May 2018 - Additions to the SRI-Rice Website
(Links to online material)
• SRI-RICE STATISTICS FOR May 2018:
SRI-Rice website: 4,109 users (3,213 last month) from 94 countries (87 last month) logged 5,089 sessions (4,124 last month) in which 9,724 pages (7,184 last month) were viewed. [Top ten user countries in order of sessions: India, USA, Philippines, Tanzania, Malaysia, Pakistan, Australia, UK, Indonesia, and France]
Facebook pages: 1) SRI-Rice: All-time likes 2,458; 2,440 follows. 2) SRI Equipment Innovators Exchange: 346 members (1 new) 3) SRI West Africa: 2,113 members (-3), SICA America Latina: 1,082 total likes; 1,0894 follows.
YouTube (primary): 3,378 (2,303 last month) new views this month for our 89 uploads. 403 views (523 last month) for our 41 playlists (not including our India YouTube channel). 596 subscribers (25 new). 129,998 all time views of our videos. 86,888 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: 1,720 followers (13 new this month)
Slideshare: 6,617 (6,283 last month) views new this month; 489 slideshows/posters total uploaded, 226 followers (1 new)
Research Databases: There are 1,351 items (997 journal articles) in our Zotero research database (41 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 May 2018: 2018 additions, April monthly update, Cambodia, Colombia (sp, en), Costa Rica (sp, en), DPRK, Ecuador (sp, en), India, Indonesia, Korea, Madagascar, Mali, Nigeria, Panama, (sp, en), Peru (en only), Venezuela (sp,en), journal articles, India journals, India news, India publications, NTU trip reports, projects, seminars]
News from past months
In the Press - May 2018
- To paraquat or not to paraquat [Request by author to bring SRI to Guyana]
May 28, 2018, Guyana Times (Guyana) - Harish Kumar strikes gold by adopting integrated farming method
May 30, 2018, The Hitavada (Chhattisgarh, India) - Farmers trained on System of Rice Intensification management [SRI training at Ahthibung block under Atma Peren]
May 29, 2018, Morung Express (Nagaland, India) - Weekend, Bupati Luwu Timur Sambangi petani di Angkona [Bupati of Luwu Timur, South Sulawesi, monitored SRI progress in Village Manggala, District Mangkutana.]
May 7, 2018, TribunLutim (South Sulawesi, Indonesia) - When Bhivpuri took a u-turn [Rural Communes NGO promotes SRI/SCI to improve yields. Better ventilation by spacing rows ensures improved growth, and shorter periods for crops to attain maturity.]
May 4, 2018, Hindu Business Line (Maharashtra, India) - *Government project to boost cane production [TN Ag. Dept. promoting SSI to deal with changing climate conditions and to raise yields.]
May 4, 2018, New Indian Express (Tamil Nadu, India) - Farmers urged to be proactive [Chet Bahadur was awarded as the best progressive farmer (organic farming) shared his SRI success story in May 2 Farmer Welfare Workshop in Singrijan village]
May 3, 2018, Morung Express (Nagaland, India) - Bumper vegetable, wheat yields push back farm distress in UP [At a time when farmers across the country are feeling marginalized, many unable to meet the rising costs of seeds, fertilisers, weighed down by loans, the Aga Khan Foundation (AKF)SRI and SWI yields of both crops have increased 50 to 100 per cent and additional income has come from high value vegetable cultivation.]
May 2, 2018, The Asia Age (Uttar Pradesh, India) - Farmers’ welfare meet aims at doubling farmers’ income by 2022 [At farmers' welfare workshop, Neiliehunuo Solo shared her success story on how SRI helped her to decrease the labour and increase the yield and motivated her to till her paddy field after a gap of six years.]
May 2, 2018, Eastern Mirror (Nagaland, India) - Climate-smart production boosts West African rice self-sufficiency [New book recounts SRI experience SRI-WAAPP program, which involved 50,000 farmers in 13 West African countries.]
May 1, 2018, Cornell Chronicle (New York: Re: West Africa)
Blog Posts and Website Articles - accessed during May 2018
- A., Marc. 2018. Mercuriale: Le riz Makalioka 1.800 Ar. chez les détaillant. MA-TV website. May 31. [French article from Madagascar about SRI]
- 2018. Le SRI, garantie de l’autosuffisance en riz. SciDev.net. May 29. [Review of the book about the SRI-WAAPP program in West Africa.]
- 2018. Terraced rice fields in Northern Vietnam. Paradise Travel website. May 25. [Tourist info that includes SRI!]
- 2018. Enhanced photosynthesis (technology factsheet). Geoengineering Monitor. May 24. [SRI noted in discussion of yield ceilings. The article is about C3 to C4 technology]
- Martin, Miranda Carver. 2018. Report reveals groundbreaking results for rice farming. Food Tank website. May 30. [Review of the book about the SRI-WAAP program in West Africa.]
