August 2016 - Additions to the SRI-Rice Website
(Links to online material)
• SRI-RICE STATISTICS FOR AUGUST 2016:
SRI-Rice website: 3,950 unique visitors (3,603 last month) from 96 countries (89 last month) logged 4,942 sessions (4,670 last month) in which 9,035 pages (8,820 last month) were viewed. [Top ten user countries: India, USA, Philippines, Tanzania, UK, Indonesia, Thailand, Malaysia, Australia, and Myanmar]
Facebook pages: 1) SRI-Rice: All-time likes 2,086 (34 new this month). 2) SRI Equipment Innovators Exchange: 297 members (10 new) 3) SRI West Africa: 2,045 members (678 new)
YouTube (primary): Views for August: 2,051 new this month for our 67 uploads. 359 views for our 41 playlists (not including our India YouTube channel). 273 subscribers (13 new). [NOTE!: The 8 India playlists from the SRI India video channel are now accessible on the main SRI-Rice video channel).
Twitter: 1,492 followers (28 new this month)
Slideshare: 10,331 (33,609 last month) views new this month 455 slideshows/posters total uploaded, 201 followers
Research Databases:
There are 966 items in our new Zotero research database (24 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
• See: SRI-Rice Center news for updates on our program's staff, students and activities
• SRI-Rice web pages updated during August 2016: 2016, Cambodia, Guinea, Haiti, Indonesia, India, Kenya, Madagascar, Malaysia, Nepal, Senegal, Tanzania, about us, contacts, home page, events, staff news, July news, events, features, seminars, journal articles, India journal articles, staff news, theses, videos.
News from past months
In the Press - August 2016
- Pemkab Beltim berupaya tingkatkan produksi padi [UPSUS Program to promote SRI.]
August 30, 2016, SinarPagiNews (Bangka-Belitung, Indonesia) - Kagodu urges farmers to go in for crop diversification practices [Vice-Chancellor of UAHS, said .. it is necessary to popularise SRI as one option to deal with water shortage.]
August 30, 2016, The Hindu (Karnataka, India) - Metode SRI soft component jadikan Desa Sirangkang sukses panen [Several govt agencies attend successful harvest in Sirangkang, Pemalang, Jawa Tengah. Three farmers got over 9 tons/ha.]
August 26(?), 2016, HarianJateng (Central Java, Indonesia) - Paddy mission programme falls flat [Nepal failed to reach rice targets; 13 districts were part of program to promote SRI.]
August 25, 2016, The Himalayan Times (Nepal) - Feeding Kenya is not all about maize
August 24, 2016, Standard Digital (Kenya) - L’agriculture moderne désormais à la portée des agriculteurs haïtiens [Feed the Future has been working with SRI since 2010]
August 21, 2015, Le National (Haiti) - ‘TN’s record in foodgrain output unprecedented’ [In the last five years, 11,880 villages in Tamil Nadu were covered by SRI as a whole village concept; 27.20 lakh acres were brought SRI, which helped it produce a yield of 4,429 kg/ha; this year 3,000 more villages are covered by SRI.]
August 20, 2016, The Hindu (Tamil Nadu, India) - Record caFe: We’re open to private partnership for GM crop research: ICAR DG [In an interview largely on GM, Director General of ICAR acknowledges that SRI and direct seeding can reduce methane.]
August 18, 2016, The Financial Express (India) - Mise à l’échelle du Sri – Le Prodam en visite dans les périmètres agricoles de Diowol
August 17, 2016, La Vie Senegalaise (Senegal) - Government promoting millet cultivation in a big way [ATMA promoting System of Ragi Intensification in tribal areas.]
