December 2017- Additions to the SRI-Rice Website
(Links to online material)
• SRI-RICE STATISTICS FOR DECEMBER 2017:
SRI-Rice website: 2,576 unique visitors (3,157 last month) from 72 countries (93 last month) logged 3,269 sessions (4,082 last month) in which 5,776 pages (7,221 last month) were viewed. [Top ten user countries in order of sessions: India, USA, Philippines, Malaysia, Indonesia, Nepal, Tanzania, Japan, Cambodia, and Myanmar.]
Facebook pages: 1) SRI-Rice: All-time likes 2,411 (8 new). 2) SRI Equipment Innovators Exchange: 340 members 3) SRI West Africa: 2,143 members, SICA America Latina: 1,061 total likes (1 new)
YouTube (primary): 2,284 (3,259 last month) new views this month for our 88 uploads. 286 views (161 last month) for our 41 playlists (not including our India YouTube channel). 505 subscribers (13 new). 121,282 all time views. [NOTE!: The 8 India playlists from the SRI India video channel are now accessible on the main SRI-Rice video channel].
Twitter: 1,675 followers (10 new this month)
Slideshare: 8,562 (9,000 last month) views new this month; 484 slideshows/posters total uploaded, 222 followers (2 new)
Research Databases: There are 1,236 items in our Zotero research database (16 new). (700+ of these appear in the Mendeley SRI Research database, but are not added to regularly). 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 2017: 2017 news, donate page, home page, India news, journals, India Journals, research page, millet, staff news, November 2017 news, Spanish docs, videos, Burkina Faso, Colombia, Indonesia, Madagascar, Rwanda, Senegal, Sierra Leone, Tanzania
News from past months
In the Press - December 2017
- World Bank to provide $318 mn loan for Tamil Nadu irrigation projects [$318 million loan signed for the Tamil Nadu Irrigated Agriculture Modernization Project that includes SRI and SSI]
December 26, 2017, Business Standard (Tamil Nadu, India) - Kaolack - programme d’amélioration de la production du riz Le SRI, une solution pour assurer l’autosuffisance [WAAPP/ANCAR workshop unveils 50-100% yield increases over 10,000 ha in Kaolack, Senegal]
December 22, 2017, Sinesaloum (Senegal) - Burkina Faso: Système de riziculture intensif - Des productrices de Dapélogo éclairées par le Larlé Naaba [Four women's rice production associations trained in SRI methods]
December 21, 2017, AllAfrica (Burkina Faso) [original in Sidewaya website] - Riz au Sud-Ouest: à la découverte du "farmer business school" [GIZ (Germany) program in SW Burkina Faso includes SRI]
December 18, 2017, L'Economiste Dufaso (Burkina Faso) - WB to fund $455m irrigation project [Project will also support smallholder producers to adopt new conservation technologies SRI and SSI which reduce average water usage by 35 per cent and increase yields by 22 per cent per hectare.]
December 16, 2017, The Indian Express (Tamil Nadu, India) - Padi jenis SRI dan gogo cocok dikembangkan di NTT [Universitas Nusa Cendana (Undana) Kupang project finds SRI useful in NTT as it can raise yields by 100% and adapt to climate change conditions]
December 12, 2017, NetralNews (NTT, Indonesia) -
Petani Tarabbi minta jalan beton kepada bupati Luwu Timur [Community and govt. celebrate organic SRI success at harvest festival in South Sulawesi.]
December 11, 2017, Tribun Timur (Sulawesi Selatan, Indonesia) - Panen padi organik di Lutim capai 5 ton per hektar [Harvest festival by govt. official for organic SRI project celebrates 5 ton yield.]
December 11, 2017, Rakyatku News (Sulawesi Selatan, Indonesia) - Agri plan to win pest attack fight [Agri plan to combat pest attack on paddy in Odisha, India, promotes SRI, neem-based fertilisers and Trichoderma]
December 6, 2017, New Indian Express (Odisha, India) - Les inquiétantes contrevérités de Abdoul Mbaye, Par Dr Waly DIOUF [Contrary to govt. claims, rice has made progress in Senegal thanks to SRI, mechanization, etc.]
December 7, 2017, Senego (Senegal) - *Tribal farmers reap it rich in ragi cultivation
December 4, 2017, The Hindu (Andhra Pradesh, India)
Blog Posts and Website Articles - accessed during December 2017
- 2017?. Small changes can make a difference. European Commission website. [Lao PDR project by European Commission's International Cooperation and Development describes the SRS system that is derived from SRI.]
- Agustin, Rose Jeanette. 2017. Try this unconventional farming for a better yield. GoodNewsPilipinas.com. December 28. [Article about the NGO AGREA in Marinduque. Philippines.]
