An Update on CSISA-BD (IRRI)

Presented by

M A Saleque
Senior Associate Scientist IRRI CSISA Project Coordinator

April 11, 2013

Project objectives
The project aims to increase household income, food security, and livelihoods. A total of 60,000 households (mostly marginal and poor) are targeted to increasing income by US $350 per year by the end of the project. Another 300,000 households are targeted to benefit from project activities indirectly through capacity building and dissemination of information.

Summary of IRRI Activities

Summary progress (IRRI)

Activity (No. of farmers) Participatory adoption trials Farmers training Field days/exposure visit Year 1 4,592 3,168 2,335 Year 2 Year 3 (Planned) 5,014 4,507 6,406 8,811 5,615 9,225

IRRI interventions
Improved rice varieties
Short duration Salt-tolerant, submergence tolerant Aromatic and fine grain varieties Best-bet agronomic practices Alternate wetting and drying practices Urea deep placement Site-specific nutrient management practices Application of nutrient manager Rice mustard rice Rice potato rice Rice sunflower Rice mungbean Rice fish

Improved crop management practices

Improved nutrient

management practices Increased cropping intensity (Integrated with CIMMYT and WF)

AWD in farmers field (Boro), Faridpur

UDP in farmers field (Boro), Faridpur

Short duration BINA dhan7 in farmers field (Aman), Rangpur

Table: Yield and gross margin of short duration Aman varieties (BINA dhan7). Aman 2012.
No. of Area (ha) Yield (t/ha) Gross Farmers margin (US$/ha) Faridpur 11 1.3 5.57 0.24 321 52 Jessore 44 6.7 5.27 0.07 278 57 Khulna 128 16.7 5.79 0.05 268 30 Mymensingh 126 16.3 4.57 0.06 378 15 Rangpur 105 21.2 4.40 0.08 513 17 Hubs

Mustard in rice-mustard-rice cropping systems

GM (US$/ha)
526 + 541 =

1,067

475
Jul Aug Sep

+
Oct Nov

590
Dec Jan

+
Feb

529
Mar Apr May

=
Jun

1,594

Field day Field day

Field day

BRRI dhan54 a salt-tolerant rice (Aman) in farmers fields, Khulna

Salinity monitoring in canal water, Patuakhali

Table: Yield of salt tolerant Aman varieties in farmers fields. Aman 2012.
Varieties Growth duration 120 148 125 132 Patuakhali Khulna

Yield (t/ha) SE BINA dhan8 BRRI dhan41 BRRI dhan53 BRRI dhan54 5.45 0.40 7.03 0.09 6.26 0.41 4.86 0.14 4.65 0.05 4.09 0.08 5.49 0.04

BR23

150

4.37 0.08

Best-bet agronomic practice in farmers fields

BRRI dhan50 in farmers field, Jessore

Table: Yield and gross margin of BRRI dhan50 and popular MV in farmers fields. Boro 2012.
Varieties
BRRI dhan28 BRRI dhan50

Jhenaidah
Yield (t/ha) GM (US$/ha)

Jessore
Yield (t/ha) GM (US$/ha)

6.49 5.24

818 1,099

7.58 7.55

1,107 1,690

Minikit
Kajollota LSD0.05

6.86
6.45 0.82

1,021
804 34

7.29
NS

1,142
230

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NPK

-P -N

2012B-BA-18

SSNM plots at vegetative stage in Kalapara, Patuakhali

Farmers participatory village level soil fertility mapping for field-specific nutrient management, Jessore

Farmers training in the current year: 8,861 Male : 7,304, Female: 1,557

Most promising technologies (IRRI)

Short duration BINA dha7 and BRRI dhan49 Aman varieties in Jessore, Mymensingh, Faridpur, Khulna and Rangpur to allow a room for third crop. High quality market demand BRRI dhan50 as a fine grain rice variety in Boro season in Jessore. Salt-tolerant BRRI dhan54, BRRI dhan41 and BINA dhan8 Aman varieties in Patuakhali and Khulna. Site-specific nutrient management in Jessore.