April 2019 - Additions to the SRI-Rice Website
(Links to online material)
• SRI-RICE STATISTICS for April 2019:
SRI-Rice website: 2,790 users (2,864 last month) from 90 countries (79 last month) logged 3,529 sessions (3,610 last month) in which 5,990 pages (6,523 last month) were viewed. [Top ten countries in order of number of users: India (780), USA (443), Philippines (160), Canada (123), Malaysia (123), Tanzania (97), UK (94), Nepal (86), Indonesia (69), Pakistan (38).]
Facebook pages: 1) SRI-Rice: All-time likes 2,538; 2,595 follows. 2) SRI Equipment Innovators Exchange: 327 subscribers, SRI West Africa: 2,048 members, SICA America Latina: 1,119 total likes; 1,138 follows.
YouTube (primary): 2,444 (1,792 last month) new views this month for our 90 uploads. 196 views (58 last month) for our 41 playlists (not including our India YouTube channel). 907 subscribers (14 new). 168,692 all time views of our videos. 89,031 lifetime views of our playlists (2013-2019) [NOTE!: The 8 India playlists from the SRI India video channel are now accessible on the main SRI-Rice video channel].
Twitter: 1,800 followers (7 new this month)
Slideshare: 5,274 (5,793 last month) views new this month; 524 slideshows/posters total uploaded, 239 followers
Research Databases: There are 1,549 items (1,169 journal articles), in our Zotero research database (23 new) (700+ of these appear in the Mendeley SRI Research database, but we are not adding to this anymore). 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 April 2019: 2019 new resources, Ghana, Indonesia, Rep. of Korea, Liberia, Malaysia, Nepal, Pakistan, Panama, Philippines, Tanzania, Vietnam, events, journal articles, India research, March updates, videos, index.
News from past months
In the Press - April 2019
- “Love Liberian Rice” campaign launched
April 29, 2019, Liberian Observer (Liberia) [Also available on AllAfrica site] - UGM dan Pemda NTT terapkan metode SRI tingkatkan produktivitas dan pertanian ramah lingkungan [Indonesia Climate Change Trust Fund (ICCTF) and Universitas Gadjah Mada (UGM) working in Sumba Timur achieved 12 tons/ha on 28 ha area.]
April 23, 2019, Pos Kupang (NTT, Indonesia) - Not all superheros wear capes! [Jyoti’ won as the JD(U) candidate from the reserved seat (Scheduled Caste) of Barachatti in Gaya district, Bihar. Besides motivating them to stand up against violence,she trained women in SRI methods. It was Jyoti’s success in turning vast barren lands into green belts with the SRI technique and other indigenous methods that caught the attention of Chief Minister Nitish Kumar...]
April 15, 2019, Opinion Express Group (Bihar, India) - ‘Poultry growth may flatten without GM corn’ an interview with team from CropLife Pakistan Association [Brief mention of SRI as potential GM alternative?]
April 15, 2019, Business Recorder (Pakistan) - Earth Day 2019 – Growing rice with far less water and chemicals. [Story about SRI and World Neighbors' SRI success there.]
April 13, 2019, Review Nepal (Nepal) - SKK Migas budidaya padi SRI [PT SKK Migas's 16 ha. CSR project on SRI in Sulawesi Tengah]
April 12, 2019, Kailipost.com (Sulawesi Tengah, Indonesia) - Farmers to adopt new rice planting technology - Minister
April 11, 2019, PeaceFM (Ghana) - Kota Belud to spearhead organic rice [SRI program in Kg Tambatuon supported by SRI-Mas, UNDP, UNESCO, Integrated Agricultural Development Area (IADA) Kota Belud and PACOS]
April 11, 2019, Daily Express (Sabah, Malaysia)
- Ibn Chambas promotes rice production technology [Article on the United Nations Secretary General’s Special Representative for West Africa and the Sahel, Dr Mohammed Ibn Chambas, is championing campaign on a new technology, SRI, aimed at improving rice production in the country and the Africa continent.]
