January 2015 - Additions to the SRI-Rice Website
(Links to online material)
- New Uploads (Our site)
- Videos/Audio
- Slide Presentations
• SRI-Rice Statistics for January 2015: 3,896 unique visitors (3,838 last month) from 85 countries (92 last month) viewed 9,526 pages (9,002 last month) on the SRI website. Total Facebook views: 4,118 (2,083 last month) with 1,522 all-time likes. Twitter followers: 1,000 (27 new this month). Total YouTube views: 45,034 (2,036 new this month). Slideshare: 425 slideshow and poster presentations uploaded and 154 subscribers. There are 675 items in our Refworks research database. (These also appear in the Mendeley SRI Research Network site.) We now have 156 members of the SRI Equipment Exchange!
• For additional global news see: our News page, Latest Additions, Twitter, 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
• SRI-Rice web pages updated during January: Main page, Burundi, China, Cambodia, Myanmar, India news, Senegal, Sierra Leone, Taiwan, Tanzania, Vietnam, events, past conferences, Equipment Workshop presentations, new resources (2015), 2014 news, groups/listservs, NTU trip reports, journal articles, Indian research, Thailand international workshops, SRI-Rice staff and project news, videos, weeder page]
News from past months
In the Press - January 2015
- Go organic, reap benefits [Farmer uses organic SRI methods to achieve award-winning 15+ton/ha yield in TN]
January 30, 2015, The Hindu (Tamil Nadu, India) - Cane price: farmers seek government intervention
January 30, 2015, The Hindu (Tamil Nadu, India) - Balasore to cover more area for potato farming [Village agriculture workers (VAWs) in irrigated areas of Balasore encourage farmers to use SRI]
January 25, 2015, New Indian Express (Odisha, India) - Sivagiri farmer bags award [Erode district farmer wins state-level crop yield competition for 2013-14 with15,325 ton/ha yield using SRI]
January 25, 2015, The Hindu (Tamil Nadu, India) - Efficient rice farming to curb emissions [Govt. Project on Reduced CH4 Emissions in Wet Rice Cultivation in Viet Nam to use SRI methods]
January 25, 2015, VietnamNet (Vietnam) - Paddy farmers in Erode expect bumper harvest
January 15, 2015, The Hindu (Tamil Nadu, India) - NABARD projects 26% rise in lending to Goa’s priority sector [NABARD initiated a special project for improving the paddy productivity through SRI.].
January 9, 2015, The Times of India (Goa, India) - Funds crunch hits agriculture mission [The restructured NMSA to focus more on organics and innovations like SRI that use less water.]
January 6, 2015, The Hindu (India) - Diversity crops, Agri Dept told [Odisha Agri Dept. instructed to diversity crops, promote line sowing via SRI and other measure.]
January 6, 2015, New Indian Express (Odisha, India) - Petani bangkit karena "SRI"
January 4, 2015, Koran Jakarta (Indonesia)
Blog Posts and Website Articles - acquired during January 2015
- Chang, Yu-Chuan. 2015. 寧靜的台灣稻作革命(上)-低投入高產出的強化稻作系統 Taiwan's rice quiet revolution on strengthening ow-input high-yield rice systems strengthening. 台灣強化稻作栽培體系Taiwan-SRI blog. January 31.
- 2015. Vietnam adopts new rice cultivation methods to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. Oryza. January 26. [Govt. Project on Reduced CH4 Emissions in Wet Rice Cultivation in Viet Nam to use SRI methods]
- Sutanto, Emily. 2015. SRI - System of Rice Intensification. Sunria website. [Section about SRI in Sunria's new website. Sunria is an Indonesian company that exports organic fair trade rice grown with SRI methods to Europe, Asia and the USA.] [accessed January 2015]
- 2015. "Bumper Harvest" Expected in Tamil Nadu from System of Rice Intensification. Second Chance Foundation website. January 16.
- Oxfam. 2015. Challenges remain for Haiti five years after devastating quake. Oxfam America website. January 12, 2015
- Isnani, Intar. 2015. System of Rice Intensification (SRI). Kantor Ketahanan Pangan dan Penyuluhan Pertanian Perikanan Kehutanan Kabupaten Kulon Progo website. January 9. [SRI description from the Office of Food Security and Extension for Kulon Progo Regency, Temon district in the the Jogjakarta Special Region, Indonesia]
- Partners Relief and Development. 2015. 5 days of thank you - Sustainable rice farming. Partners World blog. [71 farmers took place in Partners SRI training in Shan State, Burma.]
