The document summarizes the proceedings of the National Colloquium on System of Crop Intensification held in Patna, Bihar, India. It provides an overview of JEEViKA, a poverty alleviation program led by rural women in Bihar covering 650,000 families across 5,500 villages. The colloquium discussed strategies to scale up systems of rice intensification (SRI), wheat intensification (SWI), and other crop intensification systems which have led to 40-85% increase in yields. It also discussed opportunities for smallholder farmers to receive carbon credits through use of SRI and called for a community-based extension mechanism and research to develop SRI protocols.

1. 1 NATIONAL COLLOQUIUM ON SYSTEM OF CROP INTENSIFICATION (SCI) National Colloquium on SCI, Patna 8/11/2011 Organized by BIHAR RURAL LIVELIHOODS PROMOTION SOCIETY (BRLPS) and convened in Patna, Bihar State, March 1, 2011

2. JEEViKA POVERTY ERADICATION led by RURAL WOMEN Income enhancement through sustainable livelihoods – farm & non-farm sectors Socio-economic empowerment of rural poor households in Bihar Access to social protection, including food security & absorption of health shocks Self-managed & financially sustainable community institutions 11th August 2010 2 Government of Bihar

4. Support VO

5. Secure linkages with Govt line depts, finanncialinsts, markets, etc

6. Audit of groups

8. Strengthening of SHGs

9. Appraisal and disbursement of CIF

10. Social action

11. Inclusion of POP

13. Monitoring of group activity

14. Group-level poverty reduction plan

15. Development of family investment plan (Micro Plan)SHG PG 11th August 2010 3 Government of Bihar

17. 5,500 villages in 55 Blocks of 9 districts, namely Gaya, Nalanda, Muzaffarpur, Madhubani, Purnia, Khagaria, Saharsa, Supaul and Madhepura

18. Priority to benefiting poor and womenProject Spread

20. Saturation approach.

21. Use of Community Cadre for scaling up.

22. High investment on Capacity Building

23. Community Livelihoods Fundmanaged by women

24. Food Security Fund

25. Health Risk Fund

26. Focused interventions in agriculture - SRI, SWI & PVSP-

27. In-situfood security

28. Growth engines for coming out of poverty

29. Convergence & Linkageswith Government programmes, banks, etc.11th August 2010 5 Government of Bihar

30. Community Institutions at a Glance No. of villages covered : 2,693 No. of SHGs formation : 29,545 No. of HH part of SHGs : 354,540 No. of VO formed : 1,452 No. of Community Cadre : 6,091 Total Savings (in Rs.) : 19.87 Crores Total Inter-loaning (in Rs.) : 64.23 Crores 11th August 2010 6 Government of Bihar

31. Vulnerability MappingFlood & Drought Flood Prone Flood & Drought Prone Drought Prone Source: Disaster Management Department, GOB 7 8/11/2011 5:04 PM

32. 8/11/2011 8 KEY STRATEGIES National Colloquium on SCI, Patna

34. System of Wheat Intensification (SWI)

35. System of Crop Intensification (SCI)

36. Rapeseed

37. Green Gram

38. Vegetable

39. Tomato

40. Brinjal

41. ChilliNational Colloquium on SCI, Patna

42. System of Rice Intensification (SRI) 8/11/2011 National Colloquium on SCI, Patna 10

43. SYSTEM OF RICE INTENSIFICATION 8/11/2011 11 National Colloquium on SCI, Patna

44. Status of SRI 8/11/2011 National Colloquium on SCI, Patna 12

45. SEED TREATMENT & NURSERY BED PREPARATION 8/11/2011 13 National Colloquium on SCI, Patna

46. 8/11/2011 14 FIRST WEEDING OPERATION BY CONO WEEDER National Colloquium on SCI, Patna

47. 8/11/2011 15 ROOT DIFFERENCE BETWEEN SRI & TRADITIONAL National Colloquium on SCI, Patna

48. 8/11/2011 16 HARVEST & COMPARISON BETWEEN TRADITIONAL & SRI National Colloquium on SCI, Patna

49. System of Wheat Intensification (SWI) 8/11/2011 National Colloquium on SCI, Patna 17

50. Status of SWI 8/11/2011 National Colloquium on SCI, Patna 18

51. 8/11/2011 19 National Colloquium on SCI, Patna

52. 8/11/2011 20 National Colloquium on SCI, Patna

53. 8/11/2011 21 System of Crop Intensification (SCI) Seed sorting & treatment : Warm water, cow urine, jaggery, vermi-compost, fungicide Seed sowing/transplanting : 2 pre-germinated seed / 8-12 days seedling used for shallow transplantation Weeding/hoeing : At 15-20 day intervals Soil treatment : Vermi-compost & trichoderma Yield increase: 40-85% more National Colloquium on SCI, Patna

54. Status of SCI 8/11/2011 National Colloquium on SCI, Patna 22

55. Status of SCI-Vegetable 8/11/2011 National Colloquium on SCI, Patna 23

56. 8/11/2011 24 Carbon Credits Agriculture emits 10-12% GHGs to atmosphere GHGs are CH4, N2O, CO2 CH4 is 25 times more harmful than CO2 N20 is 298 times more harmful than CO2 Traditional paddy cultivation is done on anaerobic anaerobic that emits more CH4 and N2O SRI is an aerobic method of paddy cultivation Emits 4 times less CH4 and 5 times less N2O Research done in Sri Lanka, China, Nepal & Vietnam Why shouldn’tSRI farmers get carbon credits? National Colloquium on SCI, Patna

57. 8/11/2011 25 EXPECTATIONS How to reach the smallholders (small, marginal & landless farmers)? Community-based extension mechanism – for scaling-up SCI (SRI, SWI, and others) SCI opportunities for a majority of the crops with natural farming Systematic scientific research to develop SRI protocol for Carbon Credit compensation to smallholders National Colloquium on SCI, Patna

58. 8/11/2011 26 THANK YOU National Colloquium on SCI, Patna