Vikas Maitri
Voluntary Development Society in Jharkhand
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www.vikasmaitri.org |
website for rural and tribal development |
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Voluntary Development Society in Jharkhand |
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Women and Human Rights in Jharkhand Vikas Maitri is organising a 3 day workshop on women and Human Rights in Jharkhand beginning 17 January 2007 at Vikas Maitri premises. About 50 women activists are likely to participate in the workshop. The workshop aims at giving a forum for human rights activists specially women to think about various strategies to be adopted for preventing human rights violations in this region. In Jharkhand the situation of human right violations is critical. With the transformation of tradition society and the phenomenon of globalization the human right situation is deteriorating rapidly. Mrs. Lakshmi Singh former Chief Secretary of Jharkhand Government and Chairperson of State Women's Commission has kindly consented to inaugurate the workshop. Introducing "System of Rice Intensification" System of Rice Intensification (SRI) was developed in the 80s by private initiatives in Madagascar. In this method of rice cultivation, indigenous tropical tall varieties of rice are selected for transplantation. The method yields large root volume of plant, profuse and strong tillering, big panicles and higher grain weight. The characteristics of this method of rice plantation: none puddling of water, young nursery plant and design of spacing of plants. I had heard about this method by a foreign visitor in the year 1999. He visited our rice fields and was very much impressed by our own system of rice transplantation which we called "directional double row planting" which we developed in the early 80s. The rain fall condition of our country is different from Madagascar but we decided to experiment with this method this year. We had some discussion with local farmers about the new method and they reacted that since the watering in the fields is heavier the young plant would not survive. The SRI system assumes that rice is a non aquatic plant. However, we suggested for earlier transplantation with control of artificial irrigation. In cooperation with the farmers and their women we have succeeded in transplanting in a field prepared especially for this purpose. Let us see and watch how it comes up.
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