%0 Conference Paper
%A Kumar, R M
%A Surekha, K
%A Gopalakrishnan, S
%A Padmavathi, C H
%A Latha, P C
%A Ravindra Babu, V
%B Scientific Conference “Innovative Research for Organic Agriculture 3.0” Organized by ISOFAR, NCOF and TIPI
%C 19th Organic World Congress, New Delhi, India
%D 2017
%F icrisat:10680
%K System of Rice Intensification (SRI), rice productivity, soil health, microbial activity, Rice
%P 477-482
%T Influence of different methods of rice (Oryzae sativa.l) cultivation –  SRI vs NTP on microbes, soil health and grainyeild
%U http://oar.icrisat.org/10680/
%X System of Rice Intensification (SRI) developed in Madagascar, a systems approach to increasing  rice productivity with less reliance on expensive external inputs, is gaining momentum all over the  world including India. IIRR has conducted a long term experiments in sandy clay loam soils  (2008-09 to 2010-11) to compare the organic and inorganic sources of nutrients for its productivity  and soil health in SRI vs Best Management Practice (BMP) of Normal puddled Transplanted rice.  The superior performance of SRI with higher microbial biomass corbon (17.2 %) coupled with  higher dehydrogenase activity (ug TPFg-1soil 24h-1) with SRI (182) as compared to BMP  indicating soil health improvement. SRI method with organic and inorganic nutrient application  yielded 15.66 to 22.76 %mean higher grain yield in wet and dry seasons respectively as compared  to BMP indicating a major factor contributing to positive SRI crop results is that its practices  (young seedling, wider spacing, inter cultivation with weeder, saturation of soil use of organics)  respectively taken together, create conditions in which beneficial microbes prosper due to well  aeration and improves the soil health.
%Z This article is part of the speacil issue on Innovative Research for Organic 3.0 Volume 1  Proceedings of the Scientific Track at the Organic World Congress 2017 (Thünen Report 54)