February 2016 - Additions to the SRI-Rice Website
(Links to online material)
• SRI-RICE STATISTICS FOR FEBRUARY 2016:
SRI-Rice website: 3,209 unique visitors (3,368 last month) from 93 countries logged 4,159 sessions in which 8,231 pages (8,182 last month) were viewed.
Facebook pages: 1) SRI-Rice: All-time likes 1,861 (19 new this month). 2) SRI Equipment Innovators Exchange: 269 members (2 new this month)
YouTube (primary): Total views: 1,918 new this month (63,622 for past 6 years) for our 66 uploads. 2,495 views during February of our 27 playlists (not including our India YouTube channel). 218 subscribers.
Twitter: 25 new followers this month (1,371 total followers).
Slideshare: 8,257 views new this month (551,821 total for past 6 years); 447 slideshows/posters total uploaded, 194 followers.
Research Databases:
There are 821 items in our new Zotero research database (10 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 February 2016: Benin, Burkina Faso, India, Indonesia, Iraq, Kenya, Philippines, Tanzania, 2016, features, new feature (SRI-WAAPP), videos, FAQs, journal articles, india journals, India news, January 2016 web additions, home page, SRI-rice news, 2012 staff news, 2013 staff news, 2014 staff news, 2015 staff news, journals.
News from past months
In the Press - February 2016
- Mixed cropping, organic farming and water saving technologies help Naidu turn barren land into a green farm
February 29, 2016, The Weekend Leader (Telangana, India) - Young tribal woman inspires Odisha’s farming community
February 27, 2016, India Matters (Odisha, India) - Bali kembangkan klaster ketahanan pangan
February 28, 2016, Republika (Bali, Indonesia) - Tanam padi metode SRI hemat pupuk [Magelang regency maps 36,882 ha. of SRI fields]
February 15, 2016, Suara Merdeka Cetak (Jawa Tengah, Indonesia) - VC SKUAST-K asks KVKs to take research to field
February 11, 2016, Kashmir Reader (Kashmir, India) - Nothing to beat black rice
February 9, 2016, The Hindu BusinessLine (India) - ทำนาให้น้ำแบบผัก
February 8, 2016, Thairath.co.th website (Thailand) - Out goes paddy rice farming, in comes a new efficient method [SRI trainings by Indian team in Ahero irrigation Scheme.]
February 5, 2016, Daily Nation (Kenya) - Uji coba tanam padi organik bisa hasilkan 9,7 ton per hektare [Trials with mentik wangi variety yield 9.7 tons/ha with organic SRI in Pati Regency]
February 4, 2016, Republika Online (Jawa Tengah, Indonesia) - SRI technique adopted by this teacher-farmer yields CM award [Madurai farmer has highest paddy yield for 2014-15 using SRI.]
February 3, 2016, The Hindu (Tamil Nadu, India) - Tahun 2016, Aceh Utara targetkan 489 ton lebih produksi padi [For 2016, 489,926 tons of paddy are targeted to be produced with SRI in North Aceh regency.]
February 3, 2016, WOL (Aceh, Indonesia) - Petani Pati sukses panen padi mentik wangi organik 9,7 ton [Central Java farmer groups gets 9.7 ton yield with organic SRI and mentik wangi variety]
February 3, 2016, MuriaNewsCom (Jawa Tengah, Indonesia) [See similar article in Antara News]
Blog Posts and Website Articles - accessed during February 2016
- Razack Lokina. 2016. The impact of the System of Rice Intensification on small-holder farmers’ welfare: Does partial adoption matter? Environment for Development (EfD) Initiative website. February 19. [Description of an EfD study will assess the determinants of partial adoption dynamics and its impact implications on yield and farm profit among rice farmers in Morogoro region of Tanzania.]
- Webber, Wendy. 2016. Buddhist Global Relief gives "the gift of life" by fighting hunger throughout the world. Foundation Beyond Belief website. February 1. [Buddhist Global Reliefs mission to combat global hunger involves grants for farmers to adopt SRI in Cambodia.]
Latest Research / Journal Articles / Theses - links acquired during February 2016
(in order of acquisition. See also complete alphabetized list of journal articles.)
[Note: • Red dot indicates the publication is freely available.]
