December 2014 - Additions to the SRI-Rice Website
(Links to online material)
- New Uploads (Our site)
- Videos/Audio
- Slide Presentations
• SRI-Rice Statistics for December 2014: 3,838 unique visitors (3,851 last month) from 92 countries (95 last month) viewed 9,002 pages (10,386 last month) on the SRI website. Total Facebook views: 2,083 (1,917 last month) with 1,473 all-time likes. Twitter followers: 973 (18 new this month). Total YouTube views: 43,988 (1,161 new this month). We have 425 slideshow and poster presentations (all time, 15 new this month) uploaded and 152 subscribers on our Slideshare site. There are 612 papers in our Refworks research database. (These also appear in the Mendeley SRI Research Network site.)
• For additional global news see: our News page, Latest Additions, Twitter, News and Views blog, LinkedIn, YouTube (global), YouTube (India), Slideshare and Picasa photo gallery, or, see news by country
• For news about our program see: SRI-Rice Center news
News from past months
In the Press - December 2014
- Ethiopia: Is ecological sensitivity good for agriculture?
December 28, 2014, AllAfrica (Ethiopia) - Hasil lipat ganda
December 22, 2014, Utusan online (Malaysia) - Memandang tanah sebagai "sistem hidup" [Sriwijaya University professor and Alik Sutaryat explain SRI benefits.]
December 14, 2014, Koran Jakarta (Indonesia) - Field day on System of Rice Intensification held in Boribo District, Kampong Chhnang province
December 15, 2014, AKP Agence Kampuchea Press - 6,000 acres of fallow land made fertile
December 7, 2014, The Hindu (Tamil Nadu, India) - Smart agriculture for food security [Rita Sharma notes SRI as win-win for Climate-Smart Agriculture (CSA).]
December 4, 2014, The Tribune (India) - Farmer gets paddy yield of 15.8 tonnes per hectare [Farmer gets record yield in Theni District using SRI with organic and chemical inputs.]
December 2, 2014, The Hindu (Tamil Nadu, India) - Jimat masa gembur sawah [Award-winning organic paddy cultivator used with SRI made by POLIMAS/UUM]
December 2, 2014, My Metro (Malaysia)
Blog Posts and Website Articles - acquired during December 2014
- Parida, Ronalisa. 2014. Krusi Mahotsav acquaints farmers with better technology. I am in DNA of Berhampur. December 31. (Three-day event in South Odisha, India, highlights SRI, farm equipment, and other innovations.)
- Shrivastava,Aakriti. 2014. Farming's better half: Jharkhand women redefine smallholder farming. NewKerala. December 30. [Women in Jharkhand, India, successfully adopting SCI for a number of crops.]
- Mati, Bancy. 2014. SRI Rice marketing project launched. Water Research and Resource Center (JKUAT) website. December 21.
- Randall, Rebecca. 2014. Agroecology should embrace GMOs and focus on sustainablity, not ideology. Genetic Literacy Project. December 19.
- Pidgeon, Stephen. 2014. Stephen Pidgeon: Go and see for yourself the difference you make.Third Sector wesite. December 18. [Comments on SRI progress on a project wiwth VSO volunteers near Deoghar, India]
- Wycliffe, Nyang'au. 2014. System of Rice Intensification (SRI) twin projects launched. Water Research and Resource Center website. December 10.
- 2014. Pengembangan agribisnis untuk mewujudkan ketahanan pangan. Purworejo Regency website. December 2. [Organic SRI noted by Regent of Purworejo, Central Java, as a way to modernize paddy production to achieve food security.]
- 2014. Senegal Agriculture - Riziculture: l'ANCAR lance le SRI pour améliorer la productivité. Agence de Presse Sénégalaise. December 1. (Kaolack, Senegal)
- 2014. CFPAR field day in Cambodia. SRI-LBM website. [Central Farmer's Participatory Action Research (CFPAR) have a Nov. 28 field day sponsored by the AIT-based SRI Lower Mekong Basin project.] [Accessed Dec. 30, 2014.]
Latest Research / Journal Articles / Theses - links acquired during December 2014
(in order of acquisition. See also complete alphabetized list of journal articles.)
[Note: • Red dot indicates the publication is freely available.]
- Bhattacharjee, Suchiradipta, and R. Saravanan. 2014. Who makes it click? Understanding the stakeholders in agricultural innovation systems in Tripura state of India. Tropical Agricultural Research 25(4): 479-494 [accessed Dec 30, 2014]
- • Wayayok, Aimrun, Mohd Amin Modh Soom, Khalina Abdan, et al. 2014. Impact of mulch on weed infestation in System of Rice Intensification (SRI) farming. Agriculture and Agricultural Science Procedia 2: 353–360. doi:10.1016/j.aaspro.2014.11.049 [accessed Dec. 11, 2014]
- • Fazli, Pardis, and Hasfalina Che Man. 2014. Comparison of methane emission from conventional and modified paddy cultivation in Malaysia. Agriculture and Agricultural Science Procedia 2: 272–279. doi:10.1016/j.aaspro.2014.11.039 [accessed Dec. 11, 2014]
- • Visalaksmi, M., and A. Sireesha. 2014. Evaluation of rice production technologies for higher monetary returns and water use efficiency. The Journal of Research ANGRAU 42(2): 51–53. [accessed Dec. 11, 2014]
- • Babu, P. Surendra, A. Madhavi, and P. Venkata Reddy. 2014. Root activity of rice crop under normal (flooded) and SRI method of cultivation. The Journal of Research ANGRAU 42(2): 1-3. [accessed Dec. 11, 2014]
Links from our Website to Online Publications (December 2014)
(see also Latest Research directly above)
- MCE-A and Oxfam. 2014. System of Rice Intensification: Trial and potential in Timor-Leste. Oxfam New Zealand website. July. (18p. pdf) [Report of an Oxfam-sponsored project carried out by the Movimento Cooperativo Economico-Agricola (MCE-A)] [accessed Dec. 1, 2014]
Documents Uploaded on our Website (December 2014)
- 2014. Unnoticed Green Revolution in Chhattisgarh. System of Rice Intensification website. April. [uploaded December 21, 2014]
Videos / Audiofiles (December 2014 Additions to SRI-Rice Playlists)
- Video: 2014 (December 25). Pon Vilaiyum Bhoomi 24/12/2014 Part-I .12:03 min. dd agriculture channel, YouTube.
