August 2019 - Additions to the SRI-Rice Website
(Links to online material)
• SRI-RICE STATISTICS for August 2019:
SRI-Rice website: 2,391 users (2,430 last month) from 79 countries (73 last month) logged 2,944 sessions (2,956 last month) in which 4,797 pages (4,680 last month) were viewed. [Top ten countries in order of number of users: India (903), USA (263), Philippines (134), Tanzania (80), Australia (72), Nepal (60), Malaysia (54), Japan (42), UK (38), Indonesia (33)
Facebook pages: 1) SRI-Rice: All-time likes 2,548; 2,606 follows. 2) SRI Equipment Innovators Exchange: 328 subscribers, SRI West Africa: 2,075 members, SICA America Latina: 1,145 total likes; 1,163 follows. Newsletter: 272 views.
YouTube (primary): 2,325 (3,618 last month) new views this month for our 90 uploads. 152 views (226 last month) for our 41 playlists (not including our India YouTube channel). 1,032 subscribers (17 new). 183,084 all time views of our videos. 90,172 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: 1,809 followers
Slideshare: 6,484 (7,492 last month) views new this month; 527 slideshows/posters total uploaded, 240 followers
Research Databases: There are 1,614 items (1,207 journal articles), in our Zotero research database (19 new) (700+ of these appear in the Mendeley SRI Research database, but we are not adding to this anymore).
• 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 August 2019: 2019, Bangladesh, Benin, Cambodia, Colombia (en and sp), Costa Rica (en and es), DPR Korea, Kenya, Panama (en and sp), Venezuela (en and sp), Kenya, Liberia, Madagascar, Malaysia, Mali, Nepal, contact us, journal articles, India research, India news, India videos, index, events, research network page, Spanish page, videos.
News from past months
In the Press - August 2019
- Nuevo esquema de cultivo arrocero reduce en 30% uso del agua [Water use reduced with SRI in Costa Rica.]
August 29, 2019, La Nación (Costa Rica) - BBWS Pemali Juana galakkan metode SRI ke petani [Pemali Juana River Basin Center (BBWS) promotes SRI as per Dept. of Public Works request to improve irrigation water efficiency. Harvest festival included lots of govt. officials.]
August 28, 2019, Suara Merdeka (Jawa Tengah, Indonesia) - Tanuri senang meski kemarau metode SRI berhasil tingkatkan hasil panennya mencapai 9 ton [SRI yields in Central Java town reach 9 tons in the dry season.]
August 27, 2019, Tribun Jateng (Jawa Tengah, Indonesia) - Gunakan metode SRI, hasil panen ini melebihi cara konvesional [SRI harvest in Wonoyoso Village in Central Java increases fro 6.9 to 9 ton/ha and price increases from 35,880,000 Rp/ha to 46,000,000 Rp/ha]
August 27, 2019 SindoNews (Central Java, Indonesia) [See similar article in Tribun Jateng] - Samba cultivation set to expand in Karur [Samba paddy to be grown on about 33,250 acres in Karur district; almost all fields in the areas would be brought under SRI.]
August 27, 2019, The Hindu (Tamil Nadu, India) - Kolaborasi untuk hadang kemarau panjang [SRI one of the recommendations by Ag. Dept. for addressing long dry season in Kediri Regency.]
August 25, 2019, Radar Kediri (East Java, Indonesia) - Use certified quality seeds for good yield, farmers told [SRI suggested to for higher yield and water management.]
August 16, 2019, Times of India (India) - Gambian farmers schooled on SRI techniques [Gambia Commercial Agriculture and Value Chain Management Project (GCAV), in partnership with Department of Agriculture (DoA), conducted SRI training with 60 farmers in Central River Region (CRR) from July 20-23, 2019.]
