December 2016 - Additions to the SRI-Rice Website
(Links to online material)
• SRI-RICE STATISTICS FOR December 2016:
SRI-Rice website: 3,199 unique visitors (3,659 last month) from 87 countries (91 last month) logged 4,154 sessions (4,752 last month) in which 7,582 pages (8,832 last month) were viewed. [Top ten user countries in order of sessions: India, USA, Philippines, Malaysia, Nigeria, Indonesia, Tanzania, Nepal, German and UK.]
Facebook pages: 1) SRI-Rice: All-time likes 2,166. 2) SRI Equipment Innovators Exchange: 306 members (1 new) 3) SRI West Africa: 2,253 members (67 new)
YouTube (primary): 2,783 (2,533 last month) new views this month for our 88 uploads. 380 views for our 41 playlists (not including our India YouTube channel). 315 subscribers (8 new). [NOTE!: The 8 India playlists from the SRI India video channel are now accessible on the main SRI-Rice video channel].
Twitter: 1,538 followers (4 new this month)
Slideshare: 9,343 (9587 last month) views new this month; 461 slideshows/posters total uploaded (2 new), 203 followers
Research Databases: There are 1,047 items in our new Zotero research database (11 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 December 2016: 2016, DR Congo, Ghana, Guinea, India news, Nepal, Sierra Leone, Tanzania, Vietnam, SRI-Rice news, research, journal articles, SSI page, theses, videos, HP, about us, November additions
News from past months
In the Press - December 2016
- Save water to get full power subsidy, farmers in UT told [Puducherry Minister of Agriculture and Power said only farmers who adopt water-conservation schemes such as SRI, drip irrigation, etc., would be given cent per cent power subsidy.]
December 30, 2016, New Indian Express (Puducherry, India) - Paddy production in Morang highest in five years [Chief of the District Agricultural Development Office, Morang district, said that paddy area is shrinking (only 92,000 hectares), but paddy production has increased to 382,713 tons this year, up 14% from last year. SRI is increasing and has helped increase paddy production is in Morang district.]
December 29, 2016, myRepublica (Morang, Nepal) - Agricultural production increases [Area under SRI in Manipur, which began 2001-02, has increased to 40,560 ha in 2015-16.]
December 28, 2016, The Sangai Express (Manipur, India) - Potential Linked Credit Plan for Dharmapuri released [Dharmapuri district subsidies could be available for SRI and other "hitech" ag practices.]
December 23, 2016, The Hindu (Tamil Nadu, India)
- Bercocok tanam padi SRI lebih ramah lingkungan [Andalas University and govt. officials discuss SRI research in Paskumbuh, West Sumatera; promote SRI to farmer groups.] December 17, Bertuahpos.com (West Sumatera, Indonesia)
- Petani Lamsel panen raya padi organik hemat air [Farmers' group in Lampung Selatan harvested a 5 ha. demplot of organic SRI with 50% water savings and 6 ton/ha yield.]
December 9, 2016, Lampung Post (Lampung, Indonesia) - African Economic Conference closes with call for agriculture to be at the centre of Africa’s development [Top paper was Mintewab Bezabih's “Climate change perception and system of rice intensification (SRI) in Tanzania: A moment approximation approach.]
December 9, 2016, African Herald Express (Nigeria)
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La Conférence économique africaine s’achève sur un appel à mettre l’agriculture au cœur du développement de l’Afrique
December 8, 2016, Financial Afrik (Africa) [Top paper was Mintewab Bezabih's “Climate change perception and system of rice intensification (SRI) in Tanzania: A moment approximation approach.] - Aerobic transplanting technique [SRI and aerobic transplanting scaled up to 400 acres tail-end village cluster of Cauvery]
December 5, 2016, The Hans India (Karnataka, India) - AKAR Lutim ajak petani kembangkan padi organik [Head of the Organic Community Association (AKAR) urges farmers to adopt SRI in Luwu Timur]
December 3, 2016, Tribun Lutim [Sulawesi Selatan, Indonesia] - Project improves rice growing in mountainous areas in Quang Nam
December 1, 2016, Vietnam Breaking News (Vietnam)
Blog Posts and Website Articles - accessed during December 2016
- 2016. "ข้าวต้นเดียว" S.R.I. เปิดทางเกษตรกร เปลี่ยนกระบวนทัศน์สู่ "เกษตรอินทรีย์". Progress TH website. February 19. [Thai article accessed December 28, 2016]
- Mazao. 2016. Forest Food Revolution. Mazao Newsletter, December 2016 issue. [Section on "Mazao’s rice in Kalemie, a success gained on the field" documents how SRI is part of the keeping the peace between the Bantus and the Pygmies.]
