March 2018 - Additions to the SRI-Rice Website
(Links to online material)
• SRI-RICE STATISTICS FOR MARCH 2018:
SRI-Rice website: 3,022 users (2,481 last month) from 89 countries (77 last month) logged 3,839 sessions (3,149 last month) in which 6,728 pages (6,188 last month) were viewed. [Top ten user countries in order of sessions: India, USA, Philippines, Australia, Brazil, Indonesia, Malaysia, Tanzania, Nepal and UK]
Facebook pages: 1) SRI-Rice: All-time likes 2,440 (8 new). 2) SRI Equipment Innovators Exchange: 343 members (0 new) 3) SRI West Africa: 2,126 members (-8), SICA America Latina: 1,079 total likes (10 new)
YouTube (primary): 2,139 (1,884 last month) new views this month for our 88 uploads. 306 views (221 last month) for our 41 playlists (not including our India YouTube channel). 531 subscribers (28 new). 128,238 all time views of our videos. 86,160 lifetime views of our playlists [NOTE!: The 8 India playlists from the SRI India video channel are now accessible on the main SRI-Rice video channel].
Twitter: 1,700 followers (15 new this month)
Slideshare: 8,338 (4,845 last month) views new this month; 487 slideshows/posters total uploaded, 225 followers (2 new)
Research Databases: There are 1,310 items (974 journal articles) in our Zotero research database (29 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 March 2018: 2018 additions, Bangladesh, Ecuador, India, India Archives, Kenya, Myanmar, Nicaragua, Nigeria, Philippines, Taiwan, Tanzania, Venezuela, Vietnam, Vietnam Archives, home page, SCI, SCI-other, SWI, marketing, country index, events, journal articles, India journals, Spanish docs, seminars
News from past months
In the Press - March 2018
- INIA presentó en Parral nuevo sistema de producción de arroz para enfrentar el cambio climático [Chile: INIA has trails on adapted SRI in Maule regions and northern part of Ñuble, and SRI field day with 130 farmers near Parral.]
March 28, 2018, Mundo Agropecuario (Chile) [Story also covered in El Heraldo] - Farming in Tamil Nadu ready for a turnaround
March 25, 2018, The Hindu (Tamil Nadu, India) - Desa Ranggagata jadi lokasi percontohan
March 22, 2018, Radar Mandalika (Nusa Tenggara Barat, Indonesia) [similar article in kicknews.today] - Mendulang rupiah melalui tanam padi 'Nyeleneh' ala SRI organik [Insights on organic SRI, increased tillering and yield, and how/why to do it]
March 21, 2018, Liputan6 (Jawa Tengah, Indonesia) - Budget for 2018-19 lays thrust on agro processing sector [TN state budget: SRI will be promoted on 10 lakh hectares during 2018-2019.]
March 15, 2018, The Hindu Business Line (Tamil Nadu, India) - ECOWAS, CORAF collaborate to improve rice production
March 14, 2018, Leadership (Nigeria) - Farmers’ income doubled in six years [State Ag. Minister says SRI has been adopted to increase the production of rice at low cost]
March 10, 2018, United News of India (Kolkata, India) - Woman conservationist from Odisha receives ‘Nari Shakti Award’
March 9, 2018, Odisha Sun Times (Odisha, India) - Tra Vinh: AMD project helps farmers adapt to climate change [Priority for $1.54 million “Adaptation in the Mekong Delta” (AMD) project is for clean and water-saving vegetable cultivation, rice under SRI, and aquaculture.]
March 7, 2018, Vietnam+ (Vietnam) - Agri budget presented in Assembly [(SRI) has been adopted to increase the production of rice at low cost.]
March 5, 2018, Millennium Post (West Bengal(?), India) - Tanzania: New technology brings fortune Kilosa rice farmers [SRI allows paddy farmers to yield 350,000 kg per quarter acre as opposed to the traditional farming method that produces between 150,000 kg and 190,000 kg per quarter acre. It is implemented in Kilosa and Mvomero district centres.]
March 5, 2018, AllAfrica.com (Tanzania)
Blog Posts and Website Articles - accessed during March 2018
- Paddock, Catherine. 2018. Nature-based solutions needed for better management of water, says UN report. Market Business News, March 26.
- 2018. Going beyond pieties on world water day. The Economic Times blog. March 21. [Editorial about The UN World Water Development Report 2018 which stresses nature-based solutions (NBS); cites SRI is useful to reduce water use.]
- 2018. World Water Development Report 2018: Nature-based Solutions for Water. UN Water website. March 19. [Similar to above article}
- UNESCO. 2018. Access to safe water: Is the Green Revolution around the corner? Inter Press Service News Agency website. March 19. [UNESCO article cites SRI as example of green architecture.]
- Hill, Joe, Mukund Kujur, Nishant and Madhaw. 2018. Empowering Jharkhand’s female farmers. SPWD (Society for Promotion of Wastelands Development) blog. March 8. [In an article about the Mahila Kisan Shashaktikaran Pariyojna (MKSP) in Jharkhand, SRI (known as "sribidi") began in 2014, a year the rains failed. The SRI fields produced good quality rice while the others were a loss.]
- 2018. PRAN: Infusing new life into agriculture in Bharat PRAN. Dilip's Desk blog. March 15. [Story about the Indian NGO PRAN, which uses promotes SRI.