- Singh, D. K., Z. Akhtar, S. Gupta, et al. 2016. Production strategies of organic basmati rice in Tarai region of Uttarakhand, India. Organic Agriculture. January (2016) 1-10. doi:10.1007/s13165-015-0143-1. [accessed February 2016]
- • Alam, Md. Jahangir, Najrul Islam, and Md. Abdur Rahman Sarker. 2015. Effect of age of seedling and depth of transplanting on the performance of transplant aman rice under System of Rice Intensification. Bangladesh Research Publications Journal 11(4): 288-293. [accessed February 2016]
- Suryavanshi, P., and Y. V. Singh. 2015. Changes in plant growth and nutritional quality of rice varieties under different methods of cultivation. Trends in Biosciences 8(3): 699–705. [accessed February 2016]
- • Krishna, V. Hari. 2016. Effectiveness of behavior of rice farmers in propagating System of Rice Intensification in Andhra Pradesh. Indian Research Journal of Extension Education 16(1): 85–91. [accessed February 2016]
- Sangeetha, C., A. Velayutham, and N. Thavaprakaash. 2015. Impact of different crop-establishment methods and weed management practices on productivity of lowland rice (Oryza sativa). Indian Journal of Agronomy 60(3): 414–419. [accessed February 2016]
- Jat, A. L., V. K. Srivastava, and Singh Rajesh Kumar. 2015. Effect of crop-establishment methods and integrated nitrogen management on productivity of hybrid rice (Oryza sativa)-wheat (Triticum aestivum) cropping system. Indian Journal of Agronomy 60(3): 341–46. [accessed February 2016]
- • Ahmad, Fayaz, and Hamayoon Khan. 2016. Effect of different fertilizer treatments on the performance of some local rice varieties under SRI (System of Rice Intensification) and conventional management practices at district Swat. Pure Applied Biology 5(1): 37–47. doi:10.19045/bspab.2016.50006. [accessed February 2016]
- • (Hameed, Khidhir Abbas. 2016. Report on a thesis on the System of Rice Intensification (SRI) in Iraq. SRI-Rice website.) [Report of trials by Laith Naeem Hassoni conducted on irrigation and organic inputs effect on SRI at the Al-Mishkhab Rice Research Station in Iraq. Full thesis is forthcoming] (4p., 3.04MB pdf)
- • Batara, Lily Noviani. 2015. Kualitas mikroorganisme lokal (Mol) yang digunakan pada penanaman padi (Oryza sativa L.) dengan metode System of Rice Intensification (Sri) organik (Quality of Indigenous Microbes (IMO) in Rice (Oryza sativa L.) cultivation of organic System of Rice Intensification Method). Master's thesis. Bogor Agricultural University, Indonesia. (60p, 16.74MB pdf) [accessed February 15, 2016]
- • Rufako, Ulya. 2015. Produktivitas lahan dan air pada padi sawah dengan berbagai sistem irigasi (Land and water productivities of paddy fields under various irrigation regimes). Master's thesis. Bogor Agricultral University (IPB) Indonesia. (29p., 8.38MB pdf) [accessed February 15, 2016]
New Links to Online Publications - February 2016
(For Research articles, see section above)
- Uphoff, Norman. 2015. The System of Rice Intensification (SRI) - Responses to Frequently Asked Questions. Amazon.com. (226p.) [Note: The hard copy from Amazon costs $37.19; an online version is available for free - see information below]
Recent Documents Uploaded on our Website - February 2016
- Uphoff, Norman. 2015. The System of Rice Intensification (SRI) - Responses to Frequently Asked Questions (updated version). SRI-Rice website. (226p 10MB pdf) [Note: a hardcopy version is available on Amazon.com for $37:19; see information above]
- Hameed, Khidhir Abbas. 2016. Report on a thesis on the System of Rice Intensification (SRI) in Iraq. SRI-Rice website. [Report of trials by Laith Naeem Hassoni conducted on irrigation and organic inputs effect on SRI at the Al-Mishkhab Rice Research Station in Iraq. Full thesis is forthcoming] (4p., 3.04MB pdf)
- Ayedegue, Lionel, Antonin Akiyoko, and Rachidatou Boukari. 2016. Rapport final du projet d'integration regional de vulgarisation et/ Adoption du Systeme de Riziculture Intensif (SRI) dan 4 pays WAAPP (Benin, Togo, Burkina-Faso et Niger). SRI-Rice website. (43p., 2.09MB pdf) [Final report for a regional extension project for adoption of the System of Rice Intensification (SRI) in Benin, Togo, Burkina Faso and Niger by the NGO DeDESC in Benin (French)] [upploaded Feburary 8, 2016.]
- Fisher, Lucy. 2015. January 2016 additions to the SRI-Rice website. New page on the SRI-Rice website.
Videos/Audio - Additions to SRI-Rice Playlists - February 2016
- Video: 2016 (March 1). SRI-System of Rice Intensification in BB ស្រូវ ប វ ស នៅខេត្តបាត់ដំបង ដោយយ៉ងសាំងកុមារ. 1:54 min. Thann Thor channel, YouTube. [Cooperating farmer in Battambang, Cambodia, talking about his rice farming in this season under our support. He is one of the 15 landless farmers who participate in this project.]
- Video: 2016 (February 29). សំណាបជាពេជ្រ SRI- System of Rice Intensification. 0:30 min. Thann Thor channel, YouTube. [Song about SRI in Cambodia]
Presentations - PowerPoint - February 2016
- 2016. Scaling Up Climate-smart Rice Production in West Africa. SRI-Rice channel, Slideshare.net. 52 slides. Presentation by Erika Styger at the Issues in African Development Weekly Seminar Series, Uris Hall, Cornell University on Feburary 11, 2016.
