August 2014 - Additions to the SRI-Rice Website
(Uploads to our site and links to online material)
- Latest Research
- Publication Links
- New Uploads (Our site)
• SRI-Rice Statistics for August 2014: 3,936 unique visitors (4,160 last month) from from 102 96 countries (96 last month) viewed 10,277 pages (11,277 last month) on the SRI website. Total Facebook views: 3,748 (2857 last month). Twitter followers: 884 (30 new this month). Total YouTube views: 39,428 (1,960 new this month). We have 385 presentations (all time) uploaded on Slideshare site, and 579 papers in our Refworks research database.
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• For news about our program see: SRI-Rice Center news
News from other months
In the Press - August 2014
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Innovative Bihar farmer makes it to South Africa
August 26, 2014, Business Standard (Bihar, India) - 60,000 acres to be brought under samba in Ariylaur [About 95 villages has been identified for developing clusters under SRI. ]
August 24, 2014, The Hindu (Tamil Nadu, India) - Menjaga bumi mbay dengan pertanian alami [Farmers in Mbay on the island of Flores carry out organic SRI]
August 21, 2014, Mogabay (Bali, Indonesia) - Farmer reaps fruitful yield through SRI method
August 21, 2014, The Hindu (Tamil Nadu, India) - New rice cultivation methodology can help crops tolerate drought: Norman Uphoff
August 12, 2014, Live Mint & The Wall Street Journal - 'Farmers must adopt new techniques [ClimaRice and Climaadapt study shows SRI fields emit 20-25% less methane. Researchers have also formulated microbial technologies like cyanobacteria, methanotrophs to supplement chemical fertilizers and mitigate GHG fluxes.]
August 9, 2014, The Times of India (Tamil Nadu, India) - Penanaman padi organik tetap dipertahankan [Organic farmers in Kudus, Central Java, are using SRI are persist due to advantages, although they are not that many in total.]
August 8, 2014, Suara Merdeka (Central Java, Indonesia) - Land under paddy cultivation declines in Udupi district
August 6, 2014, The Hindu (Karnataka, India) - Farmers learn ways to increase productivity [Farmers learn SRI and other methods at training programme at Vivekananda Kendra Natural Resources Development Project (VK-NARDEP) in Kanyakumari.]
August 3, 2014, The Hindu (Tamil Nadu, India) - 8,000 acres to be under Kuruvai near Tiruchirapalli [Free implements distributed to encourage farmers to take up SRI. So far 5,800 acres have been brought under SRI, benefiting 3,050 farmers.]
August 1, 2014, The Hindu (Tamil Nadu, India)
Blog Posts and Website Articles - acquired during August 2014
- 2014. System of Rice Intensification. Dristi - The Vision Foundation website. July 23. [Guideines for using, constraints, etc.]
- Patnugutan. 2014. Pangatoen ti apit babaen iti system of rice intensification. Nordis website. August 17. (Philippines)
- Tiwari, Ravish. 2014. India's shifting food bowls. India Today, Cover Story, August 13. [SRI in Chhattisgarh, Bihar and Jharkhand has led to this massive jump in paddy production that is shifting the rice bowl of India away from Punjab and Haryana.]
- SWISSAID. 2014. A new rice cultivation method: hard work, but successfu. SWISSAID website. August 13.
Latest Research / Journal Articles / Theses - links acquired during August 2014
(in order of acquisition. See also complete alphbetized list of journal articles.)
[Note: • Red dot indicates the publication is freely available.]
- Sharma, Pawan Kumar, and Jagmohan Kaur. 2014. Influence of age of rice nursery on productivity and water usage under different nitrogen levels and transplanting systems 51(2) : 132-135. [accessed August 31, 2014]
- Chen, Shih-Kai, et al. 2014. Assessing the groundwater recharge under various irrigation schemes in Central Taiwan. Geophysical Research Abstracts 16 (EGU2014-1444) [accessed August 15, 2014]
- • Tumusiime, Emmanuel, and Edmund Matotay. 2014. Agriculture sustainability, inclusive growth, and development assistance: Insights from Tanzania. Journal of Sustainable Development 7(4): 181-190. doi:10.5539/jsd.v7n4p181 [accessed August 15, 2014]
- Kepha G. Omwenga, Kepha G., Bancy M. Mati, and Patrick G. Home. 2014. Determination of the effect of the System of Rice Intensification (SRI) on rice yields and water saving in Mwea Irrigation Scheme, Kenya. Journal of Water Resource and Protection 6: 895-901. doi:10.4236/jwarp.2014.610084 [accessed August 14, 2014]
- Suresh, A., M. Ramesh, and Reddy S. Ram. 2014. Fluorescent pseudomonads contribute to the enhanced growth and yield of rice cultivated under system of rice intensification (SRI). Indian Journal of Agricultural Research 48(4): 287-293. doi:10.5958/0976-058X.2014.00662.3 [accessed August 14, 2014]
- Suchiradipta, Bhattacharjee, and Saravanan Raj. 2014. Agricultural Innovation Systems (AIS): A Study of stakeholders and their relations in System of Rice Intensification (SRI). Journal of Agricultural Education and Extension (28p.) doi:10.1080/1389224X.2014.939200 [accessed August 5, 2014]
New Links from our Website to Online Publications (August 2014)
- Styger, Erika, and Devon Jenkins. 2014. Technical manual for SRI in West Africa: Improving and scaling up of the System of Rice Intensification in West Africa (verson 2). SRI West Africa website. (56p pdf) [ Written for the project "Improving and Scaling Up the System of Rice Intensification in West Africa" implemented by the West African Agricultural Productivity Program (WAAPP) and jointly coordinated by CNS-RIZ in Mali, and SRI-Rice at Cornell University.]
- (see also Latest Research directly above and Recent Uploads for this month's links to online publications).
Videos / Audiofiles (August 2014 Additions to SRI-Rice Playlists)
- Video: 2014 (August 26, 2014). Irrigation and Weeding Management in SRI PANI IILD. 7:05 min. pani iild channel. Youtube.
- Video: 2014. (August 26, 2014). Pon Vilaiyum Bhoomi 25/08/2014 Part-II. 15:12. min. ddagriculture channel, Youtube.
- Video: 2014 (August 21, 2014) System of Rice Intensification. 3:22 min. madhukar patel channel, Youtube. [Indian dialect video about SRI in Bilaspar, Chhatishgarh. This video has a good section on using the roller marker for transplanting.]
Slide Presentations (Primarily PowerPoint) - August 2014 links
- 2014. 22 PowerPoint presentations from the Conference on System of Rice Intensification: Research Issues, Priorities and Prospects, held August 12-13, 2014, in Bhubaneswar, Odisha, India. (The event was organized by the Livolink Foundation with support from Sir Dorabji Tata Trust and Allied Trusts, Mumbai (SDTT)) [Accessed August 24, 2014]
