October 2017- Additions to the SRI-Rice Website
(Links to online material)
• SRI-RICE STATISTICS FOR OCTOBER 2017:
SRI-Rice website: 3,117 unique visitors (2,996 last month) from 87 countries (79 last month) logged 4,005 sessions (3,869 last month) in which 7,533 pages (6,491 last month) were viewed. [Top ten user countries in order of sessions: India, USA, Philippines, Indonesia, Tanzania, UK, Malaysia, UK, Canada, Pakistan, and Nigeria]
Facebook pages: 1) SRI-Rice: All-time likes 2,400 (9 new). 2) SRI Equipment Innovators Exchange: 341 members 3) SRI West Africa: 2,163 members, SICA America Latina: 1,063 total likes (3 new)
YouTube (primary): 2,544 (2,417 last month) new views this month for our 88 uploads. 348 views (317 last month) for our 41 playlists (not including our India YouTube channel). 474 subscribers (14 new). 115,409 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: 1,659 followers (3 new this month)
Slideshare: 7,616 (6,997 last month) views new this month; 471 slideshows/posters total uploaded, 220 followers (3 new)
Research Databases: There are 1,198 items in our new Zotero research database (25 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 October 2017: 2017 news, August 2017 news, events, home page, SRI-Rice Center news, India research, India news, extension materials, journal articles, Burkina Faso, Cambodia, India, Indonesia, Iraq, Myanmar (link correction), Nepal, Taiwan
News from past months
In the Press - October 2017
- Teknologi prediksi musim bantu petani cegah gagal panen [ICCTF sets up climate change prediction technology along with SRI project in NTT]
October 30, 2017, Cendana News (NTT, Indonesia) - Une agro-économiste salue la dimension régionale de la mise en œuvre du WAAPP
October 29, 2017, APS (Senegal) - Metode SRI tingkatkan produksi padi sampai 100% [Indonesia Climate Change Trust Fund (ICCTF), UGM and UKAW adopt SRI as a climate change strategy]
October 23, 2017, LINTAS NTT (Nusa Tenggara Timur, Indonesia) - ICCTF dan UGM kembangkan bibit padi SRI di Kupang
October 23, 2017, Tempo.co (Re: NTT, Indonesia) [Photos of the ICCTF equipment at Sindo News] - Harvest day [East Nusa Tenggara Governor Frans Lebu Raya and Indonesia Climate Change Trust Fund (ICCTF) executive director Tonny Wagey harvest paddy grown using SRI in Kupang.]
October 23, 2017, The Jakarta Post (Jakarta, Indonesia, re:Kupang, NTT) - Gubernur NTT: Budi daya padi SRI layak direplikasi,and another article: Budi daya sistem SRI tingkatkan produksi padi di Kupang
October 21, 2017, Republika.co.id (re: NTT, Indonesia) -
System of Rice Intensification (SRI) in Nepal [World Neighbors work in Mahadevsthan Village, Kavre show average SRI yields 30% higher (as high as 62%); will now introduce to Udaypur].
October 18, 2017, Kathmandu Tribune (Nepal) - Sécurité alimentaire: les enfants aussi [Project in Odisha, India, implemented by CARD, a Swiss NGO, promotes SRI.]
October 16, 2017, Le Courrier (Switzerland, re: Odisha, India) - Zanzibar Ministry of Agriculture to reduce rice importation [SRI noted the secret behind increased rice production in the archipelago made up of Unguja and Pemba islands with 1.4 million people]
October 14, 2017, Coastweek (Tanzania) - Cultiver las force des plus faibles [Project in Odisha, India, implemented by CARD, a Swiss NGO, promotes SRI.]
October 12, 2017, Le Courrier (Switzerland, re: Odisha, India) - Indramayu akan hasilkan padi rendah gul [Article suggests that adding mycorrhizal Rhizophora will raise yield and produce rice with lower sugar content
October 10, 2017, News/republika.co.id, (West Java, Indonesia) - Sowing seeds [Langit Collective help Lun Bawang community in Sarawak to sell their traditional rices, which have now been introduced to SRI methods.]