July 26, 2019, Mansa Banko Online (The Gambia) [accessed August 15, 2019] - নের অধিক ফলন পেতে ব্যবহার করুন এসআরআই পদ্ধতি
[Use SRI method to get higher rice yields]
August 5, 2019, Adhunik Krishi Khamar (Bangladesh) - Bomi, Cape Mount farmers adopt SRI
August 5, 2019, Daily Observer (Liberia)
Blog Posts and Website Articles - accessed during August 2019
- Witkowski, Kelly. 2019. System promoted by IICA improves the productivity and adaptation of rice to climate change. Inter-American Institute for Cooperation on Agriculture (IICA) website. [Costa Rica farmers finds success with SRI.] [accessed August 20, 2019]
- 2019. بازدید میدانی سایت الگویی کشت برنج به روش در روستای وازیک محمودآباد با حضور کارشناسان مرکز هراز انجام شد. SRI rice field site visit Vazik village of Mahmoudabad was attended by experts of Haraz Center. Ministry of Agriculture - Jahad - AREEO website (Iran).
- 2019. #WhySRI - Dr Ravi Chopra tells us his story. INSPIRE blog. May 16. [accessed August 25, 2019]
- 2019. #WhySRI - The village of Gacherigaon. INSPIRE blog. August 20. [Village in Odisha forest dweller village adopts SRI.]
- Dey, Partha. 2019. Conservation of water through sustainable practices: You can try. Association for India's Development website. August. [Some suggestions from West Bengal state for sustainability and water conservation; SRI is the first suggestion.]
- 2019?. Innovative enterprise: ‘Greening’ agriculture and boosting farmers’ livelihoods. Bioneers website. [Panel at the Bioneers Conference in 2018. Ken Lee makes the case for SRI.] [accessed August 22, 2019]
- Hufstader, Chris. 2019. Clean water for farmer families. Oxfam website. August 20. [Story of how farmers in Pursat province improved their lives with SRI and water purification in a program by Oxfam and partner Srer Khmer.]
- 2019. Rice planting 2019. BlinkNow website. July 21. [Twenty students planted 22 organic rice paddies with SRI methods in Kopila, Nepal, spanning 1700 square meters. In those paddies, 5 varieties of rice were planted: 4 localized and 1 hybrid.]
- Oxfam. IPCC Report on Land and Climate. Oxfam website. August 8. [More than 1.5 million smallholder farmers in groups supported by Oxfam’s partners in Cambodia, Sri Lanka and Vietnam have benefited from SRI.]
- Eleogo, R.R. 2019. Ceremonial planting on System of Rice Intensification. Ronda Balita online News. August 2. [Governor Daniel R. Fernando led the government officials and Bulacan farmers in a ceremonial planting on System of Rice Intensification in Brgy. Mataas na Parang, San Ildefonso, Bulacan, on July 29, 2019.]
Latest Research / Journal Articles / Theses - links acquired during August 2019
(in order of acquisition. See also complete alphabetized list of journal articles.)
[Note: • Red dot indicates the publication is freely available.]
- • Shrestha, Jiban, and Subash Subedi.2019. Improving crop productivity through sustainable intensification. South Asian Research Journal of Agriculture and Fisheries 1(1): 8-11. [accessed August 30, 2019]
- Abdulkadir, Tukur Daiyabu, et al. 2019. Operational parameters affecting pneumatic paddy seeds handling using vacuum pressure . Agricultural Engineering International: CIGR Journal 21(2): 59-69.[accessed August 26, 2019]
- Kim, Gun-Yeob, et al. 2013. Evaluation of GHGs emission SRI on the reduction of irrigation requirement and increase rice yield in paddy field. Korea Soil Fertilizer Society Conference 2013.5: 328
- 김건엽, et al. 2012. 논에서 SRI (System of Rice Intensification) 물 관리 방법을 적용한 온실가스 저감 - Mitigation of Greenhouse Gases by water management of SRI (System of Rice Intensification) in rice paddy fields. 과. 한국토양비료학회지 45(6): 1173-1178.