- SRI-Mas. 2015. Southeast Asia Regional SRI Conference. SRI-Mas website.
Latest Research / Journal Articles / Theses - links acquired during January 2015
(in order of acquisition. See also complete alphabetized list of journal articles.)
[Note: • Red dot indicates the publication is freely available.]
- • Kushwaha, K. S., and A. K. Rai. 2014. Use of ANCOVA technique for inbred and hybrid rice under SRI and conventional planting methods. Jawaharlal Nehru Krishi Vishwa Vidyalaya Research Journal 48(3): 359-366. [accessed Jan. 25, 2015]
- • Borole, Pravin Y., Mahesh R. Patel, and Arun Patel. 2014. Development of scale to measure attitude of demonstrated paddy growers towards the SRI technique. Gujarat Journal of Extension Education 25(2): 163-165. [accessed Jan. 25, 2015]
- S., Alagappan, and Venkitaswamy R. 2015. Performance of different sources of organic manures in comparison with RDF and INM on growth, yield and economics of rice-greengram cropping system. Trends in Biosciences 7(22): 3597–3605. [accessed Jan. 25, 2015]
- • Talla, Arunbabu, and Satya Nanda Jena. 2014. Nutrient composition, uptake by weeds and rice under different crop establishment and weed management practices. International Journal of Agriculture, Environment & Biotechnology 7(4): 811-816. doi:10.5958/2230-732X.2014.01391.6 [accessed Jan. 10, 2015]
- Jeyapandiyan, N., and A. Lakshmanan. 2014. Yield comparison of rice in different cultivation systems. Trends in Biosciences 7(14): 1635-1637 [accessed Jan. 10, 2015]
- • Tusekelege, H. K., R. J. Kangile, H. S. Ng’ elenge, et al. 2014. Option for increasing rice yields, profitability, and water saving: a comparative analysis of System of Rice Intensification in Morogoro, Tanzania. International Journal of Recent Biotechnology 2(1): 4-10. [accessed Jan. 10, 2015]
- • Sigdel, Udit P., Durga Devkota, Narayan R. Joshi, et al. 2014. Impact of result demonstration of System of Rice Intensification (SRI) adoption among participant and non-participant farmers in Chitwan, Nepal. International Journal of Agricultural Extension 2(3): 153-158 [accessed Jan 10., 2015]
- Patel, K. M., and M. M. Patel. 2014. Weed management in rice (Oryza sativa L.) under System of Rice Intensification technique. Trends in Biosciences 7(5): 384-387 [accessed Jan. 2, 2015]
- Plabita, R., and R. K. Raj. 2014. Extent of adoption of practices under System of Rice Intensification in Odisha. ORYZA- An International Journal on Rice 51(1): 81-85 [accessed Jan 2, 2015]
- Ochienno, Judith Taaka. 2014. Influence of communication on adoption of agricultural innovation: A case of the System of Rice Intensification in Mwea irrigation scheme. Master’s Thesis, University of Nairobi, Kenya. (67p. 394 KB pdf)
- 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. 2014]
- Mohanty, D. K., K. C. Barik, and D. Behera. 2014. Comparative performance of different rice establishment methods for sustainable rice production in Deogarh district of Odisha. Agricultural Engineering Today 38(3): 5-9 [accessed Jan 2, 2015]
Links from our Website to Online Publications (January 2015)
(see also Latest Research directly above)
- Akiyoko, Antonin O. 2014. Rapport de l’atelier de formation des producteurs pour la mise en place et la conduite des parcelles de demonstration sur le SRI dans la Vallée de l’Ouémé. (French language report of a training by ProCAD/WAAPP-Benin held in Dangbo, Benin, November 12-14, 2014). [accessed January, 2015]
- RRA Network Malkangiri. 2014. System of Rice Intensification (SRI) with the rainfed tribal farmers of Malkangiri. WASSAN website. (8p. pdf) [Accessed Jan 2, 2015]
New Documents Uploaded to the SRI-Rice Website (January 2015)
- Oxfam and SRI-Rice. 2015. Workshop Summary: Workshop on Building Alliances around SRI and Agro-ecology. SRI-Rice website. The workshop, which preceded the 4th International Rice Congress, was organized by Oxfam and SRI-Rice, at the Maple Hotel, Bangna, Bangkok, Thailand, on October 27-28, 2014. Fifty-one participants from 16 countries attended.]