October 4, 2017, The Sun Daily (Sarawak, Malaysia)
Blog Posts and Website Articles - accessed during October 2017
- Bhagwat, Shreeya. 2017. An inspiring tale of how one woman in rural India created entrepreneurs out of homemakers. Yourstory website. October 31. [Story a woman who gained respect through SRI]
- Urhahn, Jan, and Christine Pohl.2017. Alternatives: Agroecology and community supported agriculture. Heinrich Boell Stiftung. October 31.
- 2017. Perbedaan SRI, HAZTON, Salibu dan cara petani (Konvensional). Sampulpertanian website. January 15. [This is an article explaining the difference between SRI, ratooning, "Hazton method, and traditional rice production in Indonesia] [accessed October 30, 2017]
- Pragati Koraput. 2017. Reducing GHG emission through system of crop intensification in South Odisha. Climate CoLab website. Proposal for Land Use: Agriculture, Forestry, Waste Management in the Climate Co-Lab Competition. October 27.
- 2017. Bisakah SRI menggantikan cara bertani orang Indonesia? Desa Modern.com. October 25.
- 2017 Spotlight on Lotus Foods. Middlebury Co-op website. October 19.
- Astrida, Elisabeth. 2017. Pangan untuk Rakyat: Akankah Padi Menggantikan Ubi di Wamena? Mongabay Indonesia website. October. 20 [SRI included in paddy project in Papua mountain region]
- Gujja, Biksham. 2017. Producing More with Less: Promoting System of Rice Intensification, SRI and Up scaling Sustainable Sugarcane Initiative SSI. Changemakers website.[AgSri's Pitch for the Creating Shared Value Prize, which starts Nov. 1]
- Matamoro, Renaldo C. 2017. It’s organic but don’t panic! Committee on World Food Security (CFS), FAO website. October 18. [SRI acknowledged; Eosta's info card system described]
- 2017. A new method of rice farming. Pakissan.com website. October 15 [SRI in Kerala, India]
- PANAP. 2017. 16 Days of Global Action: Advance Food Sovereignty and Agroecology! Promote youth’s participation in agriculture! PAN Asia Pacific website. September 29. [SRI is example of agroecology that is noted.] [accessed October 15]
- Strough, Scott. 2017. Can we reverse global warming? Red Planet website. October 9. [SRI listed at #1 of 12 examples in the "Where the farmer and the scientist meet" section.]
- Chhandosree. 2017. Women in Jharkhand village use education to achieve development goals. YourStory website. October 11. [Women in a night school in Jharkhand adopt srividhi (SRI) and other activities.]
- 2017? Madagascar: Vanilla village development. Fondation Givaudan website. [700 cultivators were trained in SRI as part of this project]
- 2017. SRI4women.org website [Check out the newly revised SRI4women website!] [accessed October 10, 2017]
- Angeli, Massimo. 2017. Acquisition of tools/equipments and its distribution to the SRI community. Engim Internazionale website. October 5. [Tools made available to Engim Internzionale's SRI project in Sierra Leone.]
- Perlman, Jeff. 2017. The secret (and not-so-secret) life of rice. Layoga website. October 5. [Overview of rice production that describes SRI]
- 2017. Philippines: Reaping what she sowed. Comboni Missionaries Ireland website. October 4. [Article about Cherrie Atilano's SRI work with AGREA in Marinduque, Philippines]
Latest Research / Journal Articles / Theses - links acquired during October 2017
(in order of acquisition. See also complete alphabetized list of journal articles.)
[Note: • Red dot indicates the publication is freely available.]
