Dear jenny,

                   I like to  introduce me gopal theinventer of kadiramangalam system of rice intensification very popular in  my  area and this is also posted in cornell web.now  i had developed a new implement that can form ridges and furrows and plants are  planted on the  side of  ridges the perfomance of the crop is excellent and the yields are up 20%^ more than sri done on plain feilds.i will send you photos and i am prepared to assist you in this new method at nepal also.expecting your favourable reply

yours

gopal

First off I would like to thank you for allowing me to join this group.  I am from America But I feel I can contribute a lot in the area of Nanoscale Biotechnology and help every farmer in Nepal on every crop with methods that have never been applied before. 

Last April 2006 we presented in New Delhi, India at ASSOCHAM BioTechnology Conference and presented Information on Feeding 9 Billion people by 2050.  After that we were invited to President Kalam private residence to discuss the Agriculture problems and opportunities.  I have Been doing the biotechnology liquid agriculture nutrient technology now for about four

Years and we have had at least 25% to 100%  increase in growth on many crops with no

Yield losses.  I have plenty of videos, audios, papers, etc. I can privately give those that

Want to work with me.  Currently I am working with Mr. Vignesh Dinakar of Hyderbad and

His testing of Rice Blast and Leafy Vegtables trials are published on our website.  I will

Be back in Nepal in 2007 and maybe I can met some of you.  Thanks Don Wilshe

My website is www.riceforlife.com

Dear Sustainable Interested Parties!

What I need to know from you is your problems so I can solve them.  And if you are a  distributor, farmer or academic.  I can send you reports and introduce you to Mr. Sanya, former 20 year thailand country manager for Monsanto who in the last 10 months went from 0 to 1000 farmers growing rice because we increased the production and revenues of those farmer by typically over 20%.  Imagine increasing the revenues , and the problems we can solve in Nepal as stated below.

Vignesh, your country man, has been able to clean his rice plants of "RICE BLAST" in a just few days. He was also able to increase the growth of green amaranth by 100% with just two

Applications of the product.  Best you talk to him..

Your Country Contact!

Vignesh Dinakar

Flat No. 3,

Sri Rama Sai Residency,

6th Street,

Laxmi Nagar,

Saidabad Colony,

Hyderabad - 500 059.

Email: vignesh_dinakar@...

Phone: 040 - 2407 2271

Mobile: 98496 30292

Description

First off you have to recognize that its not in the business interest of the agri-chem.

industry to solve these problems below.

Here are my priorties for Asia and the region!

1).    What are the major crops you see this can be used on including fruit trees..

2).    Stop the insanity of Air, Water, Soil pollution and killing of people through pesticide exposure!

3).    Do you want the product for pests control, plant growth or both?

4).    If you want to be a distributor do how do you plan to sell to the farmer.  This product requires one on one sales.   Its really best we get a set of farmers in regions and let them sell the product to each other showing each other they are making more net money with the product..

5).    Here are my priorities for Nepal...

     a).    Stop the suicides, just let me help the farmers increase production and revenues, This will help..

     b).   Help with the goals of energy independence.  Whether you are growing whatever product for biofuels I am 100% convinced I can increase the production of Jatropha, Sugar Beets, etc.

     c).   End Indebtedness and Help in eliminate Poverty in Nepal by making Nepal a exporting country.  Growing products for its own use doesn't allow the farmer to get premium value for his crops. Nepal does very little exporting of some of the worlds best crops and lets not forget them mangoes that I can help eliminate yield loss!

     d).   Stop Amputations from bacteria skin infection because of diabetes.  Nepal is the number country in the  world for this!

    e).    Eliminate pesticides!

    f).    Reduce the use of fertilizers that kill the biologicals that are creating the top soils to grow plants. Once the fertilizers company have killed your biologicals they are the only source for plant growth.   These weaken plants need more pesticides.  These pesticides only hurt people, air, water and soils.  Pesticides stunt production of plants and actually help keep farmers poor.  

    g).    Accept no help from agri chem. companies or sponsored university agri chem. companies that want to  maintain the status of Nepal farming.