April 12, 2019, Ghanaweb (Ghana) - Friday@Noon on Agriculture in Africa – 2018 [West Africa section cites SRI advances]
April 10, 2019, Africa Business (Africa) - Ibn Chambas urges Ghana to end rice imports [The special representative of the United Nations Secretary-General for West Africa and the Sahel has urged Ghana to double up its efforts in becoming self-sufficient in rice production. He highlighted the use of SRI in the news article.] [Article above on Ghanaweb has more SRI emphasis.}
April 10, 2019, Daily Guide Network (Ghana) [Also covered by Modern Ghana.] - Liberia: 5,000 Farmers to benefit seed rice under the Chap Program [CHAP plans to deliver improved seed rice to 5,000 farmers (mainly women) in Bong, Bomi, Lofa, Nimba, Grand Cape Mount, Grand Gedeh, and Montserrado counties in conjunction with the Rice Investment Scheme for Empowerment (RISE), which also promotes SRI]
April 8, 2019, AllAfrica (Liberia) [From Liberian Daily Observer article] - Rice: time to adopt SRI [Article suggests SRI could be beneficial to Pakistan, also reduce virtual water export]
April 4, 2019, Business Recorder (Pakistan) - Major highlights of Janasena election Manifesto [SRI #8 of 28 of Pawan Kalyan's Jana Sena Party's elections manifesto]
April 3, 2019, Xappie (India)
Blog Posts and Website Articles - accessed during April 2019
- Sucahyo, Nurhadi. April 30, 2019. Budidaya padi di Sumba, teknologi dan perubahan iklim. VOA Indonesia. April 30. [Indonesian language article about an SRI program on climate change in Sumba Timur, NTT, Indonesia]
- 2019. The success of implementing a sustainable rice systems development in Tanzania. YenKasa Africa website. April 28. [FAO in partnership with Ministry of Agriculture of Tanzania trained 150 youths on the SRI and life skills in 2017 in Tanzania to tackle the challenges. This FAO project is also being carried out in Benin, Cameroon, Côte d’Ivoire, Guinea Conakry, Kenya, Mali, Nigeria, Senegal and Uganda]
- 2019. SRI Global and Malaysia visits the Philippines. NICE Sustainable Agriculture Network website. April 25. [Visitors from SRI-Rice and SRI-Mas visit the Philippines to check on SRI progress there.]
- Levine, Caryl. 2019. Changing how rice is grown. Fair World Project website. April 22. [from: pp16-17 in For a Better World, Issue 18, Spring/Summer edition]. [Article about Lotus Foods, a rice importer that supports SRI as a women-, water- and climate-smart method]
- Isahak, Anizan. 2019. Upscaling agrobiodiversity-based rice farming systems through the System of Rice Intensification (SRI) in Malaysia. SRI-Mas website, Farming the Future section. April.
- 2019. [Review Buku] Bertani dengan Akal dan Nurani. Artikel Pak Tani website. April 17. [ Book review of Utju Suiatna's Indonesian language book entitled Bertani dengan Akal dan Nurani (Farming with Intellect and Conscience). It has lots of insights from the SRI farmers in Cianjur.]
- 2019. Agroinfobank's SRI section. Agroinfobank website. April 14. [This is a new section on SRI resources on Pakistan's Agroinfobank that reprints numerous SRI articles.]
- Chaudhary, Rajinder. 2019. Power subsidy for farm sector. Economic and Political Weekly 54(12): 7-8. [accessed April 14, 2019]
- Amladi, Divya. 2019. Achieving a just world without poverty. Oxfam website, stories section. April 11. [Oxfam work with Vietnamese govt. on SRI highlighted.]
- Hằng, Kiều. 2019. Thâm canh lúa tiết kiệm nước (Water-saving rice cultivation). Bình Thuận website. April 11. [SRI trials focusing on seed reduction and AWD have shown reduced cost and improved prodcutivity in Bình Thuận province in Vietnam. Provincial Agricultural Extension Center: The Provincial Agricultural Extension Center requests the Department of Agriculture and Rural Development to consider and plan to integrate SRI solutions into programs and projects to expand the scale and focus on sustainable agricultural production. The NGO SNV continues to implement the project, aiming at bringing SRI to a large scale.]
- Nightingale, Darrin. 2019. Project Drawdown: The System of Rice Intensification (SRI), developed on Madagascar in the 1980s, is a holistic approach for sustainable rice cultivation. Darrin Nightingale blog. April 5. [Refers back to the Project Drawdown projections for SRI climate mitigation figures.]
- Leidia, Mary Grace P. 2019. ATI capacitated LFTs on product stewardship and System of Rice Intensification. Agriculture Training Institute (ATI) website. [26 Rice Local Farmer Technicians (LFTs) of Calabarzon (Region IV-A) participated in the “Training Course on SRI and Product Stewardship for LFTs Batch 1” held at City of Springs, Los Baños, Laguna, Philippines, April 1 to 5, 2019.]
- Natalie. 2019. Earth Day every day: Grains of wisdom: Sustainable rice cultivation. Chinese Southern Bell blog. April 1.
Latest Research / Journal Articles / Theses - links acquired during April 2019
(in order of acquisition. See also complete alphabetized list of journal articles.)
[Note: • Red dot indicates the publication is freely available.]
