November 2018 - Additions to the SRI-Rice Website
(Links to online material)
• SRI-RICE STATISTICS FOR November 2018:
SRI-Rice website: 2,945 users (3,077 last month) from 77 countries (79 last month) logged 3,693 sessions (4,047 last month) in which 6,174 pages (7,273 last month) were viewed. [Top ten countries in order of number of users: India (977), USA (260), Malawi, Philippines, Canada, Tanzania, UK, Malaysia, Indonesia, and Nepal.]
Facebook pages: 1) SRI-Rice: All-time likes 2,512; 2,495 follows. 2) SRI Equipment Innovators Exchange: 350 members, SRI West Africa: 2,084 members, SICA America Latina: 1,118 total likes; 1,129 follows.
YouTube (primary): 3,420 (3,564 last month) new views this month for our 89 uploads. 250 views (307 last month) for our 41 playlists (not including our India YouTube channel). 800 subscribers (19 new). 156,726 all time views of our videos. 88,395 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: 1,757 followers (9 new this month)
Slideshare: 12,748 (9,608 last month) views new this month; 515 slideshows/posters total uploaded, 235 followers
Research Databases: There are 1,459 items (1,114 journal articles), in our Zotero research database (17 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 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 November 2018: October additions, events, journal articles, India journal articles, resource updates, seminars, Spanish docs, theses, videos, Bangladesh, Cambodia, DPR Korea, DR, Indonesia, Iraq, Laos, Mali, Philippines, Thailand, Vietnam.
News from past months
In the Press -November 2018
- Petani mitra binaan Pertamina EP panen padi raya di Cilamaya
[CSR project guides farmers in Cilamaya Kulon to 11.2 ton harvest with organic SRI.]
November 23, 2018, TVBerita (west Java, Indonesia) - Mali: Gao: Journée porte ouverte sur le SRI à Forgho
November 12, 2018, Maliactu.net (Mali) - National Rice Festival celebrated in Accra [The President of the Ghana Rice Inter-professional Body (GRIB), Nana Agyei Ayeh II, at the fifth Ghana National Rice Festival held in Accra said the incentives (credit access and mechanization) would motivate the farmers to intensify production by adopting tried-and-tested technology of systems of rice intensification (SRI) to increase yield and boost production by at least 50 per cent.]
November 10, 2018, Graphic Online (Ghana) - Kunjungi Sleman, petani tembakau Blitar belajar bertani organik Ala Joglo Tani
November 8, 2018, JATIM Times (East Java, Indonesia) - Rice market to witness enhanced demand on account of technological advancement in the agriculture sector til 2022 | Million Insights [Notes that recent technological advancement in the agriculture sector in Asia coupled with development of modern rice production techniques such as SRI, laser land leveling, DSR, and precision farming are expected to drive market growth over the next seven years.
November 1, 2018, Central Texas News Now (Texas, USA) - Efforts on to promote SRI in paddy cultivation
October 31, 2018, The Hindu (Tamil Nadu, India)
Blog Posts and Website Articles - accessed during November 2018
- Kahfiani, Andi. 2018. Peningkatan produksi padi melalui metode System of Rice Intensification (SRI). CybExt Cyber Extension website. November 29. [Extension material in Indonesian on the basics of using SRI methods.]
- 2018. Seeing is believing. Growing Hope Globally website. [Article about an MCC-funded SRI project to reduce fertilizer use in North Central Vietnam.] [accessed November 29, 2018]
- 2018. Our new Organic systems of rice intensification (SRI) record. LOAMC-Philippines website. October 8. [League of Organic Agriculture Municipalities in the Philippines, Incorporated (LOAMC-Philippines) story of Dayaday of Barangay Daanbanwa, Lambunao, Iloilo, Philippines, who harvested 10.2 tons/hectare with Organic SRI practices.] [accessed November 25, 2018]
- Shatil, Tanvir. 2018. An engine of our growth. BRAC blog. November 14. [A study on how agriculture can reduce poverty-related suffering in Bangladesh highlights SRI as one of BRAC's programs that are integrating green technologies.]
- AIT. 2018. Boosting yields, raising incomes, and offering climate-smart solutions: System of Rice Intensification paves the way for farmers to emerge as more successful “agripreneurs”. Asian Institute of Technology website. November 5.
- Rodríguez, Lucía . 2018. LCN Member of the Month: Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS), Lemur Conservation Network blog. November 5, 2018. [Interview with World Conservation Society in which they report that several hundreds of households have benefited from improved production techniques, including improved irrigated rice intensification techniques (SRI-SRA) to improve rice productivity (with 4.7 T/ha in average instead of national average of 2.5T/ha).]
- 2018. Prof. Mati participates in IRC conference in Singapore and the Asia SRI Network meeting in Malaysia. JKUAT website. November 2. [Bancy Mati, JKUAT professor in Kenya attended SRI events in Singapore and Malaysia.]
