September 2018 - Additions to the SRI-Rice Website
(Links to online material)
• SRI-RICE STATISTICS FOR September 2018:
SRI-Rice website: 2,946 users (3,698 last month) from 87 countries (86 last month) logged 3,812 sessions (4,555 last month) in which 7,856 pages (6,808 last month) were viewed. [Top ten user countries in order of sessions: India, USA, Philippines, Tanzania, Australia, Indonesia, Malaysia, Thailand, Nepal, and UK]
Facebook pages: 1) SRI-Rice: All-time likes 2,504; 2,486 follows. 2) SRI Equipment Innovators Exchange: 350 members (2 new), SRI West Africa: 2,097 members, SICA America Latina: 1,114 total likes; 1,125 follows.
YouTube (primary): 3,102 (3,791 last month) new views this month for our 89 uploads. 223 views (205 last month) for our 41 playlists (not including our India YouTube channel). 736 subscribers (34 new). 149,727 all time views of our videos. 87,838 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: 1,739 followers (4 new this month)
Slideshare: 5,078 (6,112 last month) views new this month; 491 slideshows/posters total uploaded, 234 followers (1 new)
Research Databases: There are 1,435 items (1,101 journal articles), in our Zotero research database (20 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 September 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 - September 2018
- Diversified farming [Story of Sabarmatee, and SRI icon, as part of a series on Most Powerful Women - 2018]
September 23, 2018, Business Today (Odisha / New Delhi, India) - Pemprov Kalsel catat Rekor Muri lagi [South Kalimantan students set a world record by simultaneously planting (SRI) rice.]
September 23, 2018, Kabar Kalimantan, (South Kalimantan, Indonesia) - 5.000 Siswa Kalsel pecahkan rekor muri menanam padi terbanyak di Indonesia [5,000 students in South Kalimantan province will attempt to set a world record by simultaneously planting rice.. and it will SRI!]
September 22, 2018, Tribun Batola (Kalimantan, Selatan, Indonesia) - INIA reorienta el cultivo de arroz en Chile hacia la sustentabilidad [Article about Chilean Govt. program INIA's trials with SRI to address water use, climate change and environmental protection]
September 20, 2018, El Heraldo (Chile) - Dry spell likely to hit paddy yield by 25% [Dry spell affecting paddy; bulk of paddy in the state is grown by traditional methods despite efforts by the government to popularize the SRI]
September 19, 2018, Navhind Times (Goa, India) - Cerita foto: Padi SRI Organik, hentikan kutukan gagal panen
September 13, 2018 SindoNews.com (Sulawesi Selatan, Indonesia) - ‘They will change if they see the change’
September 6, 2018, Frontier Myanmar (Myanmar)
Blog Posts and Website Articles - accessed during September 2018
- Fxb India Suraksha. 2018. ‘System of Rice Intensification’ (SRI). fxbindiasuraksha blog. September 14. [The NGO Fxb India Suraksha, with support from HDFC Parivartan (CSR wing), had begun SRI promotion in 3 villages of Kamrup, Assam, with 65 farmers on 31.5 acres. The first yield was 30% over the usual productivity.]
- Diario El Centro. 2018. Iniciativa busca el cultivo de arroz “sustentable”. El Centro website. September 17. [INIA's Karla Cordero talk about trials with SRI to reduce chemicals and water use in Chile.]
- FAO. 2018. Morogoro's best farmer. FAO website. September. [Story of a model SRI farmers in Tanzania.] [See also French version: Le meilleur agriculteur de Morogoro]
- 2018. We're following our winners and encouraging their success. Here are some updates from our 2018 winners. Keeling Curve Prize website. September 10. [Included in the winner updates is what SRI-Rice is doing with the prize money.]
- 2018. Reducing food insecurity in Haiti: Oxfam Livelihoods. The Borgen Project. September 6. [Oxfam evaluation shows insights for SRI extension in Artibonite Valley, Haiti.]
