October 2018 - Additions to the SRI-Rice Website
(Links to online material)
• SRI-RICE STATISTICS FOR October 2018:
SRI-Rice website: 3,077 users (2,946 last month) from 79 countries (87 last month) logged 4,047 sessions (3,812 last month) in which 7,273 pages (7,856 last month) were viewed. [Top ten user countries in order of sessions: India, USA, Philippines, Indonesia, Malaysia, Malawi, Tanzania, Japan, Nepal, and UK]
Facebook pages: 1) SRI-Rice: All-time likes 2,508; 2,492 follows. 2) SRI Equipment Innovators Exchange: 350 members, SRI West Africa: 2,085 members, SICA America Latina: 1,115 total likes; 1,126 follows.
YouTube (primary): 3,564 (3,102 last month) new views this month for our 89 uploads. 307 views (223 last month) for our 41 playlists (not including our India YouTube channel). 781 subscribers (44 new). 154,445 all time views of our videos. 88,208 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: 1,748 followers (9 new this month)
Slideshare: 9,608 (5,078 last month) views new this month; 493 slideshows/posters total uploaded, 235 followers (1 new)
Research Databases: There are 1,442 items (1,107 journal articles), in our Zotero research database (7 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 October 2018: about us, august additions, events, contact page, home page, staff updates, journal articles, India journals, India news, Ecuador (en and es), Haiti, Indonesia, Mali, Myanmar, Niger, Tanzania, seminars, Spanish docs, theses.
News from past months
In the Press - October 2018
- Nearly, 84 villages adopt SRI cultivation method in Tiruchy
October 31, 2018, DT Next (Tamil Nadu, India) - Samba paddy cultivation picks up [41,760 ha of SRI sown in Tiruvarur district, Tamil Nadu, for samba season.]
October 26, 2018, The Hindu (Tamil Nadu, India) - Thai among UN farming award winners [North Korean among winners of the Model Farmer Awards from the United Nations' Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) for work on SRI. Kim Ri Hwa won for new methods at Maejon Cooperative Farm, including SRI.]
October 20, 2018, Bangkok Post (Thailand)
- Système de riziculture intensive au Mali peut-il être transformé en «or blanc»? [English version of the article below]
October 19, 2018, BAMADA.net (Mali)
- FEATURE - Can a hungry Mali turn rice technology into "white gold"?
October 9, 2018, Reuters (re: Mali) - 'Sudah ada tanda-tanda hujan di beberapa daerah' (Long dry season might not reduce yields; SRI recommended to reduce water use.]
October 16, 2018, Republika Online (Indonesia) - Japanese Gov’t Rice Grant makes impact in Liberia -Through CHAP [ [The Japanese Rice Grant was funded by the Japanese Government through IFAD and was carried out in collaboration with Liberia's Ministry of Agriculture. Over 5000 direct beneficiaries, with over 60% female were trained in SRI.]
October 11, 2018, GNN Liberia (Liberia) - With the onset of monsoon, samba cultivation picks up in Tiruchi district [The Agriculture department is hoping to promote SRI in at least 75% of the cultivated areas in the district this year. ]
September 23, 2018, The Hindu (Tamil Nadu, India) [Story of Sabarmatee, and SRI icon, as part of a series on Most Powerful Women - 2018]
Blog Posts and Website Articles - accessed during October 2018
- 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.
- 2018. FAO Model Farmers Awards. FAO Asia Pacific website. [See the link for Kim Ri Hwa to see her activities with SRI in North Korea that lead to her winning this award.)
- (Compiled from KCNA). 2018. Premier looks round farms and projects in Pyongyang. Juche 107: 2. June 9. [Premier Pak Pong Ju, member of the Presidium of the Political Bureau of the Central Committee of the Workers’ Party of Korea and vice-chairman of the DPRK State Affairs Commission, inspected the Namsa Cooperative Farm ..and stressed the need to widely introduce the system of rice intensification (SRI) and other high-yield farming methods in the agricultural sector, and improve the quality of buildings and increase the construction speed on the principle of taking responsibility for the safety of the project and guarantee its absolute quality for all eternity.] [accessed October 27, 2018]
- Kedia, Shruti. 2018. In Central India, tribals are tapping technology and innovating to become lakhpati farmers. YourStory website. October 24. [Story about Jharkhand families involved in the Collectives for Integrated Livelihood Initiatives' (CInI) Mission 2020 – Lakhpati Kisan: Smart Villages programme. SRI was one of the main items in their sustainability approach.]
- 2018. Climate leaders: An interview with the co-CEOs of Lotus Foods. New Hope website. October 24. [The first article in a series of profiles focusing on luminaries within the climate action sphere. This is about Lotus Foods, which imports SRI rice.]
- 2018. Just how ''green" can a hotel be? Hotel News Resource website. October 23. [Interview with hotel owner Anthony Wong, who uses SRI as part of his green strategy.]
- 2018. Metode tanam padi System of Rice Intensification (SRI). Kabupaten Buleleng website. October 19. [SRI instructions by Agriculture Dept. on the Buleleng Regency website in Bali, Indonesia.]
- Perroni, Eva. 2018. Abby Maxman believes hunger’s roots lie in inequality and injustice. Food Tank, October. [Interview with Oxfam's new leader includes SRI mention.]
- Schulte, RPO. 2018. WRU helps design uniquely productive complex rice system in Indonesia. Wageningen University and Research website. October 4. [SRI methods mixed with duck, fish and azolla provides higher yield and more stable.]
