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Dear Rajendra Uprety,
dear SRI network members,
thanks for your thoughts.
I will write my comments between your lines below...
Dear Andreas,
Thank you very much for your congratulation and mail about our network meeting. We need to expand our network with more friends who are really interested to use and promote SRI method in their working areas.
What about all of us in the network becoming pro-active on this?
If each of us can promote 1 or 2 new members, that would be
great!
We need to activate our network for output oriented work. In past some weeks many friends are showing their interest to become members of SRI network, but many of them are not regular users of email and internet. So we also need to think about association/society type networking among interested members/professional. We are working to organize such working group in eastern region of Nepal soon. We can set up similar working group for expand SRI in whole Nepal. What is your thinking towards this subject?
I personally have not much experience in the non-electronic
networking types you describe. It might be good to share with us your
experience of Eastern Nepal, esp. how you organise it.
We can organize network meeting as soon as possible, because normal rice season is coming very near. But we need to finalize certain agenda, why we are going to meet? Who are going to participate in this meeting? If we are going to meet only for experience sharing, it will better to utilize our present email network.
For me the main purpose is experience sharing. I agree that much
of this can happen via the email network, but again this limits it to
those who have access to this media. Face to face sharing has also the
benefit of interaction and stronger relationship building,
understanding, generation of new ideas, etc.
Because for any gathering we need some money, and money is always one constraint for any meeting. Last year we organized one days experience sharing workshop on SRI at Biratnagar. I informed every SRI network members about that gathering but no one responed about participation. That gathering was very successful regarding participation and its output than after.
I would still encourage you and others to share information about
planned meetings and events on the network. Sometimes it fits well
with other travel plans, and some people might like to
participate.
I think local awarness raising meetings are important to give
momentum to farmers adopting SRI. We did one such meeting last year in
Gulariya, Bardiya, and the response from local NGOs and farmers was
good. During the last two weeks we were involved in two SRI "how
to" trainings with partner groups.
One was in Tikapur, Kailali with 38 participants from the Tharu
community. They are very enthusiastic about it. I just gave them the
little brochure last year, and some of them tried it out accordingly.
They were encouraged by the result and are keen to do it better this
year. If all these 38 farmers grow according to SRI principles, it
will become the talk of the place!
The second training was in Chhapargaudi, Banke with 8
participants. We will have also a demonstration plot there and this
will certainly generate interest.
SRI methods is going to spreading day by day and more people are going to involve in this movement.
At present we have several beautiful SRI field of early rice and hundreds of new farmers are going to familiar/participant in coming season. Soon we are going to start radio program through FM radio on SRI method from Biratnagar. I hope it will increase our new friends from many districts of eastern Nepal. But our joint venture will yield more, so we need to develop strategy plan with proactive network for the promotion of SRI in Nepal. If we can organize fruitful meeting I am ready to participate in any date. More in next mail.
Any other thoughts on this from the others in this network?
Please raise your voice :-) Any pro-active suggestions on how to make
this network more effective are highly appreciated!
with regards
Rajendra Uprety
DADO Morang, Biratnagar.
Phone: 021-521358/526568 (Office)
: 021-525054 (Residence)
Yours,
Andreas Jenny
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