- • Senthilvalavan, P. 2018. Yield, uptake and availability of micro-nutrient cations in rice (Oryza sativa) as influenced by nutrient sources and cultivation methods. Annals of Plant and Soil Research 20(4): 338-34 [accessed August 26, 2019]
- • Astuti, Agung and Mulyono. 2019. Pemberdayaan kwt Desa Kranggan dalam budidaya padi dengan metode S.R.I. untuk pertanian sehat. Warta LPM 21(2): 45-49.
- Suetos, Jemmarie G., and Samuel R. Simon. 2018. Evaluation of different rice varieties under different methods of establishment In Cagayan Province. 7th International Scholars Conference Proceeding, 6(1): 138. [accessed August 23, 2019]
- • Imran, M. S. et al. 2019. The transplanter tools for small paddy fields: System of Rice Intensification (SRI) compliance. IOP Conference Series: Materials Science and Engineering 551: 012014. doi:10.1088/1757-899X/551/1/01201 [accessed August 20, 2019]
- • Karyani, T. et al. 2019. 2019. Organic rice farming for sustainable development in the Nurani Sejahtera Farmers Group. IOP Conference Series: Earth and Environmental Science 306:1-12 [accessed August 12, 2019]
- *• Amiroh, Ana, P. Pudyartono, and Agus Rianto. 2019. Kajian perbanyakan bibit tebu (Saccharum officinarum L.) menggunakan metode penanaman satu mata (Single Bud Planting). AGRITROP 17(1): 10.32528/agritrop.v17i1.2190 [accessed August 10, 2019]
- • Istiqomah, Asti, et al. 2019. Analisis land rent dan daya saing pertanian padi organik di Kabupaten Tasikmalaya. Journal of Agriculture, Resource and Environmental Economics 2(1): 13-25. [accessed August 10, 2019]
- • Mohanty, Ayesha, et al. 2019. Effect of mulching and integrated nutrient management on soil micronutrient status in an inceptisols under coastal agro-ecosystem of Odisha. International Journal of Chemical Studies 7(4): 845-848. [accessed August 10, 2019]
- • Mohanty, Ayesha, et al. 2019. Impact of system of rice intensification (SRI) on the water holding capacity (WHC) of soil and water use efficiency (WUE) in a tropical rainfed agro-ecosystem of Odisha. Journal of Pharmacognosy and Phytochemistry 8(4): 1756-1580. [accessed August 10, 2019]
- Thakur, A, K., K. G. Mandal, and S. Raychaudhuri. 2019. Impact of crop and nutrient management on crop growth and yield, nutrient uptake and content in rice. Paddy and Water Environment (online first August 3, 2019). 1-13p. doi:10.1007/s10333-019-00770-x [accessed August 10, 2019]
- • Rosuli, Mohammad Edi. 2017. Pengambilan keputusan petani dalam penerapan metode SRI (System of Rice Intensification) di Kabupatan Jember. Undergraduate thesis, Universitas Jember, Indonesia. 207p.
- • Abdulkadir, Tukur Daiyabu, et al. 2019. Critical parameters on pneumatic handling of paddy seed by vacuum pressure. CIGR Journal, 21(2): 59–69 [accessed August 4, 2019]
New Links to Publications (pdfs, books, etc.) and New Websites- August 2019
- None this month
Documents Uploaded and New Pages Created/Updated on our Website - August 2019
- [Web pages updated during August: 2019: 2019, Bangladesh, Benin, Cambodia, Colombia (en and sp), Costa Rica (en and es), Kenya, Panama (en and sp), Venezuela (en and sp), Kenya, Liberia, Madagascar, Malaysia, Mali, Nepal, contact us, journal articles, India research, India news, India videos, index, events, research network page, Spanish page, videos.]
- Fisher, Lucy. 2019. July 2019 additions to the SRI-Rice website. SRI-Rice website.
Videos/Audio - August 2019
- Audio: 2019 (August 29). Nuevo esquema de cultivo arrocero reduce en 30% uso del agua. 4:11 min. La Nación. [Water use reduced with SRI in Costa Rica.]
