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News from other years:
In the Press
- SRI
method becoming a hit with Erode district farmers
Dec. 24, 2008, Indopia (Tamil Nadu, India) -
IITs can play major role in changing India
Dec. 22, 2008, The Economic Times (Tamil Nadu India) -
Workshop: Promotion of System Rice Intensification paddy cultivation for
achieving food security
Dec. 17, SRI Learning Alliance Workshop - New system
of farming in jail
Dec. 17, Kerala Online - Paddy
farmers reap success with new cultivation system
Dec. 16, the Hindu Business Line (Tamil Nadu, India) -
Rice intensification technology gaining popularity in India
Dec. 15, Newspost Online World (also in newKerala.com) -
Central expert takes stock of new paddy plantation system
Dec. 14, North East Watch (Assam, India) - Six ryots implementing SRI method honoured
Dec. 14, The Hindu (Orissa, India) - Rice
paddy harvest in Bongaigaon District
Dec. 11, North East Watch (Assam, India) - Special rice
intensification fund needed
Dec. 9, Sify.com (India) -
Centre urged to create 'SRI promotional Fund'
Dec. 7, ChennaiOnline (Tamil Nadu, India) -
So shall your reap: New tech sows a seed for larger rice harvest
Dec. 6, The Financial Express (Tamil Nadu, India) - India: Experts
suggest new methods to attain production target
Dec. 5, Oryza
[similar article: New approach to meet rice production target Dec. 4, The Hindu (Tamil Nadu, India)] -
48 year old woman stole the SRI show
Dec. 3, Coimbatore Live (Tamil Nadu, India) [also reported in Express Buzz and Indian Express] - National
symposium on SRI
Dec. 2, Coimbatore Live (Tamil Nadu) -
Rethinking rice production practices
Dec. 2, StarTribune.com (USA) -
SRI can help achieve goal of food security in India
Dec. 1, ChennaiOnline (Tamil Nadu, India) -
Intensive farming brings rewards
Nov 27, Jakarta Post (Indonesia) - System
of Rice Intensification picking up
Nov. 20, The Hindu (Tamil Nadu, India) - Science
boosts rice yields
Nov. 20, The Jakarta Post (Indonesia) - Record average productivity kuruvai crop in state
Nov. 19, The Hindu (Tamil Nadu, India) - SRI yields
encouraging result
Nov. 14, The Hindu (Orissa, India) -
UGM to develop rice intensification
Nov. 14, Tempointeractive (Indonesia) - NGO on mission to increase food production
Nov. 13, The Statesman (West Bengal, India) -
"Go Organic" campaign launched with P20M
Nov. 6, Inquirer.net (Philippines) - DA, BWSM, Alaminos city mayor ink MoU for organic fertilizer project with 2
NGOs
Nov. 5, news.balita.ph (Philippines) -
Govt to teach farmers new methods to boost rice yield
Oct. 28, Phnom Penh Post (Cambodia) -
Cambodia teaches farmers to boost yield
Oct. 28, Financial Express (Bangladesh) -
ADB ready to provide $30 m loan for RI`s rice development
Oct. 22, ANTARA News (Indonesia) -
Agro - revolutionaries push cause
Oct. 10, Phnom Penh Post (Cambodia) -
TN betters own record in paddy productivity
Sept. 30, The Financial Express (Tamil Nadu, India) - Many
Ryots Adopt System of Rice Intensification
Sept. 23, The Hindu (Tamil Nadu, India) - Adopt latest technology
Sept. 7, The Hindu (Tamil Nadu, India) - Irabot Foundation sets
up SRI
Sept. 4, E-Pao (reprinted from the Sangai Express) (India) - Un
ministre malgache appelle à redoubler d'efforts pour stabiliser la
production alimentaire
Sept. 2, L'Agence de Presse Xinhua (China) - Plan to
cover samba paddy on 1.02 lakh hectares
Aug. 29, The Hindu (India) - Kuruvai
paddy crop prospects good
Aug. 27, The Hindu (India) - Emphasis
on "Precision Farming
Aug. 11, The Hindu (India) - 15
District Collectors to meet in Madurai
Aug. 11, The Hindu (India) - Achieving
