Talk:System of Rice Intensification

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Method
I've removed this from the article as wikipedia is not a how to guide:


 * 1) Any variety suited to the locality ( except deep water rice )6 Kg /Ha
 * 2) Treat seed with Pseudomonas flourescens for one hour and shade dry
 * 3) Spread a polythene sheet
 * 4) Spread 1.5 inch layer of Soil + Sand + Farm Yard Manure mixture uniformly
 * 5) Soak paddy seed overnight in water
 * 6) Spread seeds uniformly and cover with a thin layer of sand followed by some straw
 * 7) Transfer the 12 day old seedlings with soil undisturbed to small trays
 * 8) Plough twice to fine tilth
 * 9) Puddle and level and add 10 tons/Ha of Organic manure
 * 10) Final Levelling using wooden planks and plastering field bunds
 * 11) Drain the field completely and after a few hours mark rows and columns using a marker or coir
 * 12) Plant seedlings at a depth of 1.5 cms from the tray on the days it was removed from the nursery
 * 13) Use a plant spacing of 25x25 cms
 * 14) Maintain moisture but no standing water.
 * 15) Weed using a conoweeder on the 10 day after transplanting
 * 16) Remove manually all weeds not reachable by the rotary weeder
 * 17) Repeat weeding in 10 days interval as much as possible
 * 18) Apply fertilizers as usual
 * 19) Control pests and diseases if threshold level is reached
 * 20) Harvest

Smartse (talk) 03:58, 5 August 2009 (UTC)

I have removed contact information posted in the article. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 132.205.225.125 (talk) 19:28, 23 September 2010 (UTC)

Removed sections
I've removed the following section on rotary weeder as it was all uncited, did not follow the rest of article, and looked more like a how to guide:

--- Rotary weeder: Weed growth will be higher in these fields due to the absence of standing water. But since the rice plants are planted with wider spaces between rows, a rotary weeder can be drawn in between the rows of plants to remove the weeds and also aerate the soil. On the 10 day after planting weeds may not be prominent, but its better to weed so that the weeds do not get a chance to assimilate the nutrients. Modified weeders such as the conoweeder are available. In Kerala, India the technique has been adopted by some people owing to the pressure from the Department of Agriculture and Mithraniketan ( an NGO Krishi Vignan Kendra located at Trivandrum). Failure are attributed to poor water management, non use of rotary weeder and use of older seedlings. ---

Also removed this paragraph from History and main ideas of SRI as it looks like self promotion:

--- To help farmers in efficient and easy weeding, KGVK is now marketing a Single Row Weeder, This innovative Weeder, developed by the Engineers of Usha Martin’s Machinery Division, in close collaboration with KGVK Agriculture professionals and Grassroots Farmers. The new Weeder is robust and well engineered with features, which make the work of Farmers relatively much easier, requiring less effort. ---

Also removed this section as all reported facts were [WP:CITE| uncited] except for a reference that also looked like self promotion:

---Several cases of success are reported in Kerala, India. The program has proven successful in Nellanad Gramapanchayat in Thiruvananthapuram. Agricultural Officers including Sreekala, Sreekumari, and Geethakumari have several cases of success. SRI in the Mountainous region of India in the state of Uttarakhand and HimachalPradesh is being spred by Peoples' Science Institute. Now SRI have been adopted by the Government of Uttarakhand and Himachal Pradesh,More than 20,000 farmers are practicing SRI in these states. In the Drought affected area of India mainly at Bundelkhand region PSI is up-scaling the SRI, Mainly in Four district Damoh, Panna, Chitrakoot and Banda. Great success Have been achieved in Damoh and Panna district of Bundelkhand region. In Kharif season of 2011,In the Tendukhera block of Damoh District, 1300 farmers practiced SRI and the average increase in the income per farmer comes to Rs 18,000. Maximum yield that have been achieved by SRI in the Damoh District is 17 tonne per hectare. average 77% increase in paddy yield have been observed in Panna and chitrakoot district area as compare to traditional method. In Banda District only 47 % increase have been achieved. ---

Sophie Clayton 3 April 2012

Ugly References
The references are completely screwed up. At one point the article had Wikipedia-style references, now they're a bastard mix of wikipedia and manual text. I'm tempted to revert back to an earlier version. Sanpitch (talk) 22:27, 19 February 2013 (UTC)
 * Having confirmed the copy-paste issues you identified, I have reverted to the last version prior to the influx of content by the IP editor who added externally sourced text. --Moonriddengirl (talk) 14:56, 14 March 2013 (UTC)

Copyright problem removed
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Suggestion for inclusion
I have just manually removed previous edit I made to avoid a conflict of interest I have in editing this page. It was under "Evaluating SRI" abd previous text was

"The International Rice Research Institute has published information on the challenges of evaluating SRI stating that "The flexibility in SRI’s definition of practices renders SRI a challenge for evaluation and assessment of adoption." "

If appropriate perhaps another editor could consider if this reference or note about it should be included or not as part of the discussion about evaluating SRI.

Thanks Sophie Clayton (talk) 04:26, 13 August 2013 (UTC)