- Video: 2019 (August 27). Pemprov Jateng Panen Padi Hasil terapkan metode SRI di Pekalongan Barat. 2:06 min. Tribun Jateng TV. YouTube. [Pemprov Jateng terapkan metode System of Rice Intensification (SRI) di tiga titik sawah percontohan Pantura Barat.]
- Video: 2019 (August 26). Caso de éxito de SRI en Costa Rica. 4:16 min. IICA channel, Vimeo. [Experience of a Costa Rican farmer who took the IICA online course on SRI and tried out the methods.]
- Video: 2019 (August 24). Mechanized System of Rice Intensification Weeder in Sawah Sempadan Malaysia. 1:57 min. Febri Doni channel, YouTube [Motorized weeder developed in Malaysia]
- Video: 2019 (August 20). Gacherigaon. 3:56 min. SRI4Women channel, Vimeo. [Video on SRI adoption in the tribal area of Odisha, India.]
- Podcast: 2019 (August 19). Business – Feat. Lotus Foods Co-Founders, Carol Levine and Ken Lee. 47:14 min. delighted by website [Interview with Lotus Foods founders that includes SRI supply chains.]
- Video: 2019 (August 19). శ్రీవరి సాగు చేసే పధ్దతి | Sri Vari Sagu Cultivation Tips By Nagaratnam Naidu | hmtv Agri. 10:06 min. hmtv Agri channel, YouTube. [Telugu language tv clip on how to plant rice with SRI methods.]
- Video: 2019 (August 11). Serumpun Padi Sejuta Harapan - SRI Organik | SDP PT Vale Indonesia Tbk. 7:28 min. PT Vale Indonesia Tbk channel, YouTube. [This SRI Organic project, which is a CSR project of PT Vale, has been active in Luwu Timur, Sulawesi Selatan, Indonesia, since 2015, now has 196 farmers 83,9 hektar di 9 kecamatan se-Luwu Timur. This is a rerelease of a 2016 video.]
- Video: 2019 (August 10). Système de Riziculture Intensive - Elevage+ (SRI-E+) « Bien aménager sa parcelle rizicole. 9:56 min. RASCA Prod. channel, YouTube. [(in French) Zio Prefecture, Southern Togo: Agro-pastoralists of UCA-ZIO, ESF, GRAPHE and ESFT improve the management of their rice production with SRI.]
- Video: 2019 (August 10). Système de Riziculture Intensive - Elevage+ (SRI-E+) « Bien élever ses animaux et produire du comp... 11:17 min. RASCA Prod. channel, YouTube. [ [(in French) Zio Prefecture, Southern Togo: Agro-pastoralists of UCA-ZIO, ESF, GRAPHE and ESFT describe their composting methods to reduce chemical use and other management strategies for rice production with SRI.]
- Video: 2019 (August 10). Système de Riziculture Intensive - Elevage+ (SRI-E+) « Bien préparer ses plants de riz ». 10:47 min. RASCA Prod. channel, YouTube. [(in French) Zio Prefecture, Southern Togo: Agro-pastoralists of UCA-ZIO, ESF, GRAPHE and ESFT project use better seed, plant nurseries and transplant rice seedlings. The success of these three activities depends on the quality/quantity of rice for consumption and the quantity of straw produced that can be used for animal feed or compost for rice production.]
- Video: 2019 (May 23). Agriculture is the Solution to Climate Change: We Must Invest in Soil Health. 3:30 min. Regeneration International channel, YouTube [accessed August 2, 2019]
Presentations - August 2019
- Gbenou, Pascal. 2019. Rice cultivation in Africa: How traditional practices relate to modern opportunities. 15 slides. Presentation at the International Rice Development Conference and Seminar on China-Africa Development. Changsha, China, June 26-29. [uploaded August 27, 2019]
- Verma, Ajay. 2014. Development & evaluation of gender friendly rotary paddy weeder. 48 slides. AshutoshPal channel, Slideshare. [accessed August 2, 2019]
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