more with less: SRI - A new way of rice cultivation:
Two new videos from the World Bank Institute - System Intensification to Increase Rice Production
July 29, Addis Fortune (Ethiopia) - More for Less
July 22, Deccan Herald (India) - Le sommet du SRI à Madagascar
July 5, L'Express de Madagascar - New rice
system produces higher yields
July 1, Vientiane Times (Laos) - India: A New Way of Cultivating
Rice
News and Broadcast (World Bank) - India can produce more rice through 'SRI': Experts
June 21, Media for Freedom - A
professor's food revolution starts with rice
June 18, International Herald Tribune -
Food revolution that starts with rice
June 17, New York Times (also reprinted in the Deccan Herald [The rice revolution] on July 1 and the Boston Globe [Food revolution that starts with rice] on June 17) - Transplanter is a boon
June 10, 2008, The Hindu (Tamil Nadu, India) - State to introduce SRI farming
June 7, 2008, The Hindu (Orissa, India) - Boost to rice, pulses
June 7, 2008, The Hindu (Karnataka, India) - SRI
method brings high yields
May 23, 2008, The Hindu (Tamil Nadu, India) -
Badal asks Centre to include state in food security mission
May 17, 2008, Financial Express (see also article in Punjab Newspaper) -
…More shall you reap
May 3, 2008, Outlook Business (India) - SRI
implementation in all paddy fields in Tiruchi district
April 26, The Hindu (Tamil Nadu, India) - Solving the rice shortage the PASALI way
April 24, 2008, ABS-CBN News Online (Philippines) - Amid food crisis rice land converted into industrial zone
April 11, 2008, ABS-CBN News Online (Philippines) - SRI needs a second look
April 3, 2008, Manila Times (Philippines) - System of Rice Intensification - Optimising production with fewer
inputs
April 7, Trade Observatory -
Video shows how to increase rice yields
March 21, 2008, Phnom Penh Post (Cambodia)
From the Blogosphere (2008)
- Rubber, GM
debate and rice intensification
Dec. 16, Mera Khet (India) -
SRI: Failure still counts as success
Dec. 2, Ecology, technology and social change (Philippines) -
SRI: Expansion is essential
Dec. 2, SRI in Vietnam - System
of Rice Intensification
Nov. 22, Vannak's Blog (South Korea) - Reports
show less water used in organic farming
Nov. 14, Algernon Carter's homepage - Promoting
SRI among rice farmers
Nov. 8, Ecology, technology and social change (Philippines) - DA Secretary Yap commits to convert 400,000 hectares of ricelands to organic
production
Nov. 7, Ecology, technology and social change (Philippines) - Food
revolution through SRI
Nov. 2, AsiaDRRHA (Philippines) - System
of Rice Intensification (SRI)
Nov. 1, Ecology, Technology and Social Change (Philippines) - Oxfam - Food on the table and savings on hand Nov. 1, Food for Thought (USA)
- Record
Tillering with Indigenous Rice Varieties
Oct. 31, SRI Timkbuktu Blog (Mali) - Govt to teach farmers new methods to boost rice yield
October 29, Welcome to Cambodia (Cambodia) -
ADB ready to provide $3 million loan for RI`s rice development
October 22, Cempaka Nature (Indonesia) - SRI
Timbuktu Blog
updated Sept. 7 (Mali) - SRI
Update
August 29, Surin Farmer Support (Thailand) - SRI
August 13, Surin Farmers Support (Thailand) - System
of Rice Intensification
(August 5) and
I missed this..
(June 19) - Gaddeswarup's Blog (Australia) - SRI
Timbuktu Blog
launched - July 31 (Mali) - India
can produce more rice through 'SRI': Experts
June 21, News on India -
System of Rice Intensification - Reblogged
June 20, Resource Management in Asia-Pacific News -
A professor's food revolution starts with rice
June 20, Farmers' Blogs from Around the World (scrap-blog) -
What is SRI - System of Rice Intensification?