- Damassa, Thomas. 2018. A development model for the 21st century: Addressing poverty by tackling climate change. The Politics of Poverty blog. May 15. [Oxfam policy analysis that includes discussion of SRI.]
- 2017. What is the environmental impact of sushi? World Wildlife Magazine. Winter 2017. [SRI is part of the story!]
- 2018. System of Rice Intensification (SRI). Plant Genomics blog. May 26. [Basic description of SRI]
- 2018. Climate change affects farmers in northeast. Reliefweb website. May 22 (Vietnam)
- Vidal, John. 2018. A new farming technique using drastically less water is catching on. Huffington Post. May 15.
- Murrel, Ebony. 2018. Managing crops for climate change can also manage pests. Science Trends website. May 16. [SRI, a planting strategy for rice fields that spaces plants more widely and reduces the number of times the field is flooded, not only reduces methane emissions from the fields but also reduces infestation by multiple insect pest species.]
- 2018. Off-season rice fends off Malian farmers from climate stress. CORAF website. May 11. [Also advertised by Food Tank]
- 2018. Grant program for scholars in low emissions development expands; 2018 recipients announced. CCAFS website. May 7. [Abubakar Halilu Girei, a student at Ahmadu Bello University in Nigeria, will do his short-term research at CIAT, focusing on soil quality and greenhouse gas emissions under SRI practices in Kadawa, Sudan savanna agroecological zone of Nigeria.
- 2018. Le riz de contre-saison épargne les agriculteurs maliens du stress des variations climatiques. CORAF website. May 11. [French article about SRI in Mali.]
- Jin-gook, Kim. 2018. 미NGO, 신규 농업기술 지원 위해 방북 (US NGO to visit North Korea to support new agricultural technology). Radio Free Asia website. May 9. (in Korean language). This article is about a visit to North Korea by a American Friend Service to follow up on ag technologies, including SRI with individual seedlings grown in trays. See also Korean radio broadcast )
- Laats, Henkjan. 2018. Een agroecologische evolutie is beter voor Afrika dan een ecomodernistische revolutie. de Volkskrant website. May 5. [Dutch article about SRI and agroecology in Senegal.]
Latest Research / Journal Articles / Theses - links acquired during May 2018
(in order of acquisition. See also complete alphabetized list of journal articles.)
[Note: • Red dot indicates the publication is freely available.]
- • Arif, Chusnul, et al. 2018. Developing automatic water table control System for reducing greenhouse gas emissions from paddy fields. IOP Conference Series: Earth and Environmental Science 147(1): 012040. doi: 10.1088/1755-1315/147/1/012040 [accessed May 14, 2018]
- • Ardiansyah, et al. 2018. Biomass development in SRI field under unmaintained alternate wetting-drying irrigation. IOP Conference Series: Earth and Environmental Science 147(1): 012041. doi: 10.1088/1755-1315/147/1/012041 [accessed May 14, 2018]
- • Jat, A. L., et al. 2018. Biological potential and economic feasibility of rice (Oryza sativa L.): Wheat (Triticum aestivum L.) Cropping system under northern Gangetic alluvial plains. International Journal of Chemical Studies 6(2): 2184-2187. [accessed May 14, 2018]
- Lee, Yun Ho, and Kazuhiki Kobayashi. 2018. Assessing the acceptance of the system of rice intensification among farmers in rainfed lowland rice region of Cambodia. Paddy and Water Environment (online first) 1-9. doi: 10.1007/s10333-018-0646-y [accessed May 14, 2018]
- • Hossain, M. et al. 2017. Growth and yield performance of BRRI Dhan29 to manures and fertilizers under both conventional and SRI system. International Journal of Plant & Soil Science 19(2): 1-5. [accessed May 14, 2018]
- Seo, Jiyeon, et al. 2017. SRI 물 관리 방법에 따른 하천수질 개선효과 분석 Analysis of river water quality improvement effect by SRI water management method. Korean Society of Agricultural Engineers 61. [accessed May 14, 2018]
- • Hottle, Ryan, and Thomas Damassa. 2018. Mitigating poverty and climate change: How reducing short-lived climate pollutants can support pro-poor, sustainable development. Oxfam Research Backgrounder series. 57 p. [accessed May 14, 2018]
- Ansari, Hanafi, et al. 2014. Pengaruh dosis pupuk dan jerami padi terhadap kandungan unsur hara tanah serta produksi pad sawah pada sistem padi SRI (System of Rice Intensification). Agrotekoteknologi 2(3): 1048-1055. [accessed May 14, 2018]
- Pinazo Caldas, M. V. 2017. Comparación de tres sistemas de transplante manual en arroz (Oryza sativa L.) en el valle Jequetepequ. Universidad Nacional Agraria La Molina Lima Peru Facultad De Agronomia repository. 88p pdf. [accessed May 14, 2018]