Given a chance I can do the above.  Just pick a single one!

Don Wilshe

www.riceforlife.com

001-239 247-5601

If you want to call me anytime its free..

download www.skype.com

and my contact name is donwilshe

Dear colleagues,

we welcome a new member in our SRI Network. His name is Father Johnn
and he works in Nigeria. This is what he wrote:

   Comment from user:
   I am a rice farmer in Ifon, Nigeria and became aware of SRI
   only recently. I would like to know what progress had been made so far
   in adapting SRI to Upland ecolgy in Nepal, so I can use on my farm.

I would be nice to have a short introduction from you, so that we can
get to know you better. Please share your questions and experience
with us! Welcome to the group!

Andreas Jenny,
Group Moderator
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                  Technical Advisor
                  SAGOAL - Tackling Poverty, Changing Lives

         mail:    P.O. Box 1230, Kathmandu, Nepal
       office:    Deva Phulbari Chowk, Nepalgunj, Banke Dist.
          fon:    081 526615  fax:  +977 (0)81 521597
        eMail:    mailto:ajenny@...
   web (priv):    http://www.beeandy.de/

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Dear Tirso,

 

Thanks for your email. For the proper diagnosis of your rice problems, detail information is necessary. But, I guess you might have micronutrient deficiency problems or insect problems. Generally, zinc deficiency problems starts from 3rd week after transplanting, but the deficiency symptoms is some difference (like the color of older leaf will be  light to dark bronze-red not yellow) but stunted growth is also there. In severe drought condition rice leaf will turn into yellowish orange color with growth reduction. This is Magnesium deficiency and it can be recover by keeping some water for few days in the field. Third possibility may be due to attack by "mealy bug", if you open up leaf sheath from rice plants there may be (inside the leaf sheath) several bugs covered by white cotton cover. The symptoms of this insect attack is yellowish color of the leaf with stunted growth of the plant.

 

You can analyze your situation and recognized what was the actually reason behind your crop. Or you can write detail about your soil type, water management system, fertility status of the soil etc. If you have still some problems, please write me. More in the next mail.

 

with best wishes

 

Rajendra Uprety

Nepal.

 

   

----- Original Message -----

From: ohms73law

To: sri-nepal@yahoogroups.com

Sent: Wednesday, December 06, 2006 6:35 AM

Subject: [sri-nepal] die back

Dear group member,

Peace!

Recently, I conducted SRI trial farm in our area. The 1st trial is on
productive stage while the 2nd trial is still on vegetative stage. I
encountered some problem on the 1st trial. Some hills were stunted
growth and yellowing of leaves starts to occur 3 weeks after
transplanting. Yellowing starts at the tipmost part of the leaf. On
the 2nd trial I observed also few hills that has the same
abnormaliites of growth and yellowing of leaves. What was the cause of
these abnormalities? I hope you can help me out. Thanks

Warm wishes,
Tirso

----- Original Message -----

From: ohms73law

To: sri-nepal@yahoogroups.com

Sent: Wednesday, December 06, 2006 6:35 AM

Subject: [sri-nepal] die back

Dear group member,

Peace!

Recently, I conducted SRI trial farm in our area. The 1st trial is on
productive stage while the 2nd trial is still on vegetative stage. I
encountered some problem on the 1st trial. Some hills were stunted
growth and yellowing of leaves starts to occur 3 weeks after
transplanting. Yellowing starts at the tipmost part of the leaf. On
the 2nd trial I observed also few hills that has the same
abnormaliites of growth and yellowing of leaves. What was the cause of
these abnormalities? I hope you can help me out. Thanks