- 2015. SRI Events in Thailand: October & November. SRI-Rice website. [created January 2015]
- Ministere de l'Agriculture et de l'Elevage. 2015. Fiche technique harmonisee pour la riziculture au Burundi. SRI-Rice website. [Extension material for farmers in Burundi published by the Ministry of Agriculture.] [uploaded Jan. 19, 2015]
- SRI-Rice. 2014. Studies on SRI management and impacts - Reports from 19 countries. SRI-Rice website. (2p., 469KB pdf) [Handout at the SRI booth at the 4th International Rice Congress, Bangkok Thailand, Oct. 27-Nov. 1, 2014.] [Uploaded January 5, 2015]
- SRI-Rice. 2014. SRI's impact for farmers and their families - Reports from around the world. SRI-Rice website. (2p., 462KB pdf) [Handout at the SRI booth at the 4th International Rice Congress, Bangkok Thailand, Oct. 27-Nov. 1, 2014.] [Uploaded January 5, 2015]
- SRI-Rice. 2014. The System of Rice Intensification and its impacts on women. SRI-Rice website. (4p., 532KB pdf) [Handout at the SRI booth at the 4th International Rice Congress, Bangkok Thailand, Oct. 27-Nov. 1, 2014.] [Uploaded January 5, 2015]
- SRI-Rice. 2014. Scientific research documenting and explaining SRI. SRI-Rice website. (3p., 419KB pdf) [Handout at the SRI booth at the 4th International Rice Congress, Bangkok Thailand, Oct. 27-Nov. 1, 2014.][Uploaded January 5, 2015]
- SRI-Rice. 2014. SRI: Sources of institutional support. SRI-Rice website. (2p., 247KB pdf) [Handout at the SRI booth at the 4th International Rice Congress, Bangkok Thailand, Oct. 27-Nov. 1, 2014.] [Uploaded January 5, 2015]
- SRI-Rice. 2014. The System of Rice Intensification (SRI)…... is climate-smart rice production. (2p., 371KB pdf) [Handout at the SRI booth at the 4th International Rice Congress, Bangkok Thailand, Oct. 27-Nov. 1, 2014.][Uploaded January 5, 2015]
- Adhikari, Prabhakar. 2014. Pragati, Koraput experiences in System of Ragi Intensification. SRI-Rice website. (12p., 2.23 MB pdf) [Pragati's 2014 experiences with Ragi Intensification, which reached 1,215 farmers on 824 acres in Koraput district, Odisha, India.] [uploaded January 3, 2014]
Videos / Audiofiles (January 2015 Additions to SRI-Rice Playlists)
- Video: 2015 (January 19). Madagascar – Abeline’s Field of Gold IFAD (en). [French version: Madagascar: "Le Champ d'Or" d'Abeline IFAD (fr) ] 3:08 min. UN Expo channel, YouTube. [These IFAD videos are shortened versions of the 2012 IFAD/SRI-Rice video "SRI Introduction: The spread of SRI in East Africa" produced by Flooded Cellar Productions.]
- Video: 2015 (January 11). SRI Method of Paddy Cultivation - System of Rice Intensification - Vyavasayam | Studio N . 26:40 min. Studio N News channel, YouTube. (Telugu language) [News report on SRI from Tamil Nadu TV station in India.]
- Video: 2015 (January 11). SRI Malaysia: A prototype transplanter: The Malaysian Rowcaster. 4:36 min. Supachai Pitiwut channel, YouTube
- Video: 2015 (January 6). Journal TV 20H de la RTS1 du 6 Janvier 2015. 39.37 min (SRI segment plays during minutes 20:57 to 23:45). Produced Radiodiffusion Télévision Sénégalaise, RTS channel, YouTube. [TV channel report on workshop and training in Kaolack, Senegal, with additional reporting on the WAAPP’s SRI project in Kaolack, Fatick and Kaffrine.]
Slide Presentations (Primarily PowerPoint) - January 2015 uploads
- None this month