- • Kumar, G. Santhosh. 2016. Performance of different methods of crop establishment in relation to nutrient management in rice-rice system. PhD dissertation, Professor Jayashankar Telangana State Agricultural University (225 p.) [accessed October 27 2017]
- • Arif, Chusnul, et al. 2016. Potensi pemanasan global dari padi sawah System of Rice Intensification (SRI) dengan berbagai ketinggian muka air tanah (Global warming potential from System of Rice Intensification paddy fields with various water Levels). Jurnal Irigasi 11(2): 81-90. [accessed October 24, 2017]
- • Lee, Yun Ho, and Kazuhiko Kobayashi. 2017. Rice yield increase by the System of Rice Intensification is dependent on supplementary water availability in rainfed lowland fields of southern Cambodia. Tropical Agriculture and Development 61(1): 48-55 [accessed October 24, 2017]
- • Kumar, G. et al. 2017. Comparative evaluation of seed and grain quality parameters of rice (Oryza sativa L.) varieties under SRI and conventional methods of rice cultivation. International Journal of Current Microbiology and Applied Sciences 6(8): 3653-3660. [accessed October 24, 2017]
- • Vicente, Ergilio Ferreira, and Josefina T. Dizon. 2015. Community development methods toward food security: The System of Rice Intensification in Zumalai Subdistrict, Covalima, Timor-Leste. Journal of Public Affairs and Development 2(2): 37-73. [accessed October 24, 2017]
- • Sudhakara, T. M., et al. 2017. Energy saving and profitability of rice (Oryza sativa) under mechanized and conventional system of rice intensification. Indian Journal of Agronomy 62(2): 57-62. [accessed October 24, 2017]
- • Venkatachalapathi, V., et al. 2016. Enhancing rice productivity through System of Rice Intensification (SRI). The Ecoscan 10(1&2): 341-344 [accessed October 24, 2017]
- • Istiqomah, Nurul, et al. 2017. Ketersediaan nitrogen dan populasi bakteri tanah di bawah pengaruh pemupukan pada System of Rice Intensification (Nitrogen availability and soil bacteria population under fertilization treatments in the System of Rice Intensification). Jurnal tanah dan Iklim 41(2): 1-10. doi:10.2017/jti.v41i2.6478
- Mentari, Rina Kusdia. 2017. Pemodelan variasi kedalaman muka air dalam kominasi metode AWD (Alternate Wetting and Drying) dan metode SRI (System of Rice Intensification). Bachelor's thesis, Universitas Mataram (Indonesia) [accessed October 24, 2017]
- • Marrocco, Also Tommaso. 2017. Online informative and educational resources regarding the possibilities for sustainable intensification of agriculture. Journal of Taiwan Disaster Prevention 9(2): 181-195 [accessed October 24, 2017]
- Simangunsong, Tuani Lidiawati. 2016. Pemanfaatan limbah peternakan melalui aplikasi pertanian-peternakan terintegrasi (Studi sasu Desa Kebontungguk, Mojokerti). In: Prosiding Konferensi Nasional PKM dan CSR Ke 2. Teknologi tepat guna dan lingkungan . LPPM Universitas Swiss German, Tangerang-Banten, pp. 104-110.
- • Mondal, Dibyendu, et al. 2017. Yield loss assessment of rice (Oryza Sativa L.) due to different biotic stresses under system of rice intensification (SRI). Journal of Entomology and Zoology Studies 5(4): 1974-1980. [accessed October 24, 2017]
- • Sreymom, Sam, and Ouch Chhuong. 2015. Agricultural technological practices and gaps for climate change adaptation. CDRI Working Paper Series No. 100. Phnom Penh: CDRI [accessed October 24, 2017]
- • Ali, Md Naiyar, and Tajwar Izhar 2017. Performance of SRI principles on growth, yield and profitability of rice (Oryza sativa L.). Journal of Pharmacognosy and Phytochemistry 6(5): 1355-1358. [accessed October 20, 2017]
- Sreerag, P. M. 2016. Development of seedling uprooting unit for system of rice intensification. M. Tech Thesis, College of Agricultural Engineering and Technology, Kelappaji. [accessed October 20, 2017]
- Jagannath, Madane Ananda, et al. 2017. Effect of irrigation and nitrogen management on rice (Oryza sativa) under system of rice intensification and its residual effect on lentil (Lens culinaris). Indian Journal of Agronomy 62(3): 260-267 [accessed October 20, 2017]