Warm wishes,
Tirso

Dear Tirso,
This doesn't sound good. Surely someone in the SRI-Nepal network can
give you some advice. On my visit to Morang district a month ago, I
talked with dozens and dozens of farmers who had used SRI methods, and
none suggested anything at all like this. Possibly there is some soil
nutrient problem that needs to be identified and remedied.
Norman

ohms73law wrote:
> Dear group member,
>
> Peace!
>
> Recently, I conducted SRI trial farm in our area. The 1st trial is on
> productive stage while the 2nd trial is still on vegetative stage. I
> encountered some problem on the 1st trial. Some hills were stunted
> growth and yellowing of leaves starts to occur 3 weeks after
> transplanting. Yellowing starts at the tipmost part of the leaf. On
> the 2nd trial I observed also few hills that has the same
> abnormaliites of growth and yellowing of leaves. What was the cause of
> these abnormalities? I hope you can help me out. Thanks
>
> Warm wishes,
> Tirso
>
>

Dear group member,

Peace!

Recently, I conducted SRI trial farm in our area. The 1st trial is on
productive stage while the 2nd trial is still on vegetative stage. I
encountered some problem on the 1st trial. Some hills were stunted
growth and yellowing of leaves starts to occur 3 weeks after
transplanting. Yellowing starts at the tipmost part of the leaf. On
the 2nd trial I observed also few hills that has the same
abnormaliites of growth and yellowing of leaves. What was the cause of
these abnormalities? I hope you can help me out. Thanks

Warm wishes,
Tirso

Dear network members,

there will be a Indian National SRI Workshop, to be held in Hyderabad
during 17-18 November 2006. This might be of interest to some of our
members. I have uploaded the brochure and form of intent into the
file section of our SRI Network Website
[http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/sri-nepal/files/Indian%20National%20SRI%20wo\
rkshop%20/].
For the brochure please find the file "Email Circularfinal.jpg ". In
the same folder you will find a survey for information gathering in
advance of the workshop, called
"ALL-INDIA_SRI_SYMPOSIUM_SURVEY[1].doc"
Please also see the message of Shambu quoted below.

Regards,
Andreas Jenny
Group Moderator

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>Dear Rajendra Upretty and Andreas Jenny
>
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>
>Andreas about the National SRI workshop I am attaching herewith some of the
>details. I am not sure if the file sizes will let all of it through to the
>whole group. I spoke with Vinod Goud of the WWF project and one of the main
>organisers of the event and he mentioned that he would be happy to have
>participation of farmers and researchers from Nepal but will be constrained
>with regard to travel support. Local hospitality of the participants can be
>arranged and may not be a problem. If any one from the Nepal Yahoogroup is
>interested they could get in touch with Vinod confirming their arrangement.
>
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>
>with warm regards
>
>Shambu

Dear sir,

Happy diwali,this is a great Indian festival.Now i had
developed a new system aerobic rice culture.Here rice is transplanted
and directly sown on ridges.land prepration is done by forming ridges
and furrows and there is savings of 50% savings on water and labour

yours
gopal

Dear sir,

       Happy diwali,this is a great Indian festival.Now i had
developed a new system aerobic rice culture.Here rice is transplanted
and directly sown on ridges.land prepration is done by forming ridges
and furrows and there is savings of 50% savings on water and labour

yours
gopal

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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

____________________________________________
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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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

____________________________________________
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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Dear Colleagues,

welcome to the recent new members of this group! It would be nice to
hear from you, so that we know who you are and what you are involved
in. Please give us a brief introduction. Thanks!

I was wondering how the summer SRI season was for you? What were the
high points, what were the low points? Has there been an increase in
farmers and areas under SRI in Nepal? How did you promote SRI?

Looking forward to some postings.

Yours,
Andreas Jenny
Group Moderator

Dear Colleagues,

welcome to the recent new members of this group! It would be nice to
hear from you, so that we know who you are and what you are involved
in. Please give us a brief introduction. Thanks!

I was wondering how the summer SRI season was for you? What were the
high points, what were the low points? Has there been an increase in
farmers and areas under SRI in Nepal? How did you promote SRI?

