T8_18: Trainers informally suggesting ideas to a local to maximise backyard crop yield

Chargheri 8th Trip dated 19th-Sep-09: As the trainers explain how this particular backyard could be (and can still be) made lush with agricutural products INCLUDING rice. Here we can see that stray rice seeds that were washed out by Aila waters from the homes into these open backyards have taken root without any effort from the land owner. With some effort, this significantly large backyard could have yielded an assortment of agricultural products by now. However the land owner was so far sceptic in taking up any agriculture work after Aila - a mental blcok that many other farmers have fallen victim to.

They also narrate how the rich growth in each strand also prove the need to adopt some optimum scientific spacing for crops (varying from conventional techniques) have proven to give much higher crop yields per unit area.

As far as I learnt from Narayan-da, conventionally the farmers place a few rice strands every 6 inches while SRT (expands to Superior Rice Technique or something like that) advises placing a single strand and also increasing the spacing by almost 3 times. It is apparently proven by results all around that each strand produces many times more than the conventionally placed strands and overall yield per area is increased.

However farmers need to be urged to adopt it for the first time. Some of them find it hard to get over the fear of getting low yield.

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