March 2016 - Additions to the SRI-Rice Website
(Links to online material)
• SRI-RICE STATISTICS FOR MARCH 2016:
SRI-Rice website: 3,705 unique visitors (3,209 last month) from 99 countries logged 4,688 sessions in which 8,891 pages (8,231 last month) were viewed.
Facebook pages: 1) SRI-Rice: All-time likes 1,892 (31 new this month). 2) SRI Equipment Innovators Exchange: 268 members
YouTube (primary): Total views: 2,062 new this month (65,463 for past 6 years) for our 66 uploads. 1,634 views during March of our 29 playlists (2 new) (not including our India YouTube channel). 223 subscribers. [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: 30 new followers this month (1,401 total followers).
Slideshare: 10,451 views new this month450 slideshows/posters total uploaded, 196 followers.
Research Databases:
There are 866 items in our new Zotero research database (56 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 March 2016: journals, 2016, Benin, Cambodia, India research, Indonesia, Iraq, Iraq Archives, Kenya, Tanzania, Thailand, Togo, journals, about us, events, home page, extmat, methods, projects page, February updates, January 2016 updates, staff news 2016, staff news 2015, research index, features, theses, WAAPP feature.
News from past months
In the Press - March 2016
- Nasyit Umar: Dengan program SRI, petani panen 4 kali setahun
March 24, 2016, Fajar (Indonesia) - Fraksi Demokrat dorong program SRI yang mampu tingkatkan panen padi [SRI promoted by member of the Democratic Party in House of Representatives session.]
March 23, 2016, Detik News (Surabaya, Indonesia) - Wow! Tanam padi organik sistem SRI, petani di Pati bisa panen 3,7 ton tiap setengah hektare
March 18, 2016, Tribun Jateng (Central Java, Indonesia) - Bocah SD di Sukolilo Pati Ini Riang gembira tanam padi organik
March 18, 2016, Tribun Jateng (Central Java, Indonesia) - ミャンマーのニュース
【ミャンマー】子どもたちの未来のために、学校教育支援 [SRI included in education program in Myanmar]
March 11, 2016, Global News Asia (Myanmar) - GMR shows industry, agriculture can co-exist in Odisha [GMR Kamalanga Energy Limited (GKEL) supports SRI and other ag projects in Odisha]
March 7, 2016, Business Today (Odisha, India) - Imkonglemba on success story of SRI method
March 6, 2016, Morung Express (Nagaland, India) - Sowing the seed of hope [Woman farmer from Tiruppali wins high yield award with SRI]
March 3, 2016, The Hindu (Tamil Nadu, India) - Mentan kagumi pertanian Purworejo [Minister of Agriculture visits and is statisfied with SRI-based rice production in District Kutoarjo and Wunut Ngombol Districts]
March 1, 2016, Kedaulatan Rakyat (Jawa Tengah, Indonesia)
Blog Posts and Website Articles - accessed during March 2016
- 2016. Odisha: 3rd Shambhavi Puraskar awarded to Ms Sabarmatee. Orissa Diary. March 31. [Sabarmatee, who won this award has been an important part of the SRI movement in India.]
- Thansritong, Boonsong. 2016. ECHO Asia SRI Workshop เอคโค่ เอเซียจะจัดอบรม SRI. ECHO Community website. March. [Announcement for an upcoming training sponsored by ECHO Asia, to be held on June 8-9, 2016 in Chiang Rai, Thailand.]
- Shafer, D. Michael. 2016. Tackling climate change through agriculture. Development Channel blog. Council on Foreign Relations website. March 24. [Biochar and SRI suggested to tackle climate change.]
- DeVore, Brian. 2016. Pacing ourselves in the world hunger race. Land Stewardship Project website. March 22.
- 2016. Nestlé India supports greater access to water and sustainable water use IFIL website. March 22. [Nestlé India has launched a water stewardship initiative with AgSRI at the Kabini river Basin in Karnataka, implementing pilot projects promoting both SRI and SSI.]
- Hasbullah, Habib. 2016. Cara menanam padi organik gengan metode SRI (System of Rice Intensification). Mitalom.com website. March 19. [Indonesian langauge basic instructional material for SRI.]
- Manpati, Tipakson. 2016. Organic rice in Northeastern Thailand: Improving farmers’ livelihoods and the environment. Mekong Commons website. March 18. [Long story about organic rice production in Thailand; has section on an SRI farmer experience (Nattanan Katisart).]
- Ondongo, Dannish. 2016. Kisumu County banks on rice irrigation to solve food insecurity. CapitalFM, Business&Tech section. March 18. [Feature on irrigation schemes in Kisumu Country, Kenya; SRI is noted in the Mwea irrigation scheme.]
- 2016. Impact investing - an entrepreneurial approach to philanthropy with Suzanne Biegel. CityPhilantrophy, features section. March 15. [Biegel answers question on what direction innovation is heading by saying ..we have only just begun to tap into environmentally regenerative solutions..There needs to be a serious uptake of solutions like the agro-ecological methodology like SRI.]