- 김진국 기자가 (Kim, Jin-kook). 2017. 북에 신농법 전수 미 NGO, 여행금지 후 첫 방북 (NGOs to transfer new farming methods to North Korea). Radio Free Asia website. December 29. [Korean article and audio clip by Radio Free Asia on the NGO AFSC's continuing efforts to promote SRI in North Korea.]
- Parket, Anna. 2017. Sustainable Agriculture in Madagascar has a worldwide impact. Borgen Project blog. December 30. [See more about the MFG Ecoagriculture Project referenced in this article.]
- 2017. New agreement signed to support climate resilient agriculture – over 500,000 farmers to benefit in Tamil Nadu World Bank website, December 26. [Press release about signing of the $318 million loan for the Tamil Nadu Irrigated Agriculture Modernization Project that includes SRI and SSI.]
- date? Difference between SRI method and Traditional method in paddy production. Course Hero website. [Article on a student site.]
- *Katoch, Manabi. 2017. This farmer grew 100 tonnes of 20-foot tall sugarcane in one acre! Here’s how! The Better India website. December 13. [Maharashtra farmer uses SSI to increase yield. Great photos.]
- Edmond, Ewane. 2017. Comment produire le riz de manière Intensive: Système de Riziculture Intensive (SRI). Espace Pub/Agriculture Au Cameroun website. December 13. [Overview of SRI methods published on Cameroon website.]
- 2017. Strategies for survival. Nature Plants 3: 907. doi:10.1038/s41477-017-0081-x [editorial that includes SRI]
- Ka, Mangoné. 2017. Les inquiétantes contrevérités de Abdoul Mbaye, Par Dr Waly DIOUF*. Senego website. December 7, 2017. [Contrary to govt. claims, rice production has made progress in Senegal thanks to SRI, mechanization, etc.]
- 2017. Bærekraftig landbruk. Partners website. [The Norwegian website for Partners, an NGO with SRI-focused rice production projects in Myanmar.] [accessed December 3, 2017]
Latest Research / Journal Articles / Theses - links acquired during December 2017
(in order of acquisition. See also complete alphabetized list of journal articles.)
[Note: • Red dot indicates the publication is freely available.]
- • Sarkar, M.A.R., S.K. Paul, and U. Pau. 2017. Effect of water and weed management in Boro rice (cv. BRRI dhan28) in Bangladesh. Archives of Agriculture and Environmental Science 2(4): 325-329. doi: 10.26832/24566632.2017.020414 [accessed December 31, 2017]
- • Nakano, Y., Y. Tanaka, and K. Otsuka. 2017. Impact of training on the intensification of rice farming: Evidence from rainfed areas in Tanzania. Agricultural Economics, Accepted Author Manuscript. December 18, 2017. [accessed December 31, 2017]
- • Yadav, Rahul, and Thomas Abraham. 2017. Agronomic performance of rice (Oryza sativa L.) as affected by planting system, date of transplanting, source and dose of nitrogen. International Journal of Current Microbiology and Applied Sciences 6(8): 387-394. [accessed December 31, 2017]
- Bikash, Sarkar, et al. 2017. Comparative performance of manual weeders under system of rice intensification in Indo-Gangetic plains. Indian Journal of Weed Science 49(1): 82-84. doi: 10.5958/0974-8164.2017.00020.X [accessed December 31, 2017]
- • Suhastyo, Arum Asriyanti, and Bondan Hary Setiawan. 2017. Aplikasi pupuk cair mol pada tanaman padi metode SRI (System of Rice Intensification). Agritech : Jurnal Fakultas Pertanian 19(1): 26-34. [accessed December 31, 2017]
- • Hasanah, Nur Aini Iswati, Budi Indra Setiawan, Masaru Mizoguchi, Gary Robert Sands, Chusnul Arif and Slamet Widodo. 2017. Triangle graphs development for estimating methane and nitrous oxide gases emission from the System of Rice Intensification (SRI). Journal of Environmental Science and Technology, 10(4): 206-214. doi:10.3923/jest.2017.206.214 [accessed December 31, 2017]
- • Rk, Rajesh Krisnan. 2017. Corroborating the ecological and economic sustainability of SRI in changing climate. Journal of Agrometeorology 29 (special issue): 303-307.
