January 2018 - Additions to the SRI-Rice Website
(Links to online material)
• SRI-RICE STATISTICS FOR JANUARY 2018:
SRI-Rice website: 2,404 users (2,576 last month) from 76 countries (72 last month) logged 3,045 sessions (3,269 last month) in which 5,722 pages (5,776 last month) were viewed. [Top ten user countries in order of sessions: India, USA, Philippines, Kenya, Tanzania, Nepal, Malaysia, UK, Indonesia and Germany]
Facebook pages: 1) SRI-Rice: All-time likes 2,416 (5 new). 2) SRI Equipment Innovators Exchange: 342 members 3) SRI West Africa: 2,135 members, SICA America Latina: 1,069 total likes (8 new)
YouTube (primary): 2,284 (2,147 last month) new views this month for our 88 uploads. 188 views (286 last month) for our 41 playlists (not including our India YouTube channel). 523 subscribers (18 new). 123,891 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: 1,681 followers (6 new this month)
Slideshare: 7,794 (8,562 last month) views new this month; 484 slideshows/posters total uploaded, 222 followers
Research Databases: There are 1,257 items in our Zotero research database (21 new). (700+ of these appear in the Mendeley SRI Research database, but we are not adding to this 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 January 2018: 2018, 2017, 2016, about, contacts, homepage, extension materials, journal articles, India journal articles, NTU Trip Reports, Spanish docs, videos, Burkina Faso, Cambodia, Colombia, Egypt, Ghana, Ghana Archives, India, Indonesia, Laos, Madagascar, Malawi, Nepal, Nigeria, Philippines, Senegal, Tanzania
News from past months
In the Press - January 2018
- New initiative pushes up rice output in Machinga
January 30, 2018, The Nation (Malawi) - SRI boosting rice production in Machinga [African Institute of Corporate Citizenship (AICC) says the SRI (SRI) among farmers in Machinga has helped to increase production
January 29, 2018, MANA Online (Malawi) - As the republic chugged into 69th year... [Notes that special award for achieving the highest yield of paddy in the state was given to farmer R Munusamy from Kullanur village who used SRI]
January 27, 2018, The Times of India (Tamil Nadu, India) -
DOST exec hails organic farmers, assures technical support [ZIDOFA Farmers Group gets accolades for SRI work]
January 26, 2018, The Daily Guardian (Panay, Philippines) - Ketahanan pangan dan potensi pertanian (2-Habis) [Trisakti University prof notes SRI among food security measures.]
January 25, 2018, ProKaltim (Kalimantan, Indonesia) - ABU trains Bakolori farmers on new rice farming techniques [The Institute for Agricultural Research of the Ahmadu Bello University Zaria is training 1000 Bakolori farmers in SRI methods.]
January 18, 2018, Daily Trust (Nigeria) - Promoting sustainable agriculture [Biksham Gujja promotes SRI/SSI for TEC India agenda of the 2017-18 Union Budget]
January 24, 2018, milleniumpost (India) - Organic, regenerative agriculture thru SRI cultivation [Story of Zarraga Integrated Diversified Organic Farmers Association (ZIDOFA), who have used organic SRI since 2015]
January 15, 2018, The Daily Guardian (Iloilo, Philippines) - 青農的美好年代 屏科大「農藝復興」傳奇 [National Pingtung University in Taiwan values values and mixes smart technologies with traditional methods - cites SRI as example]
January 12, 2018, Business Weekly (Taiwan) - A river runs through it [The Cauvery water sharing dispute... SRI/SSI could reduce water need]
January 11, 2018, Deccan Chronicle (Karnataka, India) -
Nkwanta rice farmers undergo climate-smart agric training [Rice Farmer Group training by Adidome Farm Institute incorporates SRI methods]
January 10, 2018, citifmonline (Ghana) - Seed chronicles [SRI used by Centre for Indian Knowledge Systems for producing indigenous seeds because it requires fewer seeds.]
January 9, 2018, The Hindu (India) - Petani Lebak mulai panen [SRI now common throughout Lebak Regency, and has raised yields from 5.6 tons/ha to 8.2-9.0 tons/ha]
January 7, 2018, AntaraBanten (Banten, Indonesia) - Genjot produksi padi lewat SRI [West Sumatera Govt. to promote SRI in several locations in order to increase rice production in 2018]
January 6, 2018, AntataJambi (Jambi, Indonesia) - K Nadha Nugraha kembali digelar [One of the awardees of the K. Nadha Nugraha Award was Subak Mambal, an irrigation association in Abiansemal for its work with organic rice production using SRI.]
January 5, 2018, Bali Post (Bali, Indonesia) - Amoron'i mania: Miarinavaratra inaugure la PNEFP [200 women trained in SRI in Miarinavaratra in Madagascar's Fandriana district]
January 4, 2018, News Mada (Madagascar) - Rétrospective 2017 - Riziculture : Des pas géants [ANCAR and SAED helped improve rice production through promotion of SRI]
January 3, 2018, le soleil (Senegal)
Blog Posts and Website Articles - accessed during January 2018
- Zbinden, Raphaël. 2018 Agriculture bio: plaidoyer pour les "crapauds fous." cath.ch website. January 25.
