June 2014 - Additions to the SRI-Rice Website
(Uploads to our site and links to online material)
- Latest Research
- New Publication Links
- New Uploads (Our site)
• SRI-Rice statistics for June 2014: 3,723 unique visitors from 95 countries viewed 11,284 pages on the SRI website. Total Facebook views: 1863. Twitter followers: 807 (12 new this month). total YouTube views: 35,991 (830 new this month). We now have 385 presentations (alltime) uploaded on Slideshare acct and 579 papers in our Refworks research database.
• For additional 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
• See Latest activities of the SRI-Rice Center staff and advisors
News from other months
In the Press - June 2014
- Agricultural officials and FAO discuss rice intensification [Lao Govt and FAO officials meet to discuss SRI in Laos]
June 27, 2014, Vientiane Times (Laos) - SRI trg on rice cultivation in Jalukie
June 27, 2014, Nagaland Post (Nagaland, India) - Agricultural crops, tools distributed
June 26, 2014, E-PAO [source: Hueiyen News Service] (Manipur, Inda) - Demo on groundnut cultivation and SRI conducted
June 24, 2014, Morung Express (Nagaland, India) - National food security: Self-reliance is the key [fourth paragraph notes SRI as way for Nepal to increase yield.]
June 23, 2014, The Himalayan (Nepal) - Penaman padi organik dilaksanakan bertahap [Progress of organic SRI in Kudus Regency of Central Java]
June 22, 2014, Suara Merdeka (Central Java, Indonesia) - Sierra Leone farmers embrace SRI farming to reduce poverty
June 20, 2014, Orzya (re: Sierra Leone) - W/Bank: About 10,865 Sierra Leone farmers adopt SRI [10,865 Sierra Leone farmers have adopted SRI, which is also supported by the West Africa Agricultural Productivity Program (WAAPP) in Sierra Leone]
June 19, 2014, Star Africa (Re: Sierra Leone) - Govt gears up for kharif crop, more land under SRI [Ag. Dept. in Goa trying to raise area under SRI in kharif season to 1,000 hectares in the uplands]
June 18, 2014, Times of India (Goa, India) - Gentechnik hilft nicht gegen Hunger
June 18, 2014, Südwest Presse (Germany) - Deficient monsoon predicted, give agriculture an economic stimulus [Devinder Sharma says the "entire agricultural machinery, including agricultural universities and the state agricultural departments along with the private agribusiness companies, should have been involved in promoting the SRI]
June 14, 2014, Hindustan Times (Punjab, India) - DAO, ATMA conduct demon on SRI method in Kiphire
June 11, 2014, Nagaland Post (Nagaland, India) - Trg programmes for farmers on SRI under NFSM [Three Dept. of Ag. SRI trainings under NFSM were held in Zunheboto, Wokha, and Mokokchung in Nagaland.]
June 10, 2014, Nagaland Post (Nagaland, India) - Promoting SRI to ensure food security [KVK, Yisemyong, Mokokchung, conducted an SRI training under National Food Security Mission on June 7]
June 8, 2014, Morung Express (Nagaland, India) - Tanzania: Research helps Mvomero farmers double rice production [Mvomero district farmers doubled production after SRI training by Sokoine Univ.]
June 6, 2014, AllAfrica.com (Tanzania) [source: Daily News] - Rice intensification uplifts Mvomero rice farmers
[Mvomero district farmers doubled production after SRI training by Sokoine Univ.]
June 1, 2014, IPP media (Tanzania) - Malawi: SRI double rice harvest
June 1, 2014, AllAfrica (Malawi)
Blog Posts and Website Articles - acquired during June 2014
- Fisher, Lucy, Linda Roberts, and Erika Styger. 2014. SRI-Rice to take part in study on the potential of the System of Rice Intensification to reduce arsenic in rice. SRI-Rice website, Feature article. June 29.
- 2014. 미NGO, 쌀 증산 신기술 북에 전수(U.S. NGO expands rice production technology transfer to the north). Radio Free Asia website. June 24. [Korean language broadcast about American Friend Service Committee success with SRI in plastic trays in North Korea.]
- Mainhart, Calondra 2014. Less is more for rice farmers. Innovate Development website. June 23.
- Nitzkorski, Dylan. 2014. SRI training reaches 24 farmers in Thilambol. Peace Corps Senegal website. June 20.
- Anne. 2014. Report on the sustainable agriculture development seminar. Humanitarian Centre website. June 20.
- 2014. Training on System of Rice Intensification. Indo-Global Social Service Society website. June 18. [IGSSS and the NGO Samagra Seva Kendra organize SRI training for 61 farmers from 10 villages at Barachetti village, Gaya, Bihar.]
- Feng, Zhoucen. 2014. 1) Weeding with a Garden Weasel (June 18) and 2) Restart (June 15) SRI in Northern Haiti blog. [Two posts about Zhoucen Feng's SRI trials with iF Foundation.]