- • Kumari, Tulike, and O. P. Singh. 2016. Factors favour the adoption of SRI system of paddy cultivation and problems in its adoption in Gumla district of Jharkhand. IOSR Journal Of Humanities And Social Science 21(11): 53-55. [accessed December 31, 2017]
- • Dhakal, Bishal, et al. 2017. Productivity assessment of drought tolerant rice cultivars under different crop management practices in Central Terai of Nepal. International Journal of Environmental & Agriculture Research 3(10): 20-25. [accessed December 31, 2017]
- • Thapa, Shobit, et al. 2017. Influence of fertilizers and rice cultivation methods on the abundance and diversity of phyllosphere microbiome. Journal of Basic Microbiology 1-15 (e-pub ahead of print). [accessed December 31, 2017]
- Sowmyalatha, B. S. 2017. Influence of seedling age on growth and yield of rice (Oryza sativa L.) under mechanized system of rice intensification (MSRI). Journal of Progressive Agriculture 8(20): 40-45. [accessed December 31, 2017]
- Poerwanto, Mofit Eko, and Oktavia Sarhesti Padmini. 2017. Impact of “System of Rice Intensification” on the abundance of rice pests, In: Proceeding of the 1st International Conference on Tropical Agriculture, pp. 153-161. Springer Link. [accessed December 31, 2017]
- Shahane, A. A. et al. 2013. Influence of cyanobacterial inoculants and planting methods on nutrient uptake of rice (Oryza sativa) and soil chemical properties. Indian Journal of Agronomy 58 (4): 123-126 [accessed December 31, 2017]
- Rao, K.V.R., et al. 2018. Energy assessment of rice under conventional and drip Irrigation systems. In: Singh, V., Yadav S., Yadav R. (eds), Water Resources Management. Water Science and Technology Library, vol 78. Springer, Singapore [accessed December 31, 2017]
- Ingabire, C. et al. 2013. Rice Intensification System (SRI): Awareness and adoption in the Eastern Province of Rwanda. Presentation at the Conference on Confronting challenges of food insecurity and poverty in the era of climate change and variability, August 2013, Rwanda. [accessed Dec. 3, 2017]
New Links to Publications - December 2017
- Mendoza, Díddier A. Moreira. 2017. Sistema Intensivo del Cultivo del Arroz (SRI) Produciendo más con menos en un clima cambiante. FONTAGRO website. (44p, 9.6MB pdf) [Guía para el establecimiento y monitoreo del cultivo de arroz bajo la metodología del SRI] [This is the Colombian version of Spanish language manual on using and monitoring SRI] [accessed December 31, 2017]
- 2017. Case Study: System of Millet Intensification (SMI) farmers from Nuapada felicitated by member of Parliament. WASSAN website. December 7. (2p. pdf)
New Pages Created on our Website - December 2017
- (SRI-Rice web pages updated during December: 2017 news, donate page, home page, India news, journals, India Journals, research page, millet, staff news, November 2017 news, Spanish docs, videos, Burkina Faso, Colombia, Indonesia, Madagascar, Rwanda, Senegal, Sierra Leone, Tanzania)
- Fisher, Lucy. 2017. November additions to the SRI-Rice website. (New page on the SRI-Rice website.)
Videos/Audio - December 2017
- Audio: 2017 (December 29). 북에 신농법 전수 미 NGO, 여행금지 후 첫 방북 (NGOs to transfer new farming methods to North Korea). 2:09 minutes. Radio Free Asia website. [Korean article and audio clip by Radio Free Asia on the NGO AFSC's continuing efforts to promote SRI in the DPRK.]
- Video: 2017 (December 16). Ayoo Beralih Ke Padi Organik..Seperti Desa Suka Makmur. 2:48 min. sukma aldino channel, YouTube. [Indonesian language TV clip about organic SRI in Sumatera Selatan, where SRI has been practiced since 2009.]
- 2017 (December 8). 節水栽種 SRI (System of Rice Intensification水稻強化栽培系統)~台大名譽教授甘俊二老師解說. 1:27 min. Kiim S. Blades channel, YouTube.
- Video: 2017 (December 5). Metro Pagi Prime Time - Panen Raya Padi SRI bersama RITX. 1 min. RiTX Indonesia, YouTube. [Indonesian language TV clip about SRI project in NTT province, Indonesia.]
- Video: 2016 (February 11). How to get 100 tones Sugarcane/Acre- Mr. Suresh Kabade. 5:40 min. Navnit Patel channel, YouTube. [Sustainable Sugarcane Initiative (SSI in Maharashtra)] [accessed December 13, 2017]
- Video: 2017 (December 4). Vistazo Agropecuario no. 236. 28:30 (The first 9 minutes is about the 2nd Regional Workshop on SRI in the Americas). Vistazo Agropecuario channel, YouTube.
Presentations (PowerPoints) - December 2017
- Shah, Tavseef Mairaj. 2017. System of Rice Intensification (SRI) with Intercropping. 18 slides. November. CCAFS/CGIAR channel, Slideshare website. [Presentation for the Climate Food and Farming (CLIFF) Network] [accessed December 21, 2017]
- *Kumar, Pradeep. 2017. System of wheat intensification - SWI. 24 slides. Slideshare.net website. December 6.
* = System of Crop Intensification (SCI)