August 12, 2016, The Hans India (Andhra Pradesh, India) - Desperate times for Cambodia's farmers
August 9, 2016, The Diplomat (Cambodia) - “Go beyond production” - IFAD President on value addition for agribusiness. [IFAD pres. Dr. Kanayo F. Nwanze visited the CHAP SRI project in Liberia]
August 8, 2016, Capitol Times Online (Liberia) - Tanpa subsidi, harga beras Kamboja lebih murah dari Indonesia
August 8, 2016, Tempo.Co (Indonesia) - Le SRI pour augmenter la production rizicole dans l’Artibonite
August 7, 2016, Le National (Haiti) - ‘Focus on less water-intensive paddy cultivation practices’
August 6, 2016, The Hindu (Karnataka, India) - SRI organik hasilkan 7.200 kg gabah
August 3, 2016, Suara Merdeka, (Central Java, Indonesia) - Itasy: introduction réussie du SRI
August 2, 2016, News Mada (Madagascar) - Récolte rizicole 2016 : Un rendement moyen de 11 tonnes à l’hectare à Morarano Antongona
August 2, 2016, Midi-Madagaskara (Madagascar)
Blog Posts and Website Articles - accessed during August 2016
- Essabra-mensah. 2016. Ghana's local rice gets quality certification logo. Essabra's stories blog. August 31. [Ghana Rice Inter-Professional Body (GRIB) has developed a certification logo, and is promoting SRI to improve the quality of local rice.]
- Rawat, Bhim Singh. 2016. DRP News Bulletin 29 August 2016 - WHEN DAMS CAUSE FLOODS. SANDRP website. August 29. [Ag section reports that in the last five years, 11,880 villages were covered by SRI as a whole village concept and 27.20 lakh acres used SRI, helping to get a yield of 4,429 kg / hectare; 3,000 more villages will add SRI this year.
- Kurunganti, Kavitha. 2016. Improving India’s oilseeds production. DownToEarth. August 23. [There is clear evidence that large scale adoption of agro-ecological methods like System of Crop Intensification (SCI, or also referred to as System of Mustard Intensification when it is deployed in this crop) will not only increase productivity but also reduce use of water resources, and reduce cost of cultivation for farmers.]
- WAAPP. 2016. Senegal adopts Climate Smart Agriculture to mitigate effects of climate change. West Africa Agricultural Productivity Program website. [SRI one of the options noted along with improved seed for other crops in CSA measures promoted by WAAPP.] [accessed August 23, 2016]
- 2016. Tips budidaya padi organik dengan metode SRI. Cara Mengobati website. August 18. [Short SRI instructions for organic SRI; in Bahasa Indonesia.]
- Rashid, Nur Fatiehah Abdul. 2016. Padi organik SRI Lovely. Utusan Online, July 18. [accessed August 17, 2016]
- 2016. (Maybe August?). Program Hibah Bina Desa tanam padi metode SRI. Politcknik Negeri Jember website. [Jember students plant SRI as part of program to add hard skills to their higher education.]
- 2016. REDD+ in the Congo: It has to be cost effective. Woods Hole Research Center website. August 9. [SRI part of WHRC's Projet Équateur's REDD+ strategy in the DRC's Équateur province.]
- 2016. First-ever skill development workshop on settled cultivation held at Chandigre, Garo Hills. Wildlife Trust of India website. [Workshop on SRI and ICM on settled cultivation organized by WTI, ICAR and WLT in Meghalaya's Faro Hills Autonomous District.]
- Bodhi, Bhikku. 2016. Using less to get more: Crop intensification in Ethiopia. Buddhist Global Relief website. August 11. [Buddhist Global Relief and Oxfam partner to use SCI methods for vegetables in Ethiopia.]
- Govindwad, Vishnukant. 2016. How a tribal community In MP united to protect their only source of livelihood. August 5.
- Price, Sue, and Declan McCormack. 2016. SRI4Women website. August 1. [New website focused on women and SRI; their major project is making a documentary about SRI and women.]
Latest Research / Journal Articles / Theses - links acquired during August 2016
(in order of acquisition. See also complete alphabetized list of journal articles.)
[Note: • Red dot indicates the publication is freely available.]
