April 2016 - Additions to the SRI-Rice Website
(Links to online material)
• SRI-RICE STATISTICS FOR APRIL 2016:
SRI-Rice website: 3,732 unique visitors (3,705 last month) from 95 countries logged 4,591 sessions in which 8,972 pages (8,891 last month) were viewed.
Facebook pages: 1) SRI-Rice: All-time likes 1,970 (78 new this month). 2) SRI Equipment Innovators Exchange: 270 members
YouTube (primary): Views for April: 1,583 new this month for our 66 uploads. 993 views during April of our 29 playlists (not including our India YouTube channel). 230 subscribers (9 new). [NOTE!: The 8 India playlists from the SRI India video channel are now accessible as "saved playlists" on the main SRI-Rice video channel - see bottom panel).
Twitter: 1,420 followers (19 new this month)
Slideshare: 8,526 views new this month 450 slideshows/posters total uploaded, 197 followers.
Research Databases:
There are 878 items in our new Zotero research database (12 new). (700+ of these appear in the Mendeley SRI Research database). Note: we are no longer adding to RefWorks as it was retired in Dec. 2015. Please use Zotero.)
• For additional global news see: our News page, Latest Additions, SRI Newsletter, LinkedIn, YouTube (India), and Picasa photo gallery, or, see news by country
• For news about our SRI-Rice program see: SRI-Rice Center news
• SRI-Rice web pages updated during April 2016: journals, 2016, Cambodia, China, India research, Indonesia, Ivory Coast, Kenya, Madagascar, Tanzania, Thailand, Togo, marketing, journals, About us, events, home page, extmat, methods, January 2016 updates, staff news 2016, about us, contact us, staff news 2015, feature index page, seminars, research index, features, theses, WAAPP feature, video feature, press release, videos
News from past months
In the Press - April 2016
- Assam's bowl of success [In addition to new varieties, NSFM consultant suggests SRI to combat climate change.]
April 27, 2016, The Eastern Today (Assam, India) - SRI dapat tingkatkan tingkatkan hasil panen [Extension agent want the govt. to become more serious about SRI as it raises yields; should also try it with hybrids.]
April 27, 2016, SuaraDesa (East Java, Indonesia) - Mali: Plaine de San ouest: Le salut par la diversification des cultures de contre-saison
April 26, 2016, MaliActu.net (Mali) - Taking the tech back to his roots
April 25, 2016, New Indian Express (Tamil Nadu, India) - Uddhav Bharali develops new sowing device
April 24, 2016, Assam Tribune (Assam, India) - Beras organik Banyuwangi tembus pasar luar [A farmers group in Banyawangi, East Java, grew 20 local variieties with SRI and are exporting to several countries.]
April 23, 2016, Medan Binis (Jakarta, Indonesia) - Tata Steel providing access to sustainable livelihoods for SC/ST people [Tata Steel initiative over the last four years, has resulted in SRI adoption by nearly 8,000 farmers. SRI has increased yields from 0.5-0.6 tons/acre in FY05 to about 2.5 tons/acre in the fiscal year 2015-16.]
April 18, 2016, The Avenue Mail (Jharkhand, India) - La Union farmers cite better yield from organic farming
April 14, 2016, Philippine Information Agency (La Union, Philippines) - IPB ciptakan pupuk organik pengganti urea [IPB Professor Iswandi Anas wants to reduce the amount of agrochemicals used; SRI is a good way to do it]
April 12, 2016, Kabar24 (Bogor, Jawah Barat, Indonesia) - A silver lining amid gloom [Agro-economist suggests that yield gaps of existing varieties could be reduced with the adoption SRI]
April 1, 2016, The Financial Express (Bangladesh)
Blog Posts and Website Articles - accessed during April 2016
- WAAPP. 2016. SRI: Giving new life to rice production by closing productivity gap in Mali. West Africa Agricultural Prodcutivity Program (WAAPP) website. April.
- Akmal, Putri. 2016. Beras organik Banyuwangi tembus pasar AS dan Qatar. detikfinance website. April 19. (Jawa Timur, Indonesia)
- 2016. Lotus Foods achieves B Corporation status. Gourmet Business, April 18.
- Sahu, K. C., Gayatri Mahar. 2016. Water Conservation – A Response to drought in Hazaribagh, Indo-Global Social Service Society (IGSSS) website. April 16. [Planning includefor climater change in this Jharkhand community includes SRI in the Khariff season, and vegetables during rainy and winter season and pulses and millets during summer.]