Looking forward to some postings.

Yours,
Andreas Jenny
Group Moderator

Dear colleagues,

I started to promote SRI to our farmer partners in our country
Philippines. I found it so difficult to sell the SRI method to some
farmers.

Few days ago,I established a demonstration farm in one of our area. So
far,the result is good and newly transplanted seedling looks healthy.
Farmers are observing and waiting the outcome of the demo farm.

I hope you can also share some good ideas that are related to SRI.
Thank you very much.

Your Truly,

Tirso L.Omboy
Mindanao,Philippines

Dear Uprety sir,

I think your idea is good. This is one of the best ways to disseminate
the SRI technology all over Nepal. If I come across some organizations
who have farmers/group tour, then I will definitely divert their
attention towards Morang. Good luck in your endeavour.

Regards,
Suresh.
NARDF.

Hello,

This email message is a notification to let you know that
a file has been uploaded to the Files area of the sri-nepal
group.

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   Uploaded by : beeandy2000 <info@...>
   Description : SRI Poster DAO Morang

You can access this file at the URL:
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To learn more about file sharing for your group, please visit:
http://help.yahoo.com/help/us/groups/files

Regards,

beeandy2000 <info@...>

Dear Sir/Madam,

District Agriculture Development Office, Morang, Biratnagar is promoting SRI
(System of Rice Intensification) method within the district and outside. SRI
is a new method of rice cultivation developed in Madagascar, two decades
ago. Now it is already spreading about 30 countries around the world. We are
working to disseminate SRI, for last three years. It would be a  suitable
method to address our food deficit problems. Because by using SRI method, we
can increase rice production without using more inputs and investment. It
will perform better result with local rice seed, less water, less chemical
and without any pesticides. In this way, we can increase our food
production, in same time we can conserve rice bio-diversity and our
environment.

Now, we have several SRI plots in different stages (seeding to harvesting).
If your organization is going to organize any visit (for farmers or
development workers) program then why not you divert your visit toward our
district ? To disseminate SRI in your working areas and our joint efforts
towards its dissemination, will be a right steps towards our betterment.
Especially those organizations who are working in the field of food security
and poverty alleviation, SRI will be a good solution to achieve their
objectives.

DADO Morang welcome you all to visit our SRI performance. For further
information you can visit SRI Homepage
(www.ciifad.cornell.edu/sri/countries/nepal) or write to me in our email
address (dadomorang@...) .

Thank you very much
with regards

Rajendra Uprety
Agriculture Extension Officer
District Agriculture Development Office
Biratnagar, Morang
Nepal.
Phone: 021-521358/526568 (Office), 021-525054 (residence)

Dear SRI colleagues,

today we transplanted our first SRI patch this year in Baasghadi,
Bardiya. Ten days ago we sowed into a dry nursery. This year the
population of green and brown grasshoppers is strikingly strong in
our area, and I was already worrying that they will eat up the
seedlings. We tried to stop them feeding with Neem-Oil (Multi-neem),
but it did not seem to work. In my own nursery I used an old mosquito
net, which worked well to protect the seedlings.

I was just wondering if you fight similar problems this year in your
location, and how you control it.

Best wishes for a successful rice season,

Andreas Jenny
(Group Moderator)

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              Mr. Andreas Jenny
                  Technical Advisor
                  SAGOAL - Tackling Poverty, Changing Lives

         mail:    P.O. Box 1230, Kathmandu, Nepal
       office:    Deva Phulbari Chowk, Nepalgunj, Banke Dist.
          fon:    081 526615  fax:  +977 (0)81 521597
        eMail:    mailto:ajenny@...
   web (priv):    http://www.beeandy.de/

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Dear Mr. Jenny
I have already tried the SRI network website, but needed further information particularly regarding research done in Nepal. If you have any detail document of any such research then it would be of great help. Mr. Sthapit referred me your name regarding the information of SRI. I am a post graduate student conducting a research on SRI in Chitwan.
thank you

