September 2017- Additions to the SRI-Rice Website
(Links to online material)
• SRI-RICE STATISTICS FOR SEPTEMBER 2017:
SRI-Rice website: 2,996 unique visitors (3,584 last month) from 79 countries (86 last month) logged 3,869 sessions (4,655 last month) in which 6,491 pages (8,462 last month) were viewed. [Top ten user countries in order of sessions: India, USA, Philippines, Australia, Indonesia, Tanzania, Malaysia, UK, Taiwan, and Kenya.]
Facebook pages: 1) SRI-Rice: All-time likes 2,391 (18 new). 2) SRI Equipment Innovators Exchange: 341 members 3) SRI West Africa: 2,168 members, SICA America Latina: 1,060 total likes (10 new)
YouTube (primary): 2,417 (2,911 last month) new views this month for our 88 uploads. 317 views (221 last month) for our 41 playlists (not including our India YouTube channel). 460 subscribers (20 new). 119,811 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: 1,656 followers (4 new this month)
Slideshare: 6,997 (7,734 last month) views new this month; 469 slideshows/posters total uploaded, 217 followers (2 new)
Research Databases: There are 1,173 items in our new Zotero research database (11 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 September 2017: 2017 news, August 2017 news, events, home page, journal articles, staff news, Spanish docs, India research, India news, Burundi, Colombia, Ecuador, Indonesia, Madagascar, Mali
News from past months
In the Press - September 2017
- SRI method gains popularity in Krishna [31,000 ha. under SRI cultivation in the kharif season.]
September 23, 2017, The Hindu, (Andhra Pradesh, India)
- Team KVK Ambikapur visit ‘Project Annapurna’ at Parsa [KVK visits ‘Project Annapurna’ at Parsa village to make SRI value chain links]
September 21, 2017, The Hitavada (Chhattisgarh, India) - FTP UGM dan kelompok tani kembangkan beras hitam organik [Farmers Group near Jogjakarta has success growing black rice, which consumers are now paying a premium for due to reported health benefits, with SRI methods.]
September 14, 2017, Tribun Jogja (Jawa Tengah)
- Adaptación climática agraria
May 18, 2017, El Universo (Ecuador) [accessed September 13, 2017]
- World Food day concept from IFAD: Eradicating rural poverty in Rwanda [SRI is one of the innovations piloted by IFAD in Rwanda]
September 10, 2017, The New Times (Rwanda) - Wow, hasil panen padi SRI di pesanggaran Banyuwangi meningkat pesat [SRI raised the usual 4.5-5 ton/ha yield to 7.5 ton in Sumbermulyo village.]
September 8, 2017, Times Indonesia (Jawa Timur, Indonesia) - Farmers claim superior mustard yields with new cultivation method [SMI allows resource-poor farmers to use less water and seeds and yet achieve significantly higher yields... so the government needs to promote it instead GM mustard]
September 7, 2017, Live Mint (India) - Tanzania goes for Climate Smart Agriculture [Ministry of Agriculture, Livestock and Fisheries Development said that urgent action was needed to build resilience to climate impacts.. need to make farmers aware of the need to adopt water harvesting means, water storage investments and adoption of SRI by smallholder farmers .]
September 2017, AllAfrica (Tanzania) [similar article in East African Business News] - Global warming puts Asia’s vital yields at high risk [Cites efforts in Vietnam to use SRI for emissions reduction]
September 3, 2017, Inter Press Service (article notes Vietnam) (a Dutch translation is available on the AGF website.) - Plant identification launched Phayeng experiments with integrated farming [21 farmers in Chakpa Phayeng village planting RCM9 and practices variety with SRI in attempts to find varieties and practices that are adapted to climate change.]
September 2, 2017, Sangai Express (Manipur, India) . - Liberia: Japanese Gov. reaffirms commitment to boost rice production in Liberia [IFAD comments at CHAPS' Japanese Rice Grant Project workshop that focuses on SRI]
September 1, 2017, AllAfrica (Liberia) (story also in Front Page Africa)
Blog Posts and Website Articles - accessed during September 2017
- 2017. Team KVK Ambikapur visit ‘Project Annapurna’ at Parsa. Hitavada website. September 21.
- 2017. Artikel: Budidaya padi SRI. BUMR website. September 15. [Indonesian language article with FAQs and planting methods.]
- Grover, Sam. 2017. How to fight climate change with what you eat. Mother Nature Network website. September 20.
