Following up the well-attended first national SRI symposium held in Hyderabad in November, 2006 (
http://ciifad.cornell.edu/sri/countries/india/innatlsymp1106.pdf) , there will be a second symposium held October 3-5, 2007, in Agartala, capital of the state of Tripura in northeast India (see
http://www.sri-india.net / for details -- and also for a very fine SRI web page). This event is hosted by the Tripura state government's Department of Agriculture and is co-sponsored by the Directorate of Rice Research (DRR) and the Directorate of Rice Development (DRD) of the Indian Council for Agricultural Research (ICAR), the Central Rice Research Institute, the National Bank for Agricultural and Rural Development (NABARD), the Andhra Pradesh state agricultural university (ANGRAU), and the Sri Dorabji Tata Trust. It is supported by the World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF) through its collaborative program with ICRISAT. Participation from outside India is welcomed by the organizers. Queries can be sent to Dr. Vinod Goud (
v.goud@... ).
Source: SRI UPDATE No. 14 (September 20, 2007)