Rajeev

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Dear Andreas/Tigi Verghis,
Thanks for nice report of your SRI experiment. You have guessed some cause
behind low difference in yield between SRI and traditional method (in spite
of good vegetative growth/number of tillers). I want to share my experience
regarding this result. As you guess, water stagnation/more than saturation
level, may be one reason, water stagnation decreased root development and
microbial activities within the soil. Besides this, if we delay weeding in
rice field, primary and secondary tillers will be decreased, which are
generally produce large panicle with more grains. In delay weeding
situation, tillers number may be high but later tillers produce small
panicle with fewer grain and don't contribute significantly for higher
yield.

According to your report, you mentioned that tiller numbers was high with
SRI but yield increment is not high according to numbers of tiller. You
didn't mention numbers of fertile tiller, average grains/panicle, these
information will help to conclude more precisely. According to my
experience, timely weeding (proper weeding up to 35 days will be
significantly contribute for higher yield by SRI method), better water
management, more organic matter will be very helpful for higher production.

Tigi Verghis, you are near from my working areas, If you come to visit
Biratnagar, I can arrange a visit to you in our SRI field. By talking more,
we can find out the causal factors and solution in your lacking. Double
transplanting is a popular method of rice farming in our areas too. If
transplanting will delay, farmers use double transplanting, and generally
double transplanting produce more yield compare to single transplanting.
Thanks for shearing your experiences. More in next mail.

with regards
Rajendra Uprety
DADO Morang, Biratnagar
Nepal.

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From: "VerghisFamily (by way of Andreas Jenny)" <info@...>
To: "SRI group Address" <sri-nepal@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Friday, April 28, 2006 10:24 AM
Subject: [sri-nepal] System of Rice Intensification (SRI) - an experiment
carried out at Mazua village, Siliguri


> Dear colleagues,
>
> a friend of mine (Tigi Verghis) did a rice experiment in West Bengal,
> India, which compared 3 rice planting methods, i.e. Single
> transplanting - Double transplanting practise - SRI.
>
> Attached is a summary report. We would appreciate any feedback.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Andreas Jenny
> (Moderator)
>
>
>
> Yahoo! Groups Links
>
>
>
>
>

Dear colleagues,

a friend of mine (Tigi Verghis) did a rice experiment in West Bengal,
India, which compared 3 rice planting methods, i.e. Single
transplanting - Double transplanting practise - SRI.

Attached is a summary report. We would appreciate any feedback.

Thanks,

Andreas Jenny
(Moderator)

• send a short introductory eMail to the SRI network, telling a bit about yourself and ask the group members to supply you with the specific information you need
• log into the SRI Nepal Network website and go to the "File" section. There you will find papers of the recent SRI National workshop at ICIMOD in December 2005. The papers were very good and contained good data
• contact the DAO of Morang, Mr Rajendra Uprety. I think he is person in Nepal with a good deal field experience with SRI. He can probably provide you with some data. His eMail is: Rajendra Uprety <upretyr@...>

Dear Sir,

Thank you very much. Yes I found you through your website. I have download your presentation, too. It describes methodology mainly. But I need outputs. I have already subscribed Nepal SRI- network. I have been visiting the cornell university website. I want from you is the work you have done or been doing on SRI in Nepal. Looking forward to you.

Susmita Dhakal

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Dear colleagues,

when you visit the SRI - Website  http://groups.yahoo.com/group/sri-nepal/
you will see the 'Calendar' feature. I think this is a great
opportunity to anounce any SRI related meetings / trainings / events
to the other members of this group. Why not share your events with
everybody? We might come round to participate / support / network.

It is very easy.

1. Click on the 'Calendar' link on the left:
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/sri-nepal/cal

2. Go to the relevant date and click 'Add'

3. Give name and other details of the event (Time, location, contact
person and details)

4. Click 'Save'

Regards,
Andreas Jenny
[Moderator]