- Chang, Vera Liang. 2016. How carbon farming could reverse climate change. Civil Eats website. March 16. [Interview with Eric Toensmeier about his new book. He mentions SRI among other strategies.]
- Chun, Liang. 2016. YAP Proposal #413: Lessons from my grandfather (Liang Chun, Malaysia). GFAR blog [Porposal subitted to the Global Forum on Agricultural Resarch Youth Agripreneurs Project.]
- Hufstader, Chris. 2016. A farmer declares victory. First Person Blog. March 10. [Oxfam interview with a Cambodian rice farmer on International Women's Day.]
- Pulaski, Tessa. 2016. Food security and displacement in a warming world. Refugees International website. March 8. [Article on refugees and climate change suggest SRI as one of the ways forward.]
- Press Trust of India. 2016. Dhenkanal in Odisha is a proof that agriculture can co-exist harmoniously with industrialisation, Your Story website. March 7. GMR Kamalanga Energy Limited (GKEL) works with farmers to adopt SRI and other agricultural innvoations in Odisah, India.]
- Srinivasa, Kavitha. 2016. Empowering a million lives. Issues and Concerns blog. March 7. [The second item in the March 7 issue, this post is about the Swades Foundation and their work in India, which includes1,400 farmers successfully adopting SRI, which will extend to 4,500 farmers by March 2016.]
- 2016. SRI: A better way to grow rice? Progress TH website. March 4. [Thought of a Thai group who are going to try out SRI]
- ALiSEA. 2016. System of Rice Intesification (SRI). Agro-Eocology Learning Alliance in South East Asia (ALiSEA) website. [Stories of four SRI farmers and one SRS farmer in Cambodia and Laos] [accessed March 3, 2016]
Latest Research / Journal Articles / Theses - links acquired during March 2016
(in order of acquisition. See also complete alphabetized list of journal articles.)
[Note: • Red dot indicates the publication is freely available.]
- • Kega, V. M., J. H. Nderitu, F. Olubayo, et al. 2015. Influence of cropping and irrigation systems on population fluctuation of the African White Rice Stem Borer (Maliarpha separatella rag) and damage on rice. Journal of Entomology 12(2): 95–102. doi:10.3923/je.2015.95.102 [accessed March 2016]
- Wahlang, B., Anup Das, J. Layek, et al. 2015. Effect of establishment methods and nutrient management on physiological attributes and water-use efficiency of rice (Oryza sativa) in a sub-tropical climate. Indian Journal of Agronomy 60(4): 534–40.2 [accessed March 2016]
- • Mwatete, G. K. K., A. K. Kipkoech, E. C. Kipkorir, et al. 2015. Technical efficiency differentials between rice production methods: the case of conventional and System of Rice Intensification in west Kano irrigation scheme, Kenya. Journal of Agricultural and Crop Research 3(8): 130–140.2 [accessed March 2016]
- Ches, S., and Y. Eiji. 2016. The System of Rice Intensification (SRI): assessment on SRI farmers’ contribution to the rice markets. International Journal of Environmental and Rural Development 6(1): 69–74.2 [accessed March 2016]
- • Chakraborty, K., M. N. Moitra, A K. Sanyal, et al. 2016. Important natural enemies of paddy insect pests in the upper Gangetic plains of West Bengal, India. International Journal of Plant, Animal and Environmental Sciences 6(1): 35–40.2 [accessed March 2016]
- • Venkatachalam, S., K. Ranjan, R. Prasanna, et al. 2016. Diversity and functional traits of culturable microbiome members, including cyanobacteria in the rice phyllosphere. Plant Biology: 1-11. doi:10.1111/plb.12441.2 [accessed March 2016]
- • Zaidi, Mohamad Faizal Ahmad, Siti Norezam Othman, and Noor Hidayah Abu. 2016. Technology readiness for the System of Rice Intensification (SRI). International Journal of Academic Research in Business and Social Sciences 6(1): 143–53. 2 [accessed March 2016]
- • Kumar, N. Senthil. 2015. Enhancing rice productivity by adopting different cultivation methods. International Journal of Pure & Applied Bioscience 3(6): 76–80. doi:10.18782/2320-7051.1992 [accessed March 2016]
- • Durga, A. R., and D. Suresh Kumar. 2016. More crop per drop of water: adoption and dis-adoption dynamics of System of Rice Intensification. IIM Kozhikode Society & Management Review 5(1): 74–82. doi:10.1177/2277975215617862 [accessed March 2016]
- • Rosli, Muhammad Firdaus Mohd, Muhammad Razif Mahadi, Muhammad Afiq Misri, et al. 2016. Initial design of an automated system for paddy seedling placement in a germination tray. Jurnal Teknologi 78(1–2):119-123. doi:10.11113/jt.v78.7283.2 [accessed March 2016]
- • Ardiansyah, Ardiansyah, Chusnul Arif, and Krissandi Wijaya. 2016. Nitrogen uptake of SRI paddy field compared to conventional field. Jurnal Teknologi 78(1–2):45-49. doi:10.11113/jt.v78.7259.2 [accessed March 2016]
- Kumar, Rakesh, Manoj Kumar, and Bidyut C. Deka. 2015. Production potential, profitability and energetics of transplanted rice as influenced by establishment methods and nutrient management practices in eastern Himalaya. Research on Crops 16(4):625-633. doi:10.5958/2348-7542.2015.00088.1 [accessed March 2016]
- • Abdulkadir, Tukur Daiyabu, Wan Ishak Wan Ismail, et al. 2016. Suitability of capsule as a paddy coating material for the System of Rice Intensification (SRI). Jurnal Teknologi 78(1–2):105-110. doi:10.11113/jt.v78.7277 [accessed March 2016]
New Links to Online Publications - March 2016
(For Research articles, see section above)
- PASSIP. 2016. Module 15: Système de Riziculture Intensive (SRI). Curriculum d'apprentis sage prduction et post production du riz. PASSIP website. (22p., 5.3MB pdf) [SRI training material from the Programme d/Appui au Sous-Secteur de l'Irrigation de Proximite (PASSIP), a goverment irrigation program in Mali carried out in conjunction with GIZ and other donor agencies. [accessed March 2016]
- 2016. Successful crop trials in the DRC. Woods Hole Research Center Monthly Newsletter - March 2016. WHRC website. [Woods Hole Research Center's Projet Equateur in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) has recently embarked on an effort to engage a village community in a sustainable rice growing]
- Fisher, Lucy. 2016. February SRI-Rice Global Updates. ScoopIt website. March 17.
