November 2013 - Additions to the SRI-Rice Website
(Uploads to our site and links to online material)
- Latest Research
- Links to Publications
- New Uploads (Our site)
- Videos/Audio
- Slide Presentations
- Photos (Our site)
• SRI-Rice statistics for November 2013: 3,882 unique visitors from 89 countries made 10,800 visits in the SRI website. Total Facebook views: 1,966. Twitter followers: 611
• For additional news see: our New Resources page (news for all of 2013), Twitter, News and Views blog, LinkedIn, YouTube (global), YouTube (India), Slideshare and Picasa photo gallery, or, see news by country
• See November activities of the SRI-Rice Center staff and advisors
News from other 2013 months
In the Press - November 2013
- Helicopter glitch delays central team's Saranda visit [SHG's to get training in SRI]
November 28, 2013, Times of India (Jharkhand, India) - Pertanian Indonesia tak lagi bisa bertumpu pada sapi dan kerbau [Indonesian Deputy Minister of Ag promotes SRI]
November 25, 2013, Kompas, economy section (Indonesia) - Climate-smart farming could help reduce 'emissions gap' - experts
November 17, 2013, Thomson Reuters Foundation (SRI reference re: Kenya: Reporting from Warsaw climate change talks). - Protecting Tanzania's farmers from weather extremes [Climate Smart FAO/Sokoine project can triple yields with SRI.]
November 14, Inter Press Service (Morogoro, Tanzania) - Rice farmers go back to school in Myanmar's Kachin state [SRI continues to move via FFS in Kachin state.
November 11, 2013, Thomson Reuters Foundation (Myanmar) - Farming is now part of CSR [Goa Institute of Management students work with ICAR and KVK on CSR projects that include SRI in Goa]
November 4, 2013, The Hindu (Goa, India)
Blog Posts and Website Articles - acquired during November 2013
- 2013. South farmers introduced to better performing organic rice. Sikkim Now! blog. November 21. [KVK organic SRI training in South Sikkim]
- McCoy, Jillian. 2013. Small grain, big change. 3BL Media website. November 19. [Story about Lotus Foods, a company that imports SRI Rice.]
Latest Research / Journal Articles / Theses - acquired during November 2013
(in order of acquisition. See also complete alphabetized list of journal articles.)
- Handono, S. Y. 2013. Factors Affecting the farmers to still practicing SRI in Malang Regency, Indonesia. Paper presented at the 2nd Asean Academic Society International Conference on Business, Economics and Social Science, November 4-5, in Bangkok, Thailand. (p.32-36) [acquired November 25, 3013]
- Nawi, Nolila Mohd, and Siti Samiha Zainal. 2012. Malaysian paddy farmers' awareness and perception towards System of Rice Intensification (SRI) practices: A preliminary study. Proceedings of the International Conference on Agricbusiness Marketing, June 25-26, Jember, Indonesia. (pp.727-737) [acquired November 25, 3013]
- Naidu, G. Jogi, K. Tejeswara Rao, A. Upendra Rao, and D. Srinivasulu Reddy. 2013. Age of seedlings and planting pattern on grain yield, protein content, NPK uptake and post-harvest nutrient status of rice under SRI. Journal of Academia and Industrial Research 2(6): 334-337 [acquired November 25, 3013]
- Ranjitha, P. Sri, R. Mahender Kumar, and G. Jayasree. 2013. Evaluation of rice (Oryza sativa L.) varieties and hybrids in relation to different nutrient management practices for yield, nutrient uptake and economics in SRI. Annals of Biological Research 4(10): 25-28. [acquired November 7, 2013]
- Gopalakrishnan, Subramaniam, Vadlamudi Srinivas, Meesala Sree Vidya, and Abhishek Rathore. 2013. Plant growth-promoting activities of Streptomyces spp. in sorghum and rice. SpringerPlus 2(1): 1-8. doi:10.1186/2193-1801-2-574 [acquired November 7, 2013]
- Meyyappan, M., M. Ganapathy, M. V. Sriramachandrasekharan, and S. Sujatha. 2013. Economics of weed management practices in System of Rice Intensification (SRI). Journal of Rice Research 6(1): 66-68. [acquired November 7, 2013] [short communication]
- Meyyappan, M., M. Ganapathy, M. V. Sriramachandrasekharan, and S. Sujatha. 2013. Effect of age of seedlings and weed management practices on certain growth parameters of rice under System of Rice Intensification (SRI). Journal of Rice Research 6(1): 53-56. [acquired November 7, 2013]
New Links from our Website to Online Publications (November 2013)
(see also Latest Research directly above and Recent Uploads below for new material on our
site)
- Neate, Paul. 2013. "Sustainable intensification of
rice production in Vietnam," pp. 11-13 in Climate-smart agriculture success stories from farming communities around the world. Wageningen, Netherlands: CGIAR Research Program on Climate Change, Agriculture and Food Security (CCAFS) and the Technical Centre for Agricultural and Rural Cooperation (CTA). [acquired November 21, 2013]
Recent Documents Uploaded on our Website (November 2013)
- Jenkins, Devon, Stephanie Tack, and Erika Styger. 2013. 2nd Peace Corps West Africa System of Rice Intensification (SRI) training of trainers - Kakanitchoé, Ouémé, Republic of Benin, April 29th - May 1st, 2013. System of Rice Intensification website. November 15. (19p., 3.12MB pdf) [Summary report of Peace Corps West Africa training and subsequent activities.]
Videos / Audiofiles (November 2013 Acquisitions)
- Webinar: 2013 (November 14). SRI method of paddy cultivation - Satish Kumar Natarajan. 33:49 min. VMGMART channel, YouTube. [Webinar (audio only) on SRI with Parisudh Eco Concepts Pvt, Ltd.]
Slide Presentations (Primarily PowerPoint) - November 2013 acquistitions)
- [uploaded 11/19/13] Harris-White, Barbara. 2013. Climate Change and Materialities: The Case of Rice in India. Presentation at SRI-Rice Center, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY. November 18. 93 slides.
- [uploaded 11/27/13] Ganguly, Dolon. 2013. Jeevika Development Society - System of Rice Intensification Program. Presentation at SRI-Rice Center, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY. November 25. 11 slides.
Photo Gallery - November 2013 acquistitions)
- New folders uploaded: Guinea
- Folders updated with new material: Afghanistan