- Gujja, Biksham. 2018. Budget 2018: Time for promoting sustainable agriculture with focus on improving productivity of major crops. January 23. [Author suggests SRI, SCI, SSI, relevant for the 2017-18 Union Budget in India]
- *Panda, Luna, and Muralidhar Adhikari. 2017. Intensification of finger millet production – An agroecological innovation. LEISA India 19(4) 10-13. [An article on SFMI in this issue on millet farming systems] [accessed January 21, 2018]
- *Kumbhar, Nitin, Ananda Wani, Sameer Raskar and Prithviraj Gaikwad. 2017. System of Crop Intensification – Promoting a profitable crop sequence of finger millet and chickpea. LEISA India 19(4) 14-17. [An article in this issue on millet farming systems] [accessed January 21, 2018]
- 2018. Phumani. sri4women.org. January 10. [The story of a rice farmer in Odisha, India, and how transplanting and other rice field activities has crippled her and others.. SRI reduces the strain.] [accessed January 20, 2018]
- Kaplan, Liz. 2018. Lotus Foods Urges Consumers to “Do The Rice Thing™”. Specialty Food Association website. January 16. [Lotus Foods sources SRI rice from Africa and Asia.]
- Agudelo, Pilar. 2016. Validación del sistema intensivo de cultivo de arroz – SICA en Saldaña. Instituto Interamericano de Cooperación para la Agricultura (IICA) website. September 6. [accessed Jan. 11, 2018]
- Hansen-Kuhn, Karen. 2018. A journey toward gender equity in agroecology. Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy (IATP) website. January 9. [Group in Mexico cites women's collective experience in Tamil Nadu experience in using SRI to advance agroecology] [accessed Jan.11, 2018]
- Witkowski, Kelly. 2017. System of Rice Intensification in the Americas: Progress report. Inter-American Institute for Cooperation on Agriculture (IICA) website. December 2017. [accessed January 11, 2018]
- Sy, Souleymane Diam. 2017. Riziculture pluviale : La méthode Sri donne des résultats satisfaisants dans le bassin arachidier. West Africa Agricultural Productivity Program (WAAPP) website. November. [accessed Jan. 5, 2018]
Latest Research / Journal Articles / Theses - links acquired during January 2018
(in order of acquisition. See also complete alphabetized list of journal articles.)
[Note: • Red dot indicates the publication is freely available.]
- • Stoop, W. A., et al. 2017. Opportunities for ecological intensification: lessons and insights from the System of Rice/crop Intensification - their implications for agricultural research and development approaches. CAB Reviews 12(036): 1-19.
- • Attia, A. M. E., et al. Improvement System of Rice Intensification (Sri) for some rice genotypes. Journal of Plant Production, Mansoura Univ. 8(11): 1147-1151.
- • Katambara, Zacharia, et al. 2013. Adopting the system of rice intensification (SRI) in Tanzania: A review. Agricultural Sciences 4(8): 1-7. doi:10.4236/as.2013.48053 [accessed January 17, 2018]
- • Johnson, J., et al. 2018. Farmers' perceptions on mechanical weeders for rice production in Sub-Saharan Africa. Experimental Agriculture, 1-15. doi:10.1017/S001447971700059X [accessed January 17, 2018]
- • Scheidel, A., B. Lim., K. Sok., and P. Duk. 2017. Leapfrogging agricultural development: Cooperative initiatives among Cambodian small farmers to handle sustainability constraints. In: Fraňková E., Haas W., Singh S. (eds) Socio-Metabolic Perspectives on the Sustainability of Local Food Systems. Human-Environment Interactions, vol 7. Springer, Cham. 10.1007/978-3-319-69236-4_8 [accessed January 15, 2018]
- • Mallikarjun, Channa, and Syed Sadaqath. 2017. Constraints and suggestions of SRI method of paddy growers in Dharwad district, Karnataka, India. Agriculture Update 12(3): 361-364 ref.14. doi: 10.15740/has/au/12.3/361-364 [accessed January 15, 2018]
- Arman, Effendi Ar. 2017. Perbaikan teknologi budidaya padi (Oryza sativa L.) metode SRI (the System of Rice Intensification) melalui optimasi lahan serta pengelolaan popluasi dan gulma. PhD dissertation, Universitas Andalas (Indonesia). 10.25077/06301015 [accessed January 9, 2018]
- Bourjac, Mathilde, et al. 2017. Sustainable intensification of rainfed lowland rice systems: A case study in Xieng Khouang Province in Lao PDR. ECHO Development Notes 34: 37-39. [Presentation at 6th Biennial ECHO Asia Agriculture and Community Development Conference, Thailand, Oct. 3-16, 2017] [accessed January 8, 2018]
- • Aziez, A.F., E. Hanudin, and S. Harieni. 2018. Impact of water management on root morphology, growth and yield component varieties of lowland rice under the organic system of rice intensification. Journal of Degraded and Mining Lands Management 5(2): 1035-1045. doi:10.15243/jdmlm.2018.052.1035 [accessed January 8, 2018]