- Pono, Maat, et al. 2016. Explaining determinant of post adoption behaviour of small scale farmers: Evident of System of Rice Intensification (SRI) practices in Indonesia. 34(5): 637-634. doi: 10.5829/idosi.wasj.2016.34.5.15641 [accessed May 14, 2018]
- Thakur, Amod K. 2018. Rice root growth, photosynthesis, yield and water productivity improvements through modifying cultivation practices and water management. Agricultural Water Management 206: 67-77. doi:10.1016/j.agwat.2018.04.027 [accessed May 13, 2018]
- Kim, Gun-Yeob, et al. 2012. Mitigation of Greenhouse Gases by water management of SRI (System of Rice Intensification) in rice paddy fields. Korean Journal of Soil Science and Fertilizer 45(6): 1173-1178. 10.7745/KJSSF.2012.45.6.1173 [accessed May 8, 2018]
- • Mittal, Shreyansh, and Sanjay K. Sharma. 2018. Effect of different approaches of fertilizer recommendations on yield, nutrient uptake and economics of rice under SRI. Journal of Pharmacognosy and Phytochemistry 7(2): 761-765. [accessed May 3, 2018]
- • Pogula, Sowmya, and K. K. Rout, 2018. Effect of different manurial practices on soil microbial activity under SRI method of rice planting. International Journal of Current Microbiology and Applied Sciences 7(4): 3221-3227. doi:10.20546/ijcmas.2018.704.365 [accessed May 3, 2018]
- • Debberma, B., D. Ram, M.K. Singh and M. Deepa Devi. 2018. Extent of adoption of System of Rice Intensification (SRI) technology by the farmers of Tripura. International Journal of Current Microbiology and Applied Sciences. 7(4): 1853-1861. doi:10.20546/ijcmas.2018.704.211 [accessed May 3, 2018]
New Links to Publications (pdfs, books, etc.) - May 2018
- 2018. Producir más con menos mediante el Sistema Intensivo del Cultivo de Arroz (SRI). IICA website. [Entry page to a six module two week SRI course in Spanish by the Instituto Interamericano de Cooperación para la Agricultura.] (accessed May 2018)
- 2018. Note sur le système de rizipermaculture ZANATANY. Journal de L'Agro-Ecologie 4:20 (January-March) [accessed May 31, 2018]
- Styger, Erika and Gaoussou Traoré. 2018. 50,000 farmers in 13 countries: Results from scaling up the System of Rice Intensification in West Africa; Achievements and regional perspectives for SRI; SRI-WAAPP Project Summary Report, 2014-2016; West Africa Agriculture Productivity Program (WAAPP). The West and Central Africa Council for Agricultural Research and Development (CORAF/WECARD), Dakar, Senegal. 120p.
- Sinha, Biswanath, Tushar Dash, and Ashotosh Pal. 2018. Scaling up the System of Rice Intensification in India. In Agroecology: A path towards the sustainable development goals. Farming Matters, May 3. Ileia website.
Documents Uploaded and New Pages Created/Updated on our Website - May 2018
- [SRI-Rice website pages updated during May 2018:2018 additions, April monthly update, Cambodia, Colombia (sp, en), Costa Rica (sp, en), DPRK, Ecuador (sp, en), India, Indonesia, Korea, Madagascar, Mali, Nigeria, Panama, (sp, en), Peru (en only), Venezuela (sp,en), journal articles, India journals, India news, India publications, NTU trip reports, projects, seminars]
- 2018. Flyer for Biksham Gujja seminar on May 24, 2018. SRI-Rice website. [Posted May 19, 2018]
- Singh, V.P., Uday Shankar, and Pradip Bora. 2007. Feasibility study to support System of Rice Intensification (SRI). SRI-Rice website. [Posted on May 3, 2018]
- Fisher, Lucy. 2017. April additions to the SRI-Rice website. (New page on the SRI-Rice website.) [uploaded May 10, 2018]
Videos/Audio - May 2018
- *Video: 2018 (May 26). Interview with Prem Singh regarding system of wheat intensification. Arun Jaral channel, YouTube. (Story BY ATMA of a Nadia district SRI farmer in West Bengal.)
- Video: 2018 (May 27). Success Story of Sri Bipul Mondal for SRI (System of Rice Intensification) Paddy Cultivation. Kanchan Das channel, YouTube. (Story BY ATMA of a Nadia district SRI farmer in West Bengal.)
- Video: 2018 (May 9). Interview with Thein Su about the System of Rice Intensification (SRI) in Myanmar. SRI-Rice channel, YouTube.
Presentations (PowerPoints) - May 2018
- Setiawan W., Rio, Oki Selfiana Marsono, and Siti Umairoh N. H 2018. Kelompok A7 - Effiensi Produksi Lahan Pertanian dengan Sistem Crop-Livestock Production System sebagai Upaya Optimalisasi Lahan Pertanian Di Kec. Karangploso, Desa Kepuharjo. 15 slides. [Indonesian language slideshow about integrating livestock with SRI in Kec. Karangploso, Desa Kepuharjo, Jawa Timur, Indonesia)
* = System of Crop Intensification (SCI)