Slide Presentations (Primarily PowerPoint) - December 2014 uploads
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Posters presented at the 4th International Rice Congress, Bangkok International Trade and Exhibition Centre (BITEC), Bangkok, Thailand, Oct. 27-31, 2014 [Uploaded Dec 2014 to the SRI-Rice slideshare site]
- Farmer evaluation of the System of Rice Intensification (SRI) and the conventional rice cultivation rice cultivation in Benin. Pascal Gbenou, Kakanitchoé, Adjohoun, Benin; Noukpo Agossou, Department of Geography, University of Calavi, Benin; and Marjolein Visser, Department of Ecology, Free University of Brussels (IRC14-0958)
- Application of System of Rice Intensification (SRI) principles in sustainable rice production in Bhutan. N. Chhogyel, M. Ghimirey, and Y. Bajgai.
- Integrated System of Rice Intensification (SRI): Climate-resilient technology to enhance crop and water productivity. A. K. Thakur, R. K. Mohanty, Ashwani Kumar,Directorate of Water Management/ICAR, Bhubaneswar, India (IRC14-0237)
- Gender issues in the introduction of mechanical weeding with System of Rice Intensification (SRI): Insights village studies in Odisha, India. Sabarmatee, SAMBHAV; C. Shambu Prasad, Xavier Institute of Management, Bhubaneswar (IRC14-0937)
- The roots of the "root revolution": PreGreen Revolution antecedents of the System of Rice Intensification (SRI) in India. Dominic Glover, IDS-Sussex, UK (IRC14-0614)
- Root morphology and anatomy of rice plants cultivated under System of Rice Intensification (SRI). Nurul Hidayati, Triadiati, Iswandi Anas; Bogor Agricultural University, Indonesia (IRC14-0616)
- Physiological and morphological changes in rice plants under System of Rice Intensification (SRI) management and its effects on increasing yield. Nurul Hidayati, Triadiati, Iswandi Anas; Bogor Agric. Univ. (IPB), Indonesia (IRC14-0595)
- Rice ratooning with high yield is possible! Iswandi Anas, Nindya Ayu Utari, Yolla Vivi Sukmasakti, Rahayu Wijdyastuti; Bogor Agricultural University, Indonesia (IRC14-0991)
- Water management of yield-record-holding SRI farmer in Indonesia: A case study and its implications. K. Toriyama, S. Yokoyama, Japanese International Research Center for Agricultural Sciences, Tsukuba (IRC14-0926)
- Participation and impact of rice cultivation training: The case of SRI in Madagascar. S. Yokoyama, Japanese International Research Center for Agricultural Sciences (IRC14-0504)
- Doing organic SRI: Some determining factors. Wan Nur’ashiqin Wan Mohamad, Nur Izzad Fahmi Abdu Rahim, Abidah Ashari , Anizan Isahak, Febri Doni, Wan Mohtar Wan Yusoff; School of Environmental and Natural Resources Sciences, and School of Biosciences and Biotechnology, Faculty of Science and Technology, Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia, Malaysia
- Use of Trichoderma species in enhancing rice productivity. Febri Doni, Anizan Isahak, Wan Mohtar, Che Radziah, National University of Malaysia (UKM)
- System of Rice Intensification (SRI): An opportunity to improve the productivity and resilience of African rice production. Minamba Bagayoko, Gaoussou Traoré, Institut d’Economie Rurale, Bamako, Mali; Erika Styger, Devon Jenkins, SRI-Rice, Cornell University (IRC14-0661)
- Improving and scaling up the System of Rice Intensification in West Africa. Devon Jenkins, Erika Styger, SRI-Rice, Cornell University; Gaoussou Traoré, Minamba Bagayoko, Institut d’Economie Rurale, Bamako, Mali; (IRC14-0675)
- Agroecology (AE) in Sri Lanka: Oxfam interventions. Chaminda Fernando, Oxfam, Sri Lanka
- The System of Rice Intensification (SRI): A suitable technique, new approach, and bright perspective for small rice farmers in SE Asia to ensure food security and adaptation of climate change. Hoang Van Phu, Thai Nguyen University (IRC14-0977)
- The evolution of System of Rice Intensification: What have we learned? Le Minh, E. Tumusiime, Dang Bao Nguyet, Oxfam America (IRC14-1350)
- Development of appropriate equipment for use with the System of Rice Intensification. Lucy Fisher, SRI-Rice, Cornell University (IRC14-0627)