- MITTRA. 2016. Case Studies - Wadi and improved agriculture. Maharashtra Institute of Technology Transfer for Rural Areas (MITTRA) website. [Story of Arvind Bapurao Dhote, a Maharashtra farmer who is putting his whole paddy crop into SRI after a trial year.]
- Romann, Alfred, and Carnen Ho. 2016. Innovations ratchet up rice production. Dawn website. December 26. [Includes info on AgSri's work with SRI in Kenya.]
- Oxfam. 2016. How your donation to Oxfam is worth more: Five highlights. Oxfam blog. December 23. [In Cambodia, Oxfam investment of $3.7 million in SRI during the past decade has returned $3 for every $1 invested. In Vietnam, collaboration with the agriculture ministry has helped Oxfam reach 800,000 small-scale farmers and through them added $100 million to the rural economy. We estimate that over the same 10-year period, we have invested $3.5 million in SRI in Vietnam, which has returned $30 for every $1 donors invested.
- Aferin, Sabnam, and Kanna K. Siripurapu. 2016. This unique farming technique doubled the rice produce of an entire village in Odisha. The Better India. December 19.
- Wambu, Onyekachi. 2016. African Economic Conference closes with call for agriculture to be at the centre of Africa’s development. NewAfrican. December 7. (Article also on the ADB website.) [Paper on SRI in Tanzania wins top paper at conference.]
- Hayley, Andrea. 2016. Going against the grain. Epoch Times. December 2. [With the Green Revolution failing, Cornell professor Norman Uphoff is offering a better way to feed the world]
Latest Research / Journal Articles / Theses - links acquired during December 2016
(in order of acquisition. See also complete alphabetized list of journal articles.)
[Note: • Red dot indicates the publication is freely available.]
- Ganai, Manzoor A., M. Anwar Bhat, et al. 2016. Effect of water regimes and weed management practices on nutrient uptake by rice and weeds under the system of rice intensification. Applied Biological Research 18(3): 277-283. doi:10.5958/0974-4517.2016.00043.4
- • Pascual, Victoriano Joesph, and Yu-Min Wang. 2016. Evaluation for high water productivity and yield assessment of lowland paddy rice under controlled drainage and irrigation using the System of Rice Intensification (SRI). International Journal of Scientific & Technology Research 5(11): 263-268. [accessed December 31, 2016]
- Wibowo, Alan Dwi, Isti Surjandari, and Armand Omar Moeis. 2016. Rice availability policy for industrial region: Study in Kalimantan Selatan. Universitas Lambung Magkurat (South Kalimantan) digital repository. (abstract only available) [accessed December 31, 2016]
- • Labonite, Marina A., Jose Labonite, and Severeno Salera. 2003. Yield response of Philippine Seed Board rice cultivars (PSC RC) to System of Rice Intensification (SRI) technology under irrigated alkaline soil condition. Kaplag 1(1): 30-36. [accessed December 27, 2016]
- • Narayan, S. S. 2016. Effect of age of seedlings on aromatic rice (Oryza sativa L.) varieties under system of rice intensification. M. Sc. (Ag.) thesis, Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi (India). (128 p. 10.7 MB pdf) [accessed December 27, 2016]
- • Khan, Azad Hussain. 2016. Studies on effect of system of rice intensification on the yield of CMS and restorer lines under the organic and inorganic management. PhD dissertation, G.B. Pant University of Agriculture and Technology (Pantnagar, Uttarakhand, India) (205p., 8.44MB pdf) [accessed December 27, 2016]
- Gandroli, Vandana A., and Jagdeesh G. Angadi. 2016. Advances in Life Sciences 5(8): 3121-3123. Effectiveness of videoshow and its combinations in promotion of SRI (System of Rice Intensification) method of paddy cultivation. Advances in Life Sciences 5(8): 3121-3123. [accessed December 27, 2016]
- • Baruah, Amvrin. 2015. A comparative study of System of Rice Intensification (SRI) and conventional method of rice cultivation in Assam. PhD dissertation, Banaras Hindu University (India) (113p., 4.34 MB pdf) [accessed December 27, 2016]