- Lasway, Octavian J. 2016. System of Rice Intensification (SRI). Green Agriculture Skills website. April 14. [Series from Tanzania about how to use SRI methods. This is the first entry. The second is on seedbed preparparation (April 19).
- Trukajaya. 2016. Festival SRI (System of Rice Intensification) dan Sayur Sehat. Yayasan Trukajaya Salatiga blog. April 8. (Jawa Tengah, Indonesia)
- Mazao NGO. The Social Rice Supply Chain (SRSC) and development of rice villages. Mazao website. [Project by the NGO Mazao beginning in 2013 to build a social rice value chain in the DR. Congo] [accessed April 2016]
- Mara, Hillary. 2016. NEW BOOK: The System of Rice Intensification (SRI), Responses to frequently asked questions - by Norman Uphoff. Global News and Views - System of Rice Intensification (SRI) blog. April 6.
- Garris, Amanda. 2016. International call: Sambel Kunda, The Gambia. periodiCALS magazine 6(1) April. [Story about the SRI-Rice work with the SRI-WAAPP project in The Gambia]
Latest Research / Journal Articles / Theses - links acquired during April 2016
(in order of acquisition. See also complete alphabetized list of journal articles.)
[Note: • Red dot indicates the publication is freely available.]
- • Mishra, Abha, Prabhat Kumar, and Jan Willem Ketelaar. 2016. Improving rice-based rainfed production systems in Southeast Asia for contributing towards food security and rural development through sustainable crop production intensification. AIMS Agriculture and Food 1(2): 102-123. doi: 10.3934/agrfood.2016.2.102
- Barrett, Chris, Marcel Fafchamps, Asad Islam, Abdul Malek, and Debayan Pakrashi. 2016. System of rice intensificaion in rural Banladesh: Adoption, diffusion and impact. InternationaI Growth Center (IGC) Working Paper. February 14. (37 pdf) [A study by researchers from Cornell, Stanford, and Monash Universities, IIT (Kanpur), and BRAC studying SRI in farming communities being served by BRAC. A follow up study is planned.] [accessed April 1, 2016]
- • Katambara, Zacharia Saimon, Marco Mng’ong’o, Consolatha Chambi, el al. 2016. Characteristics of rice produced under direct and indirect SRI practices in Chimala Area in Mbarali district Tanzania. Journal of Agriculture and Sustainability 9(1): 15–30. [accessed April 1, 2016]
- Paramasivam, R., S. Varadha Raj, T. R. Shanmugam, et al. 2016. Decadal changes in rice cultivation in Tamil Nadu: Resurvey approach. International Research Journal of Agricultural Economics and Statistics 7(1). [accessed April 1, 2016]
- • Islam, M. Mokidul, and D. C. Kalita. 2016. Weed dynamics and productivity of wetland rice as influenced by establishment methods and irrigated weed management. Bangladesh Journal of Botany 45(1): 9–16. [accessed April 1, 2016]
- • Supriyadi, Supriyadi, Dwi Priyo Ariyanto, and Arlin Santoso. 2015. Organic fertilizer with silk tree litter (Albizia falcataria L.) to enhance magnesium availability for paddy (Oryza sativa L.) in alfisol. Sains Tanah - Journal of Soil Science and Agroclimatology 12(1): 32–38. doi:10.15608/stjssa.v0i0.267[accessed April 1, 2016]
- • Dagar, Vishal, Usha Tuteja, Nandini Pandey, et al. 2015. Perceptions of farmers about adoption of System of Rice Intensification (SRI). Journal of Stock & Forex Trading 5(2): 1–6. doi: 10.4172/2168-9458.1000166 [accessed April 1, 2016]
- • Ndirangu, Bancy Wambui. 2015. Influence of rice intensification system on rice production among small scale farmers. Case of Tebere in Mwea, Kirinyaga county in Kenya. Masters thesis, University of Nairobi (Kenya). [accessed April 1, 2016]
- Shewale, R. R. 2016. Response of summer Gujari rice to various establishment techniques and weed control methods on different yield attributes. International Journal of Agricultural Sciences 12(1). [accessed April 1, 2016]
- Shewale, R. R. 2016. Effect of different weed control methods on summer Gujari rice. International Journal of Agricultural Sciences 12(1). [accessed April 1, 2016]
- • Lenka, Subhrasini, and J. M. L. Gulati. 2015. Root traits of rice (Oryza sativa L.) varieties under two hydrological situations as influenced by different methods of establishments. Middle-East Journal of Scientific Research 23(6): 1204–9. doi:10.5829/idosi.mejsr.2015.23.06.22139 [accessed April 1, 2016]
- • Sivagnanam, S., K. Arivazhagan, V. Arunkumar, and S. Natarajan. 2015. Effect of timing and graded levels of nitrogen and potassium in SRI cultivation. Journal of Applied and Natural Science 7(2): 616–20. [accessed April 1, 2016]
- • Senthilvalavan, P., and M. Ravichandran. 2016. Residual effect of nutrient management practices on the yield, NPK uptake and profitability of rice fallow blackgram. Asian Journal of Science and Technology 7(1): 2305–10.[accessed April 1, 2016]
- • Reuben, P., Z. Katambara, et al. 2016. Influence of transplanting age on paddy yield under the System of Rice Intensification. Agricultural Sciences 7(3): 154-163. doi: 10.4236/as.2016.73015. [accessed April 1, 2016]
New Links to Online Publications - April 2016
(For Research articles, see section above)
- Garris, Amanda. 2016. International Call: Sambel Kunda, The Gambia. PeriodCALS 6:1. April.
