PADDY IN DABRA MADHYA PRADESH

 PADDY IN DABRA -

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Land use classification
Unit – Laky ha.
6 Fallow land (current + old) 10.24 3.35
7 Net area sown 150.48 48.92
5 Cultivable waste land  11.70 3.80
Other uncultivated land  16.73 5.44
excluding fallow land
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Land not available for  32.00 10.41
cultivation
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2 Forest 86.13 28.00
1 Geog

The System of Rice Intensification (SRI), developed in Madagascar over a 20-year period and synthesized
in the early 1980s (Stoop et al 2002; Uphoff et al 2002), offers opportunities to researchers and farmers
to expand their understanding of potentials already existing in the rice genome. The SRI methodology for
raising rice production makes three main changes in irrigated rice cultivation: transplanting younger
seedlings, preferably 8-14 days old before the plants enter their fourth phyllochron of growth, planting
the seedlings singly rather than in clumps of 3-6 plants, and keeping the paddy soil moist but not
continuously saturated during the plants' vegetative growth phase.
               System of rice intensification is referred as a set of practices rather than a technology based
upon a number of insights in to how to create the best growing environments    for rice plants as
compared to other improved methods of rice cultivation under limited water resources.