- • Rajendran, T. 2016. Impact of System of Rice Intensification [SRI] technology in Tamil Nadu. International Journal of Advanced Multidisciplinary Research 3(12): 1-5. doi:10.22192/ijamr.2016.03.12.001 [accessed December 27, 2016]
- • Wayayok, Aimrun, and Umar Mohammed, et al. 2017. Comparative study on the performance of rice seedlings raised by single seedling nursery tray method and conventional system. American Journal of Plant Biology 2(1): 1-4.[accessed December 27, 2016]
- • Lamtinhoi, Hoinu Kipgen. 2016. Coping with climate change - The story of the Maltos of Jharkhand. Economic & Political Weekly 51(52): Dec. 2016. [accessed December 27, 2016]
- • Uprety, Rajendra. 2016. Agricultural intensification in Nepal, with particular reference to systems of rice intensification. PhD dissertation, Wageningen University (The Netherlands). doi:10.18174/392853 (204p. pdf) [accessed December 18, 2016]
- • Mark, Ariel. 2016. Ex-post analysis of the innovation diffusion process of the “System of Rice Intensification”: Case study the Volta Region of Ghana. Master's thesis. University for Sustainable Development Eberswalde (Germany). (94p., 9,03MB pdf). [accessed December 18, 2016]
- • Khadka, Ram B., Hari P. Acharya, and Norman Uphoff. 2014. Performance of landrace and improved rice varieties under the System of Rice Intensification management in Bajhang district of Nepal. Journal of Agriculture and Environment 15: 1-10. [accessed December 12, 2016]
New Links to Publications and Uploads on our Website- December 2016
- Aruna, Gerald. 2016. Conventional krain krain cultivation. SRI-Rice website. (2p, 942KB pdf) [Report by Gerald Aruna from the NGO ENGIM Internazionale about applying SCI principles to the local krain krain leafy vegetable in Sierra Leone.] [uploaded December 31, 2016]
- Radha, T. M. 2016. One man mission – A farmer educator spreads agroecology. LEISA India 18(4): 22-24. December issue [Story of Pradeep Kumar, a middle school headmaster and farmer who has been spreading SRI and other agroecology techniques in Odisha since 2000.]
- Bhattacharjee, Suchiradipta, and Saravanan Raj. 2016. Stakeholders in SRI innovation systems. LEISA India 18(4): 6-9. December issue) [SRI development in Tripura, India]
- Belfort, Sarah. 2016. System of Rice Intensification in Vietnam: Doing more with less. Agroecology in Action profile. Agroecology Knowledge Hub. FAO website. (see also the pdf) [This piece was submitted by Oxfam.] [accessed December 31, 2016]
- Varma, Poornima. 2017. Rice productivity and food security in India:
A study of the System of Rice Intensification. Springer. [Printed eBook: $ 24.99. Hardcover: €114,99; $139.00]
Videos/Audio - December 2016
- Video: 2016 (November). ECHO Multiplication Effect Video - Jean Apedoh (SRI). ECHO Inc. channel, Vimeo. (In French with English translation) [Jean Apedoh explains how he found SRI and how it's spreading in Togo.]
- Video: 2016 (December 17). Kumar Neeraj – Khetee, India. 1:15 min. kanthariTV - Videos of kanthari channel, YouTube. [English language clip from Khetee organization in Bihar, India, encouraging people to adopt SRI.]
- Video: 2016 (December 8). Success story of New Rice variety MTU-1129 farming in SRI method by Maganti Seetarama Dasu. 20:50 min. Express TV channel,YouTube. [Telugu language TV clip]
Presentations - PowerPoint - December 2016
- Khadka, Ram Bahadur. 2016. New Directions for the System of Rice Intensification (SRI) in Nepal: Mechanization and Biofertilizers. 21 slides. Presentation at the SRI-Rice seminar series. Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, December 9. SRI-Rice channel, Slideshare.net.
- Bin Harun, Abdul Halim, and Bryan Noel Sabinus. 2016? MuSoW Machine (muddy soil weeding machine). Universiti Kuala Lumpur website. [Presentation of a weeder developed for SRI at Universiti Kuala Lumpur]