- 2018. Système de Riziculture Intensive (SRI) - septembre 16 - septembre 21 . Agroforma website. September 4. [Announcement of a five-day workshop in Niono, Mali.]
- Maftukhah, Rizki. 2018. Kuliah tamu dosen Teknik Pertanian dan Biosistem di Universitas Kristen Artha Wacana Kupang. Agricultural and Biosystems Engineering Department, Universitas Gadjah Mada website. September.
Latest Research / Journal Articles / Theses - links acquired during September 2018
(in order of acquisition. See also complete alphabetized list of journal articles.)
[Note: • Red dot indicates the publication is freely available.]
- • Mboyerwa, Primitiva Andrea. 2018. Potentials of system of rice intensification (SRI) in climate change adaptation and mitigation. A review. International Journal of Agricultural Policy and Research 6(9): 160-168. doi:10.15739/IJAPR.18.018 [accessed September 20, 2018]
- • Babu, Suresh Chandra, and C. Jayachandran. 2017. Role of knowledge inequality and social entrepreneurship in agricultural transformation: Case of rural South India. International Journal of Business & Applied Sciences 6:(1): 15 [accessed September 20, 2018]
- • Suprianto, Suprianto et al. 2018. Penerapan teknologi budidaya padi sawah metode System Of Rice Intensification (SRI) hubunganya dengan produktifitas di Desa Maluka Baulin Kecamatan Kurau Kabupaten Tanah Laut (The technology application on rice cultivation with System of Rice Intensification (SRI) method and its relation to rice productivity in Maluka Baulin Village Kurau Sub-District Tanah Laut Regency]. Frontier Agribisnis 2(1): 54-59. [accessed September 20, 2018]
- • López, Cristian Valdivieso, and Vera Montenegro. 2018. Tiempo do trasplante en la productividad del cultivo de arroz, Oryza sativa INIAP-11. Revista ESPAMCIENCIA 9(1): 7-12. [accessed September 15, 2018]
- • Rozen, Nalwida. 2018. Response of two rice varieties grown using SRI method in two different locations. JERAMI Indonesian Journal of Crop Sciences 1(1), 39-45. [accessed September 4, 2018]
- • Mamondo, Marianne Reynelda, and Delcen Sopani. 2017. Analisis risiko usahatani padi sawah metode System of Rice Intensification (SRI) dan tanam benih langsung (Tabela) di Desa Tonusu Kecamatan Pamona Puselemba (Risk analysis of rice field farming between methods of System of Rice Intensification (SRI) and direct seed planting (Tabela) at Tonusu Village Pamona Puselemba District). Jurnal ENVIRA 2(1): 28-24. doi: 10.31227/osf.io/dkg6b [accessed September 4, 2018]
- • Effendi, Arman, Aswaldi Anwar, and Reni Mayern. 2018. The effects of planting range and weed management on growth and yield of rice (Oryza sativa L.) using modified SRI (The System of Rice Intensification). International Journal on Advanced Science, Engineering and Information Technology 8(1): 272-279. doi:10.18517/ijaseit.8.1.2159 [accessed September 4, 2018]
New Links to Publications (pdfs, books, etc.) - September 2018
- none this month
Documents Uploaded and New Pages Created/Updated on our Website - September 2018
- [SRI-Rice website pages updated during September 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]
- Fisher, Lucy. 2018. August additions to the SRI-Rice website. SRI-Rice website.
Videos/Audio - September 2018
- Video: 2018 (September 26). KADIS Pertanian Pimpin Panen Padi Kelompok Tani Hidayah. 2:10 min. JambiTV channel, YouTube. [Indonesian language; TV clip about harvest of pricing of organic SRI in Jambi, Indonesia]
- Video: 2018 (September 18). SRI Padi. 1:15 min. Rupasi Purulia channel, YouTube.
Presentations - September 2018
- none this month
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