Latest Research / Journal Articles / Theses - links acquired during November 2018
(in order of acquisition. See also complete alphabetized list of journal articles.)
[Note: • Red dot indicates the publication is freely available.]
- • Guzmán Familia, Miguel, and Jimmy R. Serrata Núñez. 2018. Evaluación de dos sistemas de producción: Sistema Intensivo del Cultivo de Arroz (Oryza sativa L.) y Convencional en Ranchito, La Vega. Ingeniero Agrónomo (Agricultural Engineer) thesis. Universidad Autónoma de Santo Domingo (UASD) (Dominican Republic). 86 p. [uploaded November 30, 2018]
- • Mahmud, Amir. 2018. Pengendalian gulma dengan beberapa jenis mulsa pada beberapa varitas tanaman padi sawah (Oryza sativa L.) dengan metode System of Rice Intensification (SRI). Jurnal AGROHITA 2(2): 30-40. [accessed November 29, 2018]
- • Silitonga, Yusnita Wahyuni, et al. 2018. Pengaruh beberapa jenis bahan organik terhadap pertumuhan vegetatif tanaman padi (Oryza sativa L) metode SRI (the System of Rice Intensification). Jurnal AGROHITA 2(2): 20-29. [accessed November 27, 2018]
- Arif, Chusnul. 2010. Optimizing water management in System of Rice Intensification paddy fields by field montitoring technology. PhD dissertation, University of Tokyo. [accessed November 15, 2018]
- Hossain, A. 2018. Crop establishment and weed management techniques to control in wet-rice weeds under lateritic soils of West Bengal. Indian Journal of Weed Science 50(2): 116-119. doi:10.5958/0974-8164.2018.00029 [accessed November 27, 2018]
- • Eyhorn, Frank, et al. 2018. Does organic farming provide a viable alternative for smallholder rice farmers in India? Sustainability 10(12), 4424; doi:10.3390/su10124424 [accessed November 27, 2018]
- • Behura, D. S. Haldar, and A. Pal. 2018. Resilient farm technologies in achieving sustainable development: Performance and Adoption of SRI under multiple constraints in Odisha, India. Presentation at the 30th International Conference of Agricultural Economists, Vancouver, Canada, July 28-August 2. [accessed November 26, 2018]
- • Hidayati, Nurul, Triadiati Triadiati, and Iswandi Anas. 2018. Rooting system of rice cultivated under System of Rice Intensification (SRI) method which improving rice yield. HAYATI Journal of Biosciences 25(2): 63-69. [accessed November 26, 2018]
- • Chandankutte, R. K., et al. 2018. Effect of crop establishment methods and integrated nutrient management practices on nutrient uptake and quality attributes of rice (Oryza sativa L.). Global Journal of Bio-Science and Biotechnology 7(2): 230-233. [accessed November 25, 2018]
- Shahane, Amit Anil, and Yashbir Singh Shivay. 2018. Effect of rate and sources of nitrogen, phosphorus and zinc fertilization on potassium nutrition of rice in different cultivation methods. International Journal of Bio-Resource & Stress Management 9(4): 460-467. [accessed November 25, 2018]
- • Tiwari, B. K., et al. 2017. Assessment of planting geometry in rice under system of rice intensification (SRI). Plant Archives 17(2): 1693-1696. [accessed November 18, 2018]
- • Bashar, Z. U., et al. 2019. SRI single seedling transplanting implement: an innovative technique to challenges on SRI planting and spacing techniques. Food Research 3(2): 16-173. [accessed November 18, 2018]
- Choudhary, Anil K., and Vinod K. Suri. 2018. System of rice intensification in short duration rice hybrids under varying bio-physical regimes: New opportunities to enhance rice productivity and rural livelihoods in North-Western Himalayas under a participatory-mode technology transfer program. Journal of Plant Nutrition (online first November 11, 2018) doi:10.1080/01904167.2018.1510515 [accessed November 15, 2018]
- Arif, Chusnul. 2010. Optimizing water management in System of Rice Intensification paddy fields by field montitoring technology. PhD dissertation, University of Tokyo. [accessed November 15, 2018]
- Fathurrahman, Akmal. 2018. Motivasi petani muda dalam penerapan teknik budidaya padi sawah secara organik dengan metode System of Rice Intensification (Studi kasus di Kelompok Tani Mekar Sari IV, Desa Ciapus, Kecamatan Banjaran, Kabupaten Bandung, Jawa Barat). Agricore 3:1 [accessed November 10, 2018]
New Links to Publications (pdfs, books, etc.) - November 2018
- SRI-LMB Leaflets: Thailand (in English); Thailand (in Thai); Cambodia (In English); Vietnam (in English); Lao (in English); Lao (in Lao); Impact Flyer (in English); SRI-LMB brochure (in English); SRI-LMB brochure (in Thai) [accessed November 30, 2018]
Documents Uploaded and New Pages Created/Updated on our Website - November 2018
- [Web pages updated during November: October additions, events, journal articles, India journal articles, resource updates, seminars, Spanish docs, theses, videos, Bangladesh, Cambodia, DPR Korea, DR, Indonesia, Iraq, Laos, Mali, Philippines, Thailand, Vietnam.]
