hearing about the interesting progress on SRI in Nepal and the work
of Rajendra Upretty from Norman and the SRI website. I have completed a
personally enriching study on SRI in India tracing the history and rather
complex evolution of SRI in India over the years. The work was part of a
case on rural innovation and I believe that we in India have much to learn
from experiences in Nepal, Sri Lanka and Burma on SRI even as there have
been some very interesting experiences in Southern India on SRI.

I kind of lost the SRI thread briefly while tranisting from doing policy
research work with a base at ICRISAT at Hyderbad to my current position
teaching rural management students at Bhubaneswar. However continued
interaction with some of the groups in Andhra Pradesh and a recent meeting
with Norman before the rice conference as well as some documentation of
work in the state of Orissa has kept the interest alive. I am basically a
science policy researcher and believe that SRI has several lessons for the
way agricultural research can be reprioritised based on experiences of
farmers and enterprising agricultural extension and to a lesser extent
research staff. We have been discussing the need to share more widely the
SRI experiences in South Asia. There is a national workshop planned in
November 17-18 in India on SRI and I hope in the not too distant future we
will have experiences to share across south Asia. I find the yahoo group an
excellent idea to share experiences and information and am learning a lot
from reading the mails.

Regards

Shambu Prasad

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C. Shambu Prasad, Associate Professor
Xavier Institute of Management, Bhubaneswar 751013
Ph: +91 - 674 - 3983-740 (O) 3983- 876 (R)
Fax: +91 - 674 - 2300995
Email: shambu@..., shambuprasad@...

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