- 2014. Agricultural program helps rice crops and food security grow in Sierra Leone. World Bank website New section, Feature Story. June 18.
- Charlotte. 2014. Harvest of hope in East Timor. Oxfam New Zealand. June 10.
- 2014. NABARD to start livelihood project in 19 Maoist-hit districts of Odisha. OdishaDiary website. June 1. [Program to include SRI and SCI among other sustainable livelihood opportunities.]
- Swain, Ashwini. 2014. Can India reform its agriculture? The Diplomat, Feature section, June 1. [Discussion of India's need to address agriculture in its climate change dialogue.]
Latest Research / Journal Articles / Theses - links acquired during June 2014
(in order of acquisition. See also complete alphbetized list of journal articles.)
- Sarwar, Naeem, Hakoomat Ali, Muhammad Maqsood, Ashfaq Ahmad, Ehsan Ullah, Tasneem Khaliq and James E. Hill. 2014. Influence of nursery management and seedling age on growth and economic performance of fine rice. Journal of Plant Nutrition 37(8): 1287-1303. doi:10.1080/01904167.2014.881490 [June 2014]
- Pandit, Arun, Jyoti Ranjan Mishra, and B. N. Sadangi. 2013. An economic evaluation of system of rice intensification in Odisha. ORYZA - An International Journal on Rice 50(3): 284-290. (Published online June 12, 2014). [accessed June 16, 2014]
- Bashar, Zubairu Usman, Aimrun Wayayok, Amin M. S. M., and Razif M. Mahadi. 2014. Quality seed: An innovative sorting technique to sustainable, uniform and effective seedling establishment in nursery for System of Rice Intensification. Journal of Agricultural Science (Canadian Center of Science and Education) 6(7): 185-193. doi:10.5539/jas.v6n7p185 [accessed June 16, 2014]
- Shukla, U. N., V. K. Srivastava, Smita Singh, A. Sen and V. Kumar. 2014. Growth, yield and economic potential of rice (Oryza sativa) as influenced by different age of seedlings, cultivars and weed management under system of rice intensification. Indian Journal of Agricultural Sciences 84(5): [accessed June 2, 2014]
New Links from our Website to Online Publications (June 2014)
- Bicksler, Abram, and Rebecca Garofano (eds.). 2014. SRI Innovations. ECHO Asia Notes. Issue 21, June 2014. [Includes five articles from Asia about SRI, mostly about tools used for planting SRI in Thailand.]
- (see Latest Research directly above and Recent Uploads for this month's links to online publications).
Recent Documents Uploaded and New Pages added to our Website (June 2014)
- Fisher, Lucy, Linda Roberts, and Erika Styger. 2014. SRI-Rice to take part in study on the potential of the System of Rice Intensification to reduce arsenic in rice. SRI-Rice website, Feature article. June 29.
- Reddy, P. Bala Hussain, and S. Sreenivasulu. 2014. Field problems in direct-seeded rice using drumseeder -- and solutions. SRI-Rice website. June 30. (7p. 744KB pdf) [Instructional booklet on drumseeder use for paddy by Krishi Vigyan Kendra staff in two districts of Andhra Pradesh.]
Videos / Audiofiles (June 2014 Additions to SRI-Rice Playlists)
- Video: 2014 (June 23). System of Rice Intensification - Kurt Unkel Planting. 2:58 min. Talor Frey channel, YouTube. [Kurt Unkel, a Louisiana farmer undertakes trials with SRI on his farm.]
- [accessed June 30, 2014]. Video: 2014 (February 25). SRI Cultivation Warangal. 5:59 min. Produced and directed by Kiranmayi (Timeline Digital Solutions presentation). timeline channel, YouTube. [Telugu video about and SRI project in Talengana state in India]
- Video: 2014 (June 16). Conoweeder se Kharpatvar niyantran MP. 7:29 min. digitalgreenorg channel, YouTube. [Use of the conoweeder in India]
- Video: 2014 (June 7). Rice transplanting in SRI method Odia VARRAT Odisha. 12:27 min. digitalgreenorg channel, YouTube.
- [accessed June 9, 2014]. TV Broadcast: 2014 (May 5). Nano (May 5 TV show). 27:45 (broadcast about SRI is 13:40-20:40). Online at ZDFMediathek. [Material from Bettina Weiz about the world record with SRI in India and how SRI helps small farmers and the environment through the reduction of inputs and agrochemicals.]
Slide Presentations (Primarily PowerPoint) - June 2014 uploads and links
- 2014. System of rice intensification, a sustainable method to increase crop production. 43 slides. Presentation by Damini Thawait, Dept. of Agronomy, Indira Gandhi Agricultural University, Chhattisgarh. (slideshare) [Accessed June 18, 2014]
Photo Gallery
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