- Guzmán Familia, Miguel, and Jimmy R. Serrata Núñez. 2018. Evaluación de dos sistemas de producción: Sistema Intensivo del Cultivo de Arroz (Oryza sativa L.) y Convencional en Ranchito, La Vega. Ingeniero Agrónomo (Agricultural Engineer) thesis. Universidad Autónoma de Santo Domingo (UASD) (Dominican Republic). 86 p. [uploaded November 30, 2018]
- 2018. Flyer for Debdutt Behura seminar on November 13, 2018. SRI-Rice website. [posted November 8, 2018]
- Fisher, Lucy. 2018. October additions to the SRI-Rice website. SRI-Rice website.
Videos/Audio - November 2018
- Video: 2018 (November 26). Pon Vilaiyum Bhoomi (23/11/2018) மாத்தியோசிச்சேங்க. 3:44 min. dd agriculture channel, YouTube. [ Successful SRI Farmer Story: G. Ravichandran, Villupuram District, Tamil Nadu, India]
- Video: 2018 (November 14). This is SRI (System of Rice Intensification). 3:07 min. Reynaldi Hendriartha channel, YouTube. [Student production about SRI from Brawijaya University.]
Related: Also, see TPT 2018 Kelas U1 - Agroekoteknologi, another student production looking at the differences between paddy production systems. - Video: 2018 (November 6). حلقة جديدةمن البرنامج الزراعي غذاؤنا من ارضنا. 18:17 min. قناه الارشاد الزراعي في العرا channel, YouTube. [Video from a TV news show called "Our Food from our Land". The first 7 minutes of this 18 minute news clip are about rice production, in which Khidhir Abbas Hameed explains about SRI principles of organic inputs, wider spacing, and reduced water use with AWD. The Agriculture Extension and Training Center in Najaf convened the rice farmers using Farmer Field School methods.]
- Video: 2018 (November 1). Pon Vilaiyum Bhoomi ( 01/11/2018) மாத்தியோசிச்சேங்க (SRI (System of Rice Intensification) Cultivation). 4:24 min. dd agriculture channel. (Tamil language video explaining SRI by K.G. Mohana Krishnan, Agriculturalist, Perambakkam Village, Thiruvallur District, Tamil Nadu, India.]
Presentations - November 2018
- Setiawan, Budi Indra. 2018. Water Table Management under SRI. 7 slides. Presentation at the SRI Research Side event at the 5th International Rice Congress, Sands Expo Convention Centre, Singapore. October 16, 2018. [uploaded November 20, 2018]
- Uprety, Rajendra. Febri. 2018. Mechanized Transplanting Opportunities for SRI. 10 slides. Presentation at the SRI Research Side event at the 5th International Rice Congress, Sands Expo Convention Centre, Singapore. October 16, 2018. [uploaded November 20, 2018]
- Mishra, Abha. 2018. Innovation and Learning around the System of Rice Intensification in the Lower Mekong Basin. Presentation at the SRI Research Side event at the 5th International Rice Congress, Sands Expo Convention Centre, Singapore. October 16, 2018. [uploaded November 20, 2018]
- Hameed, Khidhir Abbas. Stephen. 2018. Rice Water Management and Reduction in Iraq. 19 slides. Presentation at the SRI Research Side event at the 5th International Rice Congress, Sands Expo Convention Centre, Singapore. October 16, 2018.
- Kumar, R. Mahender. 2018. Rice Systems Comparisons - Agronomic Effects and GHG Emissions. 15 slides. Presentation at the SRI Research Side event at the 5th International Rice Congress, Sands Expo Convention Centre, Singapore. October 16, 2018. Leinau, Stephen. 2018. SRI Weeder Designs for Women. 9 slides. Presentation at the SRI Research Side event at the 5th International Rice Congress, Sands Expo Convention Centre, Singapore. October 16, 2018.
- Husain, A.M. Muazzam. 2018. 1805 - Experience with SRI in Bangladesh through Promotion and Networking. 17 slides. Presentation at the Final Workshop: Sustaining and Enhancing the Momentum for Innovation and Learning around the System of Rice Intensification (SRI) in the Lower Mekong River Basin (SRI-LMB), November 2.
* = System of Crop Intensification (SCI)
