March 2017- Additions to the SRI-Rice Website
(Links to online material)
• SRI-RICE STATISTICS FOR March 2017:
SRI-Rice website: 3,859 unique visitors (3,686 last month) from 89 countries (94 last month) logged 4,806 sessions (4,902 last month) in which 8,677 pages (9,137 last month) were viewed. [Top ten user countries in order of sessions: India, USA, Philippines, Australia, UK, Indonesia, Malaysia, Nigeria, Tanzania, and Germany.]
Facebook pages: 1) SRI-Rice: All-time likes 2,216 (3 new). 2) SRI Equipment Innovators Exchange: 322 members (5 new) 3) SRI West Africa: 2,245 members, SICA America Latina: 1,016 likes
YouTube (primary): 2,201 (2,313 last month) new views this month for our 88 uploads. 319 views for our 41 playlists (not including our India YouTube channel). 360 subscribers (21 new). [NOTE!: The 8 India playlists from the SRI India video channel are now accessible on the main SRI-Rice video channel].
Twitter: 1,585 followers (25 new this month)
Slideshare: 7,805 (8,553 last month) views new this month; 466 slideshows/posters total uploaded, 205 followers
Research Databases: There are 1,091 items in our new Zotero research database (25 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 March 2017: homepage, 2017 additions, events, February additions, FAQs, journal articles, research index page, SWI page, videos, Cambodia, India research, Japan, Liberia, Mali, Philippines, Vietnam
News from past months
In the Press - March 2017
- 1,800 smallholder farmers targeted for System of Rice Intensification
March 24, 2017, Daily Observer (Liberia) [1,800 smallholder farmers from Cape Mount, Montserrado, Grand Bassa, Bomi and Lofa counties are receiving training in SRI] - Bản in: Tra Vinh province’s rice output hits all-time high [Some 57 training courses in Vietnam on various ag techniques, including SRI, to produce VietGap standard rice were organized, benefiting around 1,700 local farmers.]
March 23, 2017, Talk Vietnam (Vietnam) - The ignored side of the Cauvery debate [SRI is part of the solution to the water crisis]
March 21, 2017, Your Story (Tamil Nadu, India) - Liberia: Chap strengthens technicians' skills [J-Rice Project 3-day training in Foya Lofa County and at CHAP Office Zubah, Liberia]
March 9, 2017, AllAfrica (Liberia) -
Nhandan Newspaper – Vietnam’s agriculture contributes to reducing greenhouse gas emissions: minister [Minister Phat's COP21 speech said that in regards to rice production, the country has encouraged farmers to apply advanced techniques through System of Rice Intensification (SRI)]
March 5, 2017, Talk Vietnam (Vietnam)
Blog Posts and Website Articles - accessed during March 2017
- Solomon, Philippa. 2017. How farmers can help reduce famine. Capital Press. March 23. ["In the long term we also need to support the spread of improved cultivation techniques such as the system of rice intensification (SRI) and to reduce and manage the risks from warming of the global climate."]
- 2017. Efficient rice farming to curb emissions. CUBIRD.com website. March 18. [To achieve 15-20%r eduction in GHGs by 2020, Director or MARD's Institute for Agricultural Environment plans to use SRI.]
- 2017. Replacing chemicals with agroecology increases Cambodian farmers’ income by four-folds. PAN Asia Pacific blog. March 18.
- Sarian, Zac B. 2017. Dennis Miguel: Set to establish record yield in rice. zac b. sarian blog. March 8.
- 2017. Women in agricultural development: the challenging task of coordinating multilateral didn’t really change food habit collaboration. IICA website. March 8. [Includes a section on Kelly Witkowski, an agriculture and climate change specialist with IICA, who coordinates an Inter-American Institute for Cooperation on Agriculture (IICA) project focusing on validating SRI in Colombia and the Dominican Republic.]
- SNV. 2017. Let’s get to work - Building a food secure future. SNV website. March. [Between 2016 and 2020 SNV, a Dutch NGO, is upscaling the uptake of SRI in Vietnam under the ‘Enhancing Opportunities for Women’s Enterprises’ programme. this was highlighted at an Regional Food Security Conference put on by the Govt.s of the Netherlands and Vietnam on March 22-23, in Hanoi, Vietnam]
- 2017. Natural Agriculture Rice Paddy School is looking for participants 自然農田んぼ塾参加者募集 . allevents.in website. [The Natural Agriculture Rice Field School in Tsuchiura, Japan, is looking for participants for their season-long SRI trials with nine varieties. Opening session is April 22, 2017 [accessed March 1, 2017]
- Hufstader, Chris. 2017. Sparking a rice revolution. Oxfam America website. March 7. [Story of a Vietnamese SRI farmer.]