- Varma, Poornima. 2019. Adoption and the impact of system of rice intensification on rice yields and household income: an analysis for India. Applied Economics (online first April 25, 2019) doi: 10.1080/00036846.2019.1606408 [accessed April 28, 2019]
- Sasqia, Shafira Laila. 2019. Tinjauan fisiologi berbagai varietas padi dan macam pengairan pada System of Rice Intensification dan konvensional. Thesis. Universitas Muhammadiyah Yogyakarta (Indonesia) [accessed April 22, 2019]
- • Choi, Joongdae, et al. 2019. Greenhouse Gas reduction from paddy by environmentally-friendly intermittent irrigation: A review. 한국습지학회지 Journal of Wetlands Research 21(1): 43-56 [accessed April 19, 2019]
- • Rusman Pita, Paul Ludgerius, et al. 2016. Aplikasi metode SRI (System of Rice Intensification) dan Sistem Tanam Jajar Legowo terhadap iklim mikro yang mempengaruhi productivitas pad beras merah. Jurnal BETA (Biosistem dan Teknik Pertanian) 4(1). [accessed April 14, 2019]
- • Paulus, J. M., and Jein H. Senduk. 2019. Aplikasi beberapa jenis pupuk organik pada pertumbuhan dan produksi padi sawah metode SRI (System of Rice Intensification). EUGENIA 22(3): 134-140.[accessed April 14, 2019]
- Gupta, N., et al. 2019. Performance evaluation of irrigation automation for cultivation System of Rice Intensification (SRI) combined with Jajarlegowo System: Theories, methods, and techniques. International Journal of Engineering and Applied Technology 2(1): 27-36. [accessed April 14, 2019]
- *• Pandey, Shikha, and Parmod Kumar. 2019. Determinants of farm-level adoption of System of Rice and Wheat Intensification in Gaya, Bihar. Working Paper 434, Institute for Social and Economic Change (Bengaluru, India). [accessed April 14, 2019]
- Arsil, P., et al. 2019. The reasons for farmers not to adopt System of Rice Intensification (SRI) as a sustainable agricultural practice: an explorative study. IOP Conference Series: Earth and Environmental Science 250 (conference 1). 6p. [accesses April 8, 2019]
- Tawde, Vilas, and Monalisa Banerjee. 2019. Introduction of SRI technique for paddy growers as a part of CBM-Raniganj Development. Paper presented at the Society of Petroleum Engineers (SPE) Oil and Gas India Conference and Exhibition, 9-11 April, Mumbai, India. doi: 10.2118/194672-MS [accesses April 8, 2019]
- • Shamshiri. Redmond R., et al. 2019. Evaluating system of rice intensification using a modified transplanter: A smart farming solution toward sustainability of paddy fields in Malaysia. International Journal of Agricultural and Biological Engineering 12(2): 54-68. [accessed April 6, 2019]
New Links to Publications (pdfs, books, etc.) and New Websites- April 2019
- Network of SRI Friends (in Myanmar). New facebook group in Burmese with 315 members. Public group (need to join to post).
- SRI-Mas - Malaysian Agroecology Society for Sustainable Resource Intensification - newly revised website from our SRI network colleagues in Malaysia
- SRI-Africa - updated monthly.
Documents Uploaded and New Pages Created/Updated on our Website - April 2019
- [Web pages updated during April: 2019, Ghana, Indonesia, Rep. of Korea, Liberia, Malaysia, Nepal, Pakistan, Panama, Philippines, Tanzania, Vietnam, events, journal articles, India research, March updates, videos, index.]
- Fisher, Lucy. 2019. March additions to the SRI-Rice website. SRI-Rice website.
Videos/Audio - April 2019
- Video: 2019 (March 11). Movie on System of Rice Intensification (SRI). Seven Sister Development Assistance SesTA channel, YouTube. [Video by the NGOs SeSTA and Pradan about a program in Assam, India. Not sure about when this was originally produced.] [accessed April 23, 2019]
- Video: 2019 (April 17). ZIDOFA’s organic SRI rice operation in Panay Philippines. SRI Rice channel, YouTube. [Joby Arandela describes the organic rice processing procedure used by the ZIDOFA group in Panay, Philippines. The rice is grown using System of Rice Intensification (SRI) methods.]
- Video: 2019 (April 2). RBL CSR - System of Rice Intensification (SRI) Project Video. 4:08 min. Dilasa Janvikas Pratishthan channel, YouTube. [Video on CSR project on SRI funded by RBL Bank and implemented by Dilasa Janvikas Pratishthanin in Sindudurg district in Maharashtra, India. 23,000 farmers have been reached with the SRI project.]
Presentations - April 2019
- none this month
* = System of Crop Intensification (SCI)
