October 2013 - Additions to the SRI-Rice Website
(Uploads to our site and links to online material)
- New Uploads (Our site)
- Videos/Audio
• SRI-Rice statistics for October 2013:SRI-Rice statistics for October 2013: 4,325 unique visitors from 98 countries made 12,485 visits in the SRI website. Total Facebook views: 2,488. Twitter followers: 605
• For additional news see: our New Resources page, Twitter, News and Views blog, LinkedIn, YouTube (global), YouTube (India), Slideshare and Picasa photo gallery, or, see news by country
• See September activities of the SRI-Rice Center staff and advisors
News from other 2013 months
In the Press - October 2013
- Tamil Nadu Agricultural University experiments with drip irrigation in paddy cultivation
October 17, 2013, The Times of India (Tamil Nadu, India) - Tanzania: Rice growers in Kilombero smile all the way to the bank
October 13, 2013, Tanzania Daily News (Tanzania) - Alih fungsi lahan pertanian di Kab. Bandung capai 30 hektar per tahun [A SRI harvest festival on Oct. 8 in Bojongsari, Bandung regency, highlighted SRI yield increases. There are 300 ha. of SRI in 10 districts of Bandung Regency]
October 8, 2013, Pikiran Rakyat (Bandung, Indonesia) - Drought-hit Bihar unlikely to achieve record paddy target [Though drought will reduce rice yield, Bihar had 87 lakh ton in 2012-13 thanks to SRI method.]
October 4, 2013, Daily News (NY, Re:Bihar, India)
Blog Posts and Website Articles - acquired during October 2013
- Bhatt, Yogesh. 2013. Small is beautiful- Impact of SRI and agro center at village level. Yoghesh Bhatt blog. October 27. [See section on SRI impact in Dangs and Vansada to see how data collection is documenting yield increases and other benefites.]
- Uphoff, Norman. 2013. New approaches are needed for another Green Revolution. SciDev.net, South Asia section, October 16. (reprinted by AllAfrica)
- lvcsouthasia. 2013. Bihar's agroecological farmers host international farmers' delegation. La Via Campesina South Asia - Peasants for Food Sovereignty blog. October 8. [La Via Campesina and GM Free Bihar hosted farmers from Karnataka, Brazil and Haiti to visit Nalanda SRI farmers and others.]
- NewsReach magazine, March-April edition, volume 13 , no. 2. [Entire edition is devoted to SRI.] [url accessed October 1]
- Policy consultation on System of Rice Intensification. 13(2): 2-13.
- Banerjee, Soumik. Indigenous paddy varieties under SRI and conventional practices: A performance study. 13(2): 14-30
- Kumar, Amit, and Amit Saha. Engagement of the state in the promotion of SRI: Understanding the process.13(2): 31-49
- Chopra, Ravi. All you'd like to know about SRI in India and more. 13(2): 50-52 [url accessed October 1]
Latest Research / Journal Articles / Theses - acquired during October 2013
(in order of acquisition. See also complete alphbetized list of journal articles.)
- Uphoff, Norman. 2013. Rethinking the concept of 'yield ceiling' for rice: Implications of the System of Rice Intensification (SRI) for agricultural science and practice. Journal of Crop and Weed 9(1): 1-19. [Acquired October 14, 2013]
- Choudhary, R.L., Dinesh Kumar, Y. S. Shivay, Anjali Anand, and Lata Nain. 2013. Yield and quality of rice (Oryza sativa) hybrids grown by SRI method with and without plant growth promoting rhizobacteria. Indian Journal of Agronomy 58(3): 430-433. [acquired October 4, 2013]
New Links from our Website to Online Publications (October 2013)
(see also Latest Research directly above and Recent Uploads below for new material on our
site)
- 2013. SRI-LMB Newsletter. Vol. 1, Issue 1 (4p. pdf; a biannual newsletter of the SRI Lower Mekong River Basin Project. This issue covers the launch of the project together with the Asian Centre of Innovation for Sustainable Agriculture Intensification (ACISAI) Center at the Asian Institute of Technology in Bangkok during April 2013.) [acquired October 2013]
Recent Documents Uploaded on our Website (October 2013)
- Amiri Larijani, Bahman. 2013. Report of SRI method demonstration at farmer’s field under PTD project in Iran (2013) . System of Rice Intensification website. (6p., 222KB pdf) [uploaded October 2013]
- Styger, Erika. 2012. Tanzania NAFAKA Project - Summary trip report (May 8 - May 20, 2012): Evaluation of System of Rice Intensification (SRI) Program. System of Rice Intenisification website. (11p.,301KB pdf) [uploaded October 2013. Note: This is a 2012 document].
Videos / Audiofiles (October 2013 Acquisitions)
- Video: 2013 (October 1). Wheat Intensification (Eng). 4:38 min. Produced by the IPM program of FAO and Aghanistan's Ministry of Irrigation, Agriculture and Livestock (MAIL). Shafiullah Baryalai channel, YouTube. [Overview of the the System of Wheat Intensification experience of the MAIL/FAO IPM Program in Aghanistan.]
- Video: 2013 (October 1). Madagascar's alternative rice farming. 2:53 min. Produced by Deutsche Welle. Vid-life.org. [This video uses footage from videos made by FloodedCellar videos in conjunction with IFAD and SRI-Rice.]