Recent Documents Uploaded / New Pages on our Website - April 2016
- Jenkins, Devon. 2016. Meet Kinsa Sidibeh, an SRI farmer in Central River Region South, The Gambia. SRI-Rice website. April 27. [uploaded Apirl 26, 2016]
- Fisher, Lucy. 2016. Earth Day: Farmers using the System of Rice Intensification are doing their part. SRI-Rice website. April 22. [Updated version of an Earth Day article orignally published in 2012.]
- 2016. Global adoption of SRI in 2016. SRI-Rice website. [Map of the countries adopting SRI (and how much) as of 2016. [uploaded April 21, 2016]
- 2016. Championing the Champions: Filming SRI in the Global South (flyer). SRI-Rice website. April 21. (1p., 442KB pdf) [Flyer for the May 2, 2016, seminar at Cornell by Sue Price and Declan McCormack.]
- Fisher, Lucy. 2016. Videos about the System of Rice Intensification. SRI-Rice website. April 22. [Update on SRi-Rice video library.]
- Mara, Hillary. 2016. New Book: The System of Rice Intensification (SRI), Responses to Frequently Asked Questions by Dr. Norman Uphoff. SRI-Rice website. April 4.
- Fisher, Lucy. 2015. March 2016 additions to the SRI-Rice website. New page on the SRI-Rice website. [uploaded April 16.]
Videos/Audio - Additions to SRI-Rice Playlists - April 2016
- Video: 2016 (April 26). System of Rice Intensification in the Philippines. Ferdinand Zamora channel, YouTube. [SRI explanation with some commentary by Eddy Pedroso Canyuto.]
- Video: 2016. (April 16). SRI paddy Success story Banswara 6:43 min. digitalgreenorg channel, YouTube. [Farmer testimonials about SRI in Rajasthan]
- Video: 2016. (April 12). SRI Transplantation_JSLPS_DG_Sadri_Jharkhand. 8:55 min. digitalgreenorg channel, YouTube. [Women in Jharkhand demonstrating transplanting using both bamboo grids and rope method of marking.]
- Video: 2016. (April 12). SRI Seed Treatment JSLPS DG Sadri Jharkhand . 11:42 min. digitalgreenorg channel, YouTube. [Women in Jharkhand demonstrating seed selection prior to sowing the nursery.]
- Video: 2014 (February 12). CODEGAZ agit pour les populations du Cambodge par la promotion du SRI. 49:48 min. CODEGAZVIDEO channel, YouTube. [accessed April 13, 2016]
- Video: 2014 (January 28). CODEGAZ et la genèse du SRI (système de riziculture intensive) à Madagascar. 21:39 min. CODEGAZVIDEO channel, YouTube. [Video by the French NGO Codegaz about their SRI work in Madagascar. Le film décrit comment un homme a amélioré la culture du riz un peu par hasard.... pour mettre en oeuvre un système aujourd'hui mondialement reconnu] [accessed April 13, 2016]
- Video: 2015 (October 13). Le Système de riziculture Intensive dans la région de Kaffrine, Senegal. 1:58 min. Abdoulaye SY channel, YouTube. [Le SRI en grande diffusion dans la zone pluviale, bassin arachidier du Sénégal.] [accessed April 13, 2016]
Presentations - PowerPoint - April 2016
- None this month