- Fazlia, 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
- • Sridevi, V, V. Chellamuthu. 2015. Nutrient harvest index and soil available nutrients of rice (Oryza Sativa) as influenced by System of Rice Intensification (Sri) practices. International Journal of Scientific Research 4(6): 744-746. [accessed August 15, 2016]
- • Othman, Siti Norezam, Zakirah Othman, et al. 2016. Sustainable rice production and its impact on the rice value chain: A case study of rural paddy farm in Kedah. Paper presented at the 2016 International Conference on Applied Science and Technology (ICAST 2016), April 11-13, Kedah, Malaysia. doi: 10.1063/1.4960840 [accessed August 12, 2016]
- • Dwibedi, Sanat Kumar, Gopal Chandra De, and Sudhi Ranjan Dhua. 2017. Dynamics of soil chemical properties influenced by sowing time, systems of cultivation and genotypes of kharif rice in coastal Odisha. Environment & Ecology 34(1) : 1201-1206. [accessed August 11, 2016]
- • Dwibedi, S. K., G. C. De and S. R Dhua. 2016. Weed dynamics and grain yield as influenced by sowing time and system of cultivation of rice genotypes. Journal of Crop and Weed 12(1): 107-111. [accessed August 2, 2016]
- • Dwibedi, Sanat Kumar, Gopal Chandra De, and Sudhi Ranjan Dhua. 2017. Correlation between vegetative parameters and yield with weed biomass of kharif rice genotypes at varying dates of sowing and systems of cultivation in coastal Odisha. Environment & Ecology 35(1) : 35-39. [accessed August 2, 2016]
- Kassam, Amir, and Hugh Brammer. 2016. Environmental implications of three modern agricultural practices: Conservation Agriculture, the System of Rice Intensification and Precision Agriculture. International Journal of Environmental Studies (in press, online July 19, 2016) doi: 10.1080/00207233.2016.1185329 [accessed August 1, 2016]
- Mohapatra, Sanjukta, A. K. Mohanty, et al. 2016. Integrated weed management under modified water regimes in System of Rice Intensification. Indian Journal of Weed Science 48(1): 17-20. doi:10.5958/0974-8164.2016.00003.4 [accessed August 1, 2016]
Recent Documents Uploaded / New Pages on our Website - August 2016
- Mara, Hillary. 2016. SRI in Guinea: Training extension agents, farmers, community leaders, and Peace Corps Volunteers. August 24 feature article, SRI-Rice website. [Article on Hillary Mara's 2016 SRI trainings with NGOs and the Peace Corps in Guinea, West Africa.]
Videos/Audio - Additions to SRI-Rice Playlists - August 2016
- Video: 2016 (August 25). Serumpun Padi Sejuta Harapan - SRI Organik Mahalona. 7:28 min. PT Vale Indonesia Tbk channel, YouTube. [Indonesian language video about PT Vale's project to promote SRI in Mahalona, Kabupaten Luwu Timur, South Sulawesi, Indonesia.]
- Video: 2016 (August 22). Tanam Padi Pola SRI Dengan Cara Maju. 6:01 min. rahmat adinata channel, YouTube. [Indonesian language video about SRI in the SPARC program, in Praimadita Village, Sumba Timur, NTT, Indonesia.]
- Video: 2016 (July 11). SRI CEDAC. 24:05 min. Agriculture Information channel, YouTube. [Khmer language video comparing SRI methods with traditional methods.] [accessed August 19, 2016]
- Video: 2016 (August 16). Visite du PRODAM dans les périmètres agricoles de Diowol. 12:19 min. La Vie Senegalaise channel. [French language video about SRI in the PRODAM program in Diowol, Senegal.]
- Video: 2016 (August 8). Tanam Padi SRI. 8:38 min. Yusuf Himura channel. [Field instructions on how to prepare a seedbed and plant a field with young, single seedlings.]
- Video: 2016 (July 26). A system of rice intensification has changed my life. OxfamTanzania channel. YouTube.
- Video: 2016 (February 4). Bon metod pou plante diri. 12:07 min. Feed The Future Haiti Chanje Lavi Plantèr channel, YouTube. [Creole video about SRI in the Feed The Future Haiti Chanje Lavi Plantèr project in Haiti.] [accessed August 3, 2016]
Presentations - PowerPoint - August 2016
- None this month