- 2017. Harvest time For SRI project. Kiulu Farmstay website. February 7. [An ecotour farm in Sabah, Malaysia, shares its SRI project.] (accessed March 7, 2017]
- Tyagi, Abhishek. 2017. High yielding variety to boost agriculture production. Uttaranchal (P.G.) College of Bio-Medical Sciences website. March 6. [HYV's good, but also SRI methods!]
Latest Research / Journal Articles / Theses - links acquired during March 2017
(in order of acquisition. See also complete alphabetized list of journal articles.)
[Note: • Red dot indicates the publication is freely available.]
- Balamatti, Arun, and Norman Uphoff. 2017. Experience with the System of Rice Intensification for sustainable rainfed paddy farming systems in India. Agroecology and Sustainable Food Systems (online first March 20, 2017) doi:10.1080/21683565.2017.1308898
- Dass, Anchal, Subhash Chandra, Norman Uphoff, et al. 2017. Agronomic fortification of rice grains with secondary and micronutrients under differing crop management and soil moisture regimes in the north Indian plains. Paddy and Water Environment (First Online, March 11, 2017) pp 1-16. doi:10.1007/s10333-017-0588-9.
- • Paramasivan, M., and A. Selvarani. 2017. Productivity, water use efficiency and economics of system of rice intensification (SRI) in Nichabanadhi sub basin of southern Tamil Nadu. Journal of Applied and Natural Science 9 (1): 286- 290. [accessed March 16, 2017]
- Varma, Poornima. 2017. Adoption of Natural Resource Management Technologies under Information Constraints: The Case of System of Rice Intensification (SRI) in India. Indian Institute of Management Working Paper. March 3.
- Vishwakarma, Akhilesh, J.K. Singh, Rajesh Singh, and A.J. Lat. 2016. Productivity and profitability of rice (Oryza sativa) hybrids as influenced by date of transplanting and age of seedling under system of rice intensification. Indian Journal of Agronomy 61(3): 315-320 [accessed March 6, 2017]
- • Nugroho, Virgus Amin, Cahyo Prayogo. 2016. Dapatkah status unsur hara dan produktivitas tanaman padi metode SRI (System of Rice Intensification) ditingkatkan? Jurnal Tanah dan Sumber Daya Lahan 3(2): 365-374. [accessed February 28, 2017]
New Pages Uploaded on our Website - March 2017
Videos/Audio - March 2017
- Video: 2017 (March 22). FAO, Tanzania Govt train 150 youth farmers in rice farming, life skills. 2:22 min. Emmanuel Kihaule channel, YouTube. [Swahili language ITV program explains that 150 youth have been trained in SRI and the Junior Farmer Field and Life Schools (JFFLS) approach under the Partnership for Sustainable Rice System Development in Africa project, financed by the Government of Venezuela through FAO under South South Cooperation and is implemented by the Government of United Republic of Tanzania through Ministry of Agriculture Livestock and Fisheries.]
- Video: 2017, (March 2). Natural rice farming methods brings more profit. 1:10 min. News7 Tamil channel, YouTube. [Tamil language TV show.]
- Video: 2017 (March 8). Climate Smart Rice Production. 2:39 min. LotusFoodsInc channel, YouTube. [Lotus Foods is supporting the first-ever Climate Day, Wednesday, March 8, at Natural Products Expo West, the largest natural foods trade show in the U.S.]
- Video: 2017 (February 17). NHK World Japan. 28:09 min. Khmer Farmer channel, YouTube.[Video about Yang Saing Koma, CEDAC, and SRI in Cambodia.] [accessed March 7, 2017]
- Video: 2017 (March 5). Adoption of SRI and Bio-Pesticides in Rice. 1:40 min. MyAgriGuru channel, YouTube. [AgriAwards 2013 winner in India.]
- Video: 2016 (November 16). Project Compassion 2017 - Dinia from the Philippines. 5:23 min. caritasaustralia channel, YouTube. [Story about a woman from Daet, Camarines Norte, Philippines, who is part of a Caritas Australia, project that includes SRI.] [accessed March 6, 2017]
- Video: 2017 (March 1). Semoir Phillipin. 3:12 min. Khadidia Ba channel. YouTube. [WAAPP/CNRA video on the production/use of the drum seeder video in Mali. French.]
- Video: 2017 (March 1). Riziculture Intensive. 3:04 min. Khadidia Ba channel. YouTube. [WAAPP/CNRA SRI video from Mali. French.]