- 2018. Phân bón cho lúa theo phương pháp canh tác lúa cải tiến (Fertilizer for rice under the method of improved rice cultivation). AgriVietnam.com. October.
- FAO. 2018. An agro-ecological approach to rice leads to new success. Agreenium website. October 2.
Latest Research / Journal Articles / Theses - links acquired during October 2018
(in order of acquisition. See also complete alphabetized list of journal articles.)
[Note: • Red dot indicates the publication is freely available.]
- Shiguango, Martín Fabricio Grefa. 2014. Comparación agronómico de ocho cultivares de arroz en dos tipos de suelo bajo el mètode SRI. Thesis, Universidad de Guayaquil, Ecuador.
- Khumairoh, Uma, et al. 2018. Complex rice systems to improve rice yield and yield stability in the face of variable weather conditions. Nature (Scientific Reports) 8: 14746
- • Mittal, Shreyansh, et al. 2018. Soil physico-chemical properties under target yield approach based fertilizer recommendations in system of rice intensification (SRI). International Journal of Chemistry Studies 2(2): 1-4.
- • AR, Arman Effendi, et al. 2017. Effects of ditch distance in rice fields on the growth and production of rice (Oryza sativa L.). Pakistan Journal of Nutrition 16(8): 638-644. doi:10.3923/pjn.2017.638.644 [accessed October 6, 2018]
- Kirar, Shiv Singh, et al. 2017. A comparative study of yields of traditional and SRI methods of paddy cultivation. Interaction 34(2): 79-82 [accessed October 2018]
- • Verma, Divyansh, and Thomas Abraham. 2018. Evaluation of system of planting with different foliar application of liquid organic formulation under organic rice [Oryza sativa (L.)] production. International Journal of Current Microbiology and Applied Sciences 7(8): 3278-3283. doi:10.20546/ijcmas.2018.708.349 [accessed October 3, 2018]
New Links to Publications (pdfs, books, etc.) - October 2018
- Dema, Karma, Ngawang Chojey, and Pema Chophel. 2018. System of Rice Intensification for Organic Rice Production- An experience of Samdrup Jongkhar Initiative. Samdrup Jongkhar Initiative website. October.
Documents Uploaded and New Pages Created/Updated on our Website - October 2018
- [Websites updated during October:]
- Fisher, Lucy. 2018. SRI Research Network page. (A new page on the SRI-Rice website)
- Mara, Hillary, Nina Lin, and Sean Finnerty. 2018. Instructions for using the SRI Research Network library on Zotero. SRI-Rice website. October 6.
- [SRI-Rice website pages updated during October 2018: about us, September additions, New Research Network page, events, home page, staff updates, journal articles, India journals, India news, Bhutan, Indonesia, Myanmar, theses]
- Fisher, Lucy. 2018. September additions to the SRI-Rice website. SRI-Rice website.
Videos/Audio - October 2018
- Video: 2018 (October 29). Successful Farmers in Aceh Jaya. 27:20 min. IDEP Foundation channel, YouTube. [This film is about how NGO CCR works with communities in Aceh Jaya Regency, Aceh Province. It highlights the extension of SRI in which farmers can continue to save on cost, increase revenue as well as play an active role in reducing greenhouse gas emissions caused by burning straw and using pesticides. Also, communities will better understand disaster risk reduction and be more resilient in protecting themselves after the trainings received from Caritas Czech Republic.]
- Video: 2018 (October 25). Agricultural Technology: Water Management in SRI Method of Rice Cultivation. 6:36 min. dd agriculture channel, YouTube. [Tamil language video by Dr. R. Jegathambal, Professor, Seed Science & Technology Rice Research Station, Tirur, Thiruvallur District, India.]
Presentations - October 2018
- Mati, Bancy. 2018. System of Rice Intensification in Kenya: Lessons Learnt for Upscaling SRI in Africa. 33 slides. Presentation at the Workshop to Enhance Cooperation and Sharing among SRI National Networks in Asia. The Leverage Business Hotel. Skudai, Malaysia. October 18-19. Jomo Kenyatta University of Agriculture & Technology (JKUAT) website.
- Moreira, Diddier, et al. 2018. 1815 - Validating and Contextualizing SRI in Latin America and the Caribbean. Presentation at the 5th International Rice Congress, Sands Expo Convention Centre, Singapore. October 15, 2018.
- Fisher, Lucy. 2018. 1806 - 1806 - System of Rice Intensification Research: What's New and What's On the Horizon? Presentation at the SRI Research Side event at the 5th International Rice Congress, Sands Expo Convention Centre, Singapore. October 16, 2018.
- Doni, Febri. 2018. Physiological Effects and Transcriptomic Profiling of Rice Plant - Microbe Interactions in System of Rice Intensification (SRI) Management. Presentation at the SRI Research Side event at the 5th International Rice Congress, Sands Expo Convention Centre, Singapore. October 16, 2018.
- Thakur, Amod. 2018. Phenotypic Changes for Improving Crop Physiology under SRI. Presentation at the SRI Research Side event at the 5th International Rice Congress, Sands Expo Convention Centre, Singapore. October 16, 2018.
- Phu, Hoang Van. Effects of SRI in Limiting Negative Impacts of Adverse Weather Conditions. Presentation at the SRI Research Side event at the 5th International Rice Congress, Sands Expo Convention Centre, Singapore. October 16, 2018.
* = System of Crop Intensification (SCI)