- 2017. Tata Power organises Swavalamban Drive to train farmers towards self-sustainability in villages of Maharashtra. India Education Diary website. September 18. [330 farmers adopted the SRI practices on 303 acres in villages of Maval, Maharashtra in project funded by Tata Power.]
- Nowicki, Saskia. 2017. ‘Water chose me’: A career conversation with Professor Bancy Mati. Words on Water website. August 3. [Article on Bancy's work in Kenya with SRI and other water-related issues] [accessed September 19]
- Marwati. 2017. UGM and farmer group develop black rice. Universitas Gadjah Mada website. September 13.
- Beitzel, Joe. 2017. Rice biodiversity. Custom Culinary website. September 12. [Cites Lotus Foods and their commitment to SRI]
- Khaled Fathi Salem, Khaled (د. خالد فتحي سالم) 2017. طريقة ”سري” لزراعة الأرز المكثف .. حقيقة أم خيال 9 (A "secret" way to grow rice intensively. Fact or fiction?). elaard.com website. September 9. [Article (in Arabic) from Egypt ponders the merits of SRI and SCI.]
- 2017. Possible options for enhancing agricultural production. Kisan Suvidha website. September 6. [Use SRI in Kharif season where yields are likely to decline.]
- Magasool. 2017. Save dryland farmers - make agriculture possible in drought. Milaap website. [Crowdfunding ad for the NGO Magasool in Tamil Nadu, which promotes modified SRI using mechanization.]
Latest Research / Journal Articles / Theses - links acquired during September 2017
(in order of acquisition. See also complete alphabetized list of journal articles.)
[Note: • Red dot indicates the publication is freely available.]
- • Bhatta, L.R., et al. 2017. Effect of crop establishment methods and varieties on tillering habit, growth rate and yield of finger-millet. Agricultural Research & Technology 11(5): 1-3. doi:10.19080/artoaj.2017.11.555826 [accessed September 2017]
- Praneeth, S., D. V. V. Reddy, R. M. Kumar, and P. C. Latha. 2017. Morphological characters of rice influenced by different planting methods and nitrogen treatments. Green Farming 8(5): 1048-1051 [accessed September 2017]
- • Thakur, Amod K., et al. 2014. The science behind the System of Rice Intensification (SRI). ICAR-IIWM Research Bulletin 69: 1-55. [accessed September 26, 2017]
- • Rijaharilala, Razafimanantsoa. 2009. Analyse de l'échec et de la diffusion du Système de Riziculture Intensive à Madagascar. MSc thesis. Universite d' Antananarivo. (Antananarivo, Madagascar) [accessed September 25, 2017]
- • Rao, K. V. R., et al. 2017. Effects of drip irrigation system for enhancing rice (Oryza sativa L.) yield under System of Rice Intensification management. Applied Ecology and Environmental Research 15(4): 486-495. [accessed September 20, 1217]
- • Mondal, D., et al. 2017. Prospects of Alternate Wetting and Drying (AWD) methodology of irrigation through System Intensification on productivity of summer transplanted rice (Oryza sativa L.). International Journal of Pure and Applied Bioscience 5(4): 629-634. doi:10.18782/2320-7051.5434 [accessed September 20, 2017]
- Kumari, Tulika, and O. P. Singh. 2017. A comparative economics of System of Rice Intensification and conventional method of paddy cultivation in Gumla District of Jharkhand. Indian Journal of Economics and Development 13(3): 581-585. doi:10.5958/2322-0430.2017.00220.7 [accessed September 20, 2017]
New Pages Uploaded on our Website - September 2017
Videos/Audio - September 2017
- Video: 2017 (September 20). Can What You Eat Help Fight Climate Change? Wochit News channel, YouTube. [SRI noted as one way to fight climate change]
- Video: 2017 (September 17). Power weeder using in SRI paddy Thotapalli cluster jattu trust. 1:45 min. king gopi channel, YouTube.
- Video: 2017 (September 12). SRI method of rice cultivation. 2:39 min. anup gupta channel, YouTube. [Hindi language SRI overview]
- Video: 2017 (September 7). SRI method of rice cultivation in Odia. 12:27min. Malpaku Productions channel, YouTube. [repost of an earlier Digital Green video explaining SRI in Odisha]
- Video: 2017 (September 4). SRI paddy success story. 0:58 min. Tanvee Films Patna channel, YouTube. [from Patna, India]