Recent Documents Uploaded / New Pages on our Website - March 2016
- GRAPHE. 2015. Programme d'Investissement Agricole et de Securite Alimentaire (PNIASA). SRI-Rice website. (9p., 1.13MB pdf) [SRI trainings involving 1,502 farmers undertaken for the SRI-WAAPP Project June 21-26, 2015.] [uploaded March 2016]
- Fisher, Lucy. 2015. February 2016 additions to the SRI-Rice website. New page on the SRI-Rice website.
Videos/Audio - Additions to SRI-Rice Playlists - March 2016
- Video: 2016 (March 16). Cultivar Mas Con Menos. 4:10 min. Produced by Instituto Interamericano de Cooperación para la Agricultura. IICA channel, Vimeo. [An interview with a producer named Fabio Diasa, a producer in the Dominacan Republic who is convinced by SRI]
- Video/Audio: 2016. Rice as a Vegetable: An Organic Perspective of System of Rice Intensification. Presented by Brian Ward at the (American Society for Horticultural Science (ASHS) Conference, New Orleans, LA, August 4-7, 2015. [This presentation is about 2014 SRI trials at Clemson University CREC, Charleston, SC, with 8 varieties using black plastic as mulch and drip tape.] [accessed March 2016]
- Video: 2016 (March). System Of Rice Intensification Indonesian Farmers. 3:36 min. yudi nurwanto channel, YouTube. [Visual presentation of SRI in the field in an Indonesian with musical accompianment only.]
- Video: 2016 (March 16). 24 SRI in Paddy 3 50 . 3:50 min.seenivasan r cahnnel. YouTube. [Telugu language (?) video by Tamil Nadu Agricultural University with SRI overview with interviews.]
- Video: 2016 (March 6). Lagu Padi SRI warga Sriharjo Imogiri di BBLM Yogyakarta. 2:21 min. Psm Jogja channel, YouTube. [Somg about SRI. [Indonesian language song from the SRI training at the BBLM in Jogjakarta, Indonesia.]
- Video: 2016 (March 6). Tanam Padi Pola SRI di Sumba, NTT. 4:07 min. NTT Shoot channel, YouTube.
- 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.]
Presentations - PowerPoint - March 2016
- Sinandja, Paul, Alexis K. Anani, Jean K.A. Apedoh. 2014. Promotion of System of Rice Intensification (SRI) in Togo - September 2012 – July 2014. Peace Corps Togo. 17 slides. West Africa website. [Presentation on Peace Corps Togo volunteers done in conjunction with USAID's West Africa Food Security Program during 2012-2014.] [accessed March 2016]
- Ward, Brian. 2016. Rice as a Vegetable: An Organic Perspective of System of Rice Intensification. Presented at the (American Society for Horticultural Science (ASHS) Conference, New Orleans, LA, August 4-7, 2015. [Information on 2014 SRI plots at Clemson University in S. Carolina with 8 varieties using black plastic as mulch and drip tape.] [accessed March 2016]
- Uphoff, Norman. 2016. Improving Food Production for Health in a Water-Constrained World: Opportunities from Agroecological Knowledge and Experience (SRI). SRI-Rice channel, Slideshare.net. 30 slides. Presentation at the Water for Health Lecture Series, Nebraska Water Center, February 24, 2016. [uploaded March 5, 2016]
- Sen, Debashish, Ravindra Adusumilli, and Sabarmatee. 2016. 1604 - What Does SRI Bring? Improved Yields or Increased Agronomic Bandwidth? SRI-Rice channel, Slideshare.net. 12 slides. Presented by Debashish Sen at the Conference on Contested Agronomy, Institute of Development Studies, Brighton, UK, February 23-25. [uploaded March 2106]