- 2017. SRI probiotics friendly-farming method allows soil to breathe: Waiting for rich harvest. National Pingtung University of Science and Technology website. December 1. [Director of the NPUST Department of Civil Engineering, Professor Yu-Min Wang, oversees the Water Conservation Lab responsible,a 10 year research initiative on improved crop cultivation methods. The SRI Probiotics Project has received funding from the Council of Agriculture, the Pingtung Irrigation Association and the SRI Society of Conservation Agriculture (CA-SRI)]
- 2018. Trinamool Congress has doubled farmers’ income in six years. All India Trinamool Congress website. March 10. [State Ag. Minister says SRI has been adopted to increase the production of rice at low cost]
Latest Research / Journal Articles / Theses - links acquired during March 2018
(in order of acquisition. See also complete alphabetized list of journal articles.)
[Note: • Red dot indicates the publication is freely available.]
- • Mwatete, Gibson, et al. 2017. Comparing the economic performance of two rice technologies in West Kano Irrigation Scheme, Kenya. Africa Environmental Review Journal 2(2): 93-106. [accessed March 25, 2018.]
- • Sudhakara, T.M., et al. 2017. Productivity of rice as influenced by irrigation regimes and nitrogen management practices under SRI. Annals of Plant and Soil Research 19(3): 253-259 [accessed March 21, 2018]
- • Nayak, Amruta, and Sabyaschi Biswal. 2018. Performance of rice in modified conventional System over of Rice Intensification (SRI). International Journal of Current Microbiology and Applied Sciences 6: 2163-2168 [accessed March 21, 2018]
- • Dhaliwal, L. K., et al. 2018. Effect of meteorological parameters on incidence of brown leaf spot in rice crop under different planting methods. Journal of agrometeorology 20(1):53-56 [accessed March 21, 2018]
- • Paramasivan, M. 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 21, 2018]
- • Vijayakumar, M., et al. 2017. Refinement of fertilizer recommendation based on Soil Test Crop Response technology for rice under System of Rice Intensification. Journal of Applied and Natural Science 9(2): 855-859 [accessed March 21, 2018]
- *• Rana, Lalita, et al. 2017. System of wheat intensification (SWI) – A new approach for increasing wheat yield in small holder farming system. Journal of Applied and Natural Science 9(3): 1453-1464 [accessed March 21, 2018]
- • Kumar, R. Mahender, et al. 2017. Influence of different methods of rice (Oryza sativa l.) cultivation on microbes, soil health, water productivity and grain yield. Journal of Pharmacognosy and Phytochemistry SP1: 394-399
- • Ochoa, Esteban, et al. 2017. Comparación de un sistema de intensificación del cultivo de arroz (SICA) con sistemas tradicionales de siembra en la zona de Churute, Ecuador (Comparing a system of rice intensification (SRI) with traditional cropping systems in Churute, Ecuador). Ciencia y Tecnología (Cienc Tecn UTEQ) 10(1): 1-6.
- Singh, Ram, and S. M. Feroze. 2016. Impact of SRI method on livelihood and food security of rice grower in Tripura: An empirical analysis. Agricultural Economics Research Review 29(conf): 225. [accessed March 10, 2018]
- • Hosain, T., et al. 2018. Response of physiological characteristics and productivity of hybrid rice varieties under System of Rice Intensification (SRI) over the traditional cultivation. International Journal of Plant Biology & Research 6(2): 1085. [accessed March 10, 2018]
- Choudhary, Anil K., and Vinod K. Suri. 2018. System of rice intensification in promising rice hybrids in north-western Himalayas: crop and water productivity, quality, and economic profitability. Journal of Plant Nutrition 41(8): 1020-1034, doi:10.1080/01904167.2018.1431675 [accessed March 9, 2018]
New Links to Publications (pdfs, books, etc.) - March 2018
- Krishi Bhavan. 2017. A farmer friendly handbook for Government of India (Central) & Government of Goa (State): Schemes and Programmes in 2017-2018. Govt. of Goa Agriculture website. (24p. pdf) [Lists promotion of SRI (Incentive@Rs. 10000/-per ha. to improve rice productivity) and promotion of modified Sustainable Sugarcane Initiative (SSI) (50% assistance limited to Rs. 10000/- per ha. toward land preparation and planting of new crop)] [accessed March 17, 2018]
Documents Uploaded and New Pages Created/Updated on our Website - March 2018
- [SRI-Rice website pages updated during March 2018: 2018 additions, Bangladesh, Ecuador, India, India Archives, Kenya, Myanmar, Nicaragua, Nigeria, Philippines, Taiwan, Tanzania, Venezuela, Vietnam, Vietnam Archives, home page, SCI, SCI-other, SWI, marketing, country index, events, journal articles, India journals, Spanish docs, seminars]
- New page on the SRI website: Venezuela [created March 30, 2018]
- 2018. Flyer for Regina Hansda seminar on March 22, 2018. SRI-Rice website. [Posted March 14, 2018]
- Fisher, Lucy. 2017. February additions to the SRI-Rice website. (New page on the SRI-Rice website.) [uploaded March 14, 2018]
Videos/Audio - March 2018
- Video: 2017 (December 21). Le Système de Riziculture Intensive (SRI 01 - FR). 14:25 min. Stéphane Corduant channel, YouTube. [French language video for FAO made by Tsimba Randriamiarintsoa with support from Nicolas Duriez.]
- Video: 2018 (March 27). System of Rice Intensification (SRI). 12:43 min. sigit nur setiawan channel, YouTube. [In Bahasa Indonesia. This video was produced by Sketsa Multimedia to accompany a book launch by the Institut Pertanian Bogor (IPB) in Indonesia.]
Presentations (PowerPoints) - March 2018
- None during March
* = System of Crop Intensification (SCI)