- Mohapatra, S., et al. 2017. Effect of irrigation and methods of weed management on weed dynamics and yield of summer rice (Oryza sativa) under system of rice intensification. Indian Journal of Agronomy 62(3): 315-320 [accessed October 20, 2017]
- Shahane, A. A., et al. 2017. Contribution of microbial inoculation and zinc-fertilization to growth and yield of rice (Oryza sativa) under different cultivation methods in a sub-tropical and semi-arid type climate. Indian Journal of Agronomy 62(3): 301-306 [accessed October 20, 2017]
- Dwibedi, Sana Kumar, Gopal Chandra De, and Sudhi Ranjan Dhua. 2017. Relative performance of rice (Oryza sativa)-ratoon production system as influenced by date of sowing and system of cultivation of plant rice genotypes. 62(3): 247-254 [accessed October 20, 2017]
- Kundu, Surajit, et al. 20177. Growth and yield of rice as influenced by different planting techniques. Journal of Hill Agriculture 8(3): 309-312 doi:10.5958/2230-7338.2017.00061.1 [accessed October 20, 2017]
- • Al-Hasanie, L. N. H., and A. D. Al-Maadhedi. 2017. Influence of irrigation periods and organic fertilizer on two rice varieties grown under System of Rice Intensification (SRI). The Iraqi Journal of Agricultural Sciences 48(3): 823-840 [accessed October 20, 2017]
- • Siregar, Ameilia Zuliyanti, Tulus and Kemala Sari Lubis. 2017. Diversity of pest insects in paddy field cultivation: A case study in Lae Parira, Dairi. International Journal of Trend in Research and Development 4(5): 58-62. [accessed October 13, 2017]
New Links to Publications - October 2017
- Purwasasmita, Mubiar, and Alik Sutaryat. 2017. Buku padi SRI organik Indonesia. Berkahnandur website. [Indonesian language manual on organic SRI production. Cost: Rp. 75,000]
- Bhatt, K. N., and Pradeep Bhargava. 2017. System of Rice Intensification. Studium Press: New Delhi. [The book is not yet available online. Please contact K. N. Bhatt or Studium Press to obtain a copy] [accessed October 17, 2017]
- Ouedraogo, Ibrahima, et al. 2016. Système de Riziculture Intensive (SRI). PAPSA website. [French language manual from the Institut de L'environnement et de la Recherche Agricole (IN.E.R.A.) in Burkina Faso] [accessed October 18, 2017]
- Arif, Chusnul, Budi Indra Setiawan, and Sutardi. 2017. Pedoman awal aplikasi SRI di Lapangan. IPB Press: Bogor. 80p. [Indonesian SRI field manual. Contact chusnulipb@gmail.com to acquire a copy]
New Pages Uploaded on our Website - October 2017
- Fisher, Lucy. 2017. September additions to the SRI-Rice website. New page on the SRI-Rice website.
Videos/Audio - October 2017
- Video: 2017 (October 27). Dengan metode SRI hasil panen padi meningkat. 2:39 min. Iqbal comel molek channel, YouTube. [Metro Pagi Primetime TV show]
- Video: 2017 (October 21). System of Mustard Intensification SMI in Punjab - Sowing. 0:37 min. ashokknandania channel. YouTube. [accessed October 23, 2017]
- Video: 2017 (October 21). System of Mustard Intensification SMI in Punjab - Marking. 1:57 min. ashokknandania channel. YouTube. [accessed October 23, 2017]
- Video: 2014 (December 1). Increase wheat production through SRI method 6:18 min. Pradesh18 English channel. YouTube. [accessed October 23, 2017]
- Video: 2016 (November 9.) श्री विधि से गेहूं की बुवाई, Sowing of Wheat With SRI Method IN HINDI. 6:59 min. Digital kheti channel, YouTube. [accessed October 23, 2017]
- Video: 2017 (October 2). Achieving sustainable cultivation of rice, Volume 2 - Chapter 7. 2:07 min. Rob Burleigh channel, YouTube. [Introduction to book chapter by N. Uphoff on SRI.]
Presentations (PowerPoints) - October 2017
- Thakur, Amod K., K.G. Mandal, R.K. Mohanty and S.K. Ambast 2017. Impacts of cultivation practices and water management in the post-vegetative stage on rice grain yield and water productivity. 17 slides. Presented by Amod Thakur at the International Annual Meetings of ASA-CSSA-SSSA on ‘Managing Global Resources for a Secure Future’, Tampa, Florida, October 22-25.
- Thakur, Amod K., and Norman Uphoff. 2017. Climate Smart agriculture: How modified crop/water management with SRI can contribute to climate-resilience and higher water productivity. 35 slides. Presentation at the 2017 Annual Meetings of ASA-CSSA-SSSA on ‘Managing Global Resources for a Secure Future, Tampa, Florida, USA, October 23-25.