June 17, Entertaining Research (India?) - Training on Self-reliant Development
May 16, Yim Sok Sophors (Cambodia) - Happening Changes in India
May 19, Chetan's Web Scribblings (India blog) - Science
Community Divided over New Way to Increase Rice Yield
April 11, Leland's Living Room (Philippine)
SRI Updates / Newsletters (2009)
Check the following sites directly for their additions- SRI Update Series
- SRI Update #19, October 7, 2008
- SRI Update #18, August 26, 2008
- SRI Update #17, July 23, 2008
- SRI Update #16, March 15, 2008
- SRI Update #15, January 15, 2008
- SRI Update Archives, 2005-2007
- SRI Newsletter (India) - supported by the WWF-ICRISAT Project
- SRI Newsletter No.6 (April-May, 2009)
- SRI Newsletter No.5 (February-March, 2009)
- SRI Newsletter No.4 (January, 2009)
- See the SRI India website for 2008 editions
Videos / Audiofiles (2008)
GENERAL
- (Audio) 2008 Reports of gains bring attention to rice-growing methods - July 7, VOA News (radio broadcast)
- (Video) 2008. Improving Rice Productivity and Achieving Water Savings is intended for policy and decision makers, managers of development projects, and stakeholders involved in agriculture, water resource and irrigation management. (12 minutes)
CAMBODIA
- Lalo, Corinne. 2008 (November 6). Systéme de Riziculture Intensive- Cambodge: Le riz du l'espoir. French language video on Tefy Saina website.
- Audio: (Khmer language broadcast on VOA.) Soth, Kong. 2008 (September 17): Neighbors Survey 'Rice Intensification' Gains. Audio podcast on Voice of America. Khmer audio aired 16 September 2008 (1.20 MB) - Download (MP3) Khmer audio aired 16 September 2008 (1.20 MB) - Listen (MP3)
- Audio: (Khmer language broadcast on VOA Khmer) Sothea, Ros. 2008 (March 18) Agency Pushes to Boost Rice Harvest Yield Khmer audio aired March 18 (1.21MB) - Download (MP3) Khmer audio aired March 18 (1.21MB) - Listen (MP3)
INDIA
- Mithranikethan, Vellanad and Trivandrum. 2008 (Sept 26). Paddy cultivation using SRI Technology. Kissan Media Division of Kissan Kerala (on YouTube) 15:20 min.
- 2008. Sukshethram's Videos on YouTube: 16 videoclips about SRI in India, including land preparation, transplanting, motorized and non-motorized weeders, etc.in India
- 2008 (Aug.11). System of Rice Intensification. Umagenes channel on YouTube. 4:42 min.
- 2008. (Aug 6). Power Weeder for Rice SRI Cultivation. anushamlakshmi collection on YouTube. 0:33 min.
- 2008 (July 14). SRI Implementation in Pitchavaram Village, Tamil Nadu.(on YouTube) Post-Tsunami Health, Education and Livelihood Project (HELP), Cuddalore, Tamil Nadu, India. 2:49 min.
MADAGASCAR
- Duriez, Nicholas. 2008 (December 16). SRI, Système de riziculture intensive. French language radio broadcast on Radio France Internationale. 19:30 minutes. (audio only)
- Lalo, Corinne. 2008 (October 24). Le riz pourra-t-il sauver le monde de la faim?: French language video (on TF1 - Les Journaux télévisés en vidéo)
- 2008. Système de Riziculture Intensive (SRI): French language video (on YouTube) by the French journalist, Corinne Lalo (7:58 minutes)
PHILIPPINES
- 2008. Achieving more with less: SRI - A new way of rice cultivation: Two videos prepared by the World Bank Institute 1) For policy and decision makers, managers of development projects, and stakeholders involved in agriculture, water resource and irrigation management. (12 minutes) 2) "How-to" Guide for Farmers and Practitioners Based on an application in the Philippines Audience: It is intended for farmers and practitioners who are interested to see how SRI is applied on the ground. (15 minutes)
- 2008. Alternative Rice Planting Method Key to Self-Sufficiency: Tagalog language video about SRI in the Philippines.Videographer/Producer: Alecks P. Pabico. Video editor: Francis Ventura. (10:25 minutes) 26.8 MB. (Note: scroll down through blog to get to video)
VIETNAM
- 2008 (Nov. 13) Vietnamese language video about SRI in Vietnam. (30.05 minutes). Available from the SRI Vietnam website, which provides information about a collaborative SRI initiative by Oxfam Quebec, the Plant Protection Department (PPD), and the Centre for Sustainable Rural Development (SRD) with funding from Oxfam America.