- Islam, Mokidul. 2014. Productivity and socio-economic impact of system of rice intensification and integrated crop management over conventional methods of rice establishment in eastern Himalayas, India. Paddy and Water Environment 12(1): 193–202. [accessed January 4, 2018]
- • Reddy, P. Maheswara, et al. 2017. Response of machine transplanted rice (Oryza sativa L.) to different nitrogen and phosphorus levels during Rabi. 6(12): 2683-2688. doi:10.20546/ijcmas.2017.612.310 [accessed January 3, 2018]
- Oo, Aung Zaw, et al. 2018. Methane and nitrous oxide emissions from conventional and modified rice cultivation systems in South India. Agriculture, Ecosystems & Environment 252: 148-158 (Online 15 January 2018). doi:10.1016/j.agee.2017.10.014 [SRI conditions in this article are called "YW-AWD"] [accessed January 3, 2018]
- • Hasanah, Nur Aini Iswati, Budi Indra Setiawan, Chusnul Arif, and Slamet Widodo. 2017. Muka air optimum pada System of Rice Intensification (SRI). Jurnal Irigasi 12(1): 55-64. [accessed January 3, 2018]
- Ghoshal, Riya, Anindita Saha, and Debabrata Basu. 2017. Social impact of System of Rice Intensification (SRI) in North 24 Parganas district of West Bengal. Journal of Interacademicia 21(3): 282-286 ref.8. [accessed January 3, 2017]
New Links to Publications - January 2018
- Shiney, Varghese. 2011. Women at the center of climate-friendly approaches to agriculture. Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy website. [This 20-page publication discusses SRI on page 15-16 (water conservation section) and also includes a section on SRI as Annex 2.] [accessed January 10, 2017]
- Zotoglo, Kokou, and Djiguiba Kouyaté. 2011. Manuel de formation Système de Riziculture Intensive (SRI). USAID website. (14p. pdf) [French language SRI manual by USAID/Afrique de l’Ouest and USAID/Mali [accessed January 4, 2018]
- 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. Con la revisión y contextualización de Pedro A. Núñez Ramos (IDIAF) y de Kelly Witkowski (IICA).] [accessed January 2, 2018]
Documents Uploaded and New Pages Created/Updated on our Website - January 2018
- [Websites updated during January 2018: 2018, 2017, 2016, about, contacts, homepage, extension materials, journal articles, India journal articles, NTU Trip Reports, Spanish docs, videos, Burkina Faso, Cambodia, Colombia, Egypt, Ghana, Ghana Archives, India, Indonesia, Laos, Madagascar, Nepal, Philippines, Senegal, Tanzania]
- World Neighbors. 2017. World Neighbors experience with SRI in Kavre, Nepal. SRI-Rice website (9p., 971KB pdf)
- Tech, Chey. 2006. Ecological System of Rice Intensification (SR) impact assessment in 2001-2005. SRI-Rice website (21p.,367KB pdf) [Assessment for the NGO CEDAC in Cambodia].
- Fisher, Lucy. 2017. December additions to the SRI-Rice website. (New page on the SRI-Rice website.) [uploaded January 3, 2018]
Videos/Audio - January 2018
- Video: 2018 (January 18). 04 SRI - Colombia nuevo. 1:19 min. IICA channel, Vimeo. [Interview with Raul Guzman Montcaleano about SRI advantages and trials.]
- Video: 2018 (January 18). 03 SRI - Nicaragua nuevo. 3:32 min. IICA channel, Vimeo. [Video about Nicaraguan SRI trials.]
- Video: 2018 (January 18). 07 SRI - Fedearroz nuevo. 3:42 min. IICA channel, Vimeo. [Video from Fedearroz about past and upcoming SRI trials, plus mention of an upcoming workshop.]
- Video: 2018 (January 10). SRI4Women - Phumani. 8:52 min. SRI4women channel, Vimeo. [Story of how rice production work affects women. (SRI reduces the workload)]
- Video: 2018 (January 13). System of Rice Intensification Transforming Lives in Tanzania. 3:45 min. Kilimo Biashara channel, Youtube. [Video about a young SRI farmer in Ilonga Village, near Kilosa, Tanzania; the project is implemented with technical support from FAO in collaboration with the Government of Tanzania and funded by the Government of Venezuela through the South South Cooperation.]
- Video: 2018 (January 7). How to produce Paddy under System of Rice Intensification (SRI) Method; Part 01 (About the System) 2:55 min.; Part 2 (Transplanting) 6:18 min. and Part 3 (Management) 3:17 .min. Innertia channel, YouTube. [This is a three-part instructional ppt presentation from India prepared as three separate videos.]
Presentations (PowerPoints) - January 2018
- Gayakwad, Jagdish. 2017. Rice culture and greenhouse gas emission. 71 slides. Presentation from Dept. of Agronomy UAS, Raichur, Karnataka, India. [SRI discussion begins at slide 12 and occasionally thereafter] [uploaded by author May 8, 2017; accessed by SRI-Rice January 7, 2018]
* = System of Crop Intensification (SCI)
