December 2019 - Additions to the SRI-Rice Website
(Links to online material)
• SRI-RICE STATISTICS for December 2019:
SRI-Rice website: 2,417 users (2,440 last month) from 70 countries (75 last month) logged 2,685 sessions (2,985 last month) in which 4,374 pages (4,492 last month) were viewed. [Top ten countries in order of number of users: India (684), USA (306), Tanzania (149), Philippines (144), Malaysia (83), Nepal (49), Indonesia (47), Japan (43), Nigeria (36), Pakistan (34)]
Facebook pages: 1) SRI-Rice: All-time likes: 2,548; 2,610 follows. 2) SRI Equipment Innovators Exchange: 326 members, SRI West Africa: 2,070 members, SICA America Latina: 1,149 Total likes; 1,167 follows. Newsletter: 268 views.
YouTube (primary): 2,698 (2,747 last month) new views this month for our 90 uploads. 122 views (122 last month) for our 41 playlists (not including our India YouTube channel). 1,112 subscribers (23 new). 190,519 all time views of our videos. 90,591 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: 1,821 followers
Slideshare: 4,251 (7,572 last month) views new this month; 531 slideshows/posters total uploaded, 243 followers
Research Databases: There are 1,668 items (1,240 journal articles), in our Zotero research database (13 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 December 2019: Egypt, Indonesia, Liberia, Panama (+sp), Sierra Leone, South Korea, Tanzania, journal articles, India research, India news, India videos, index, events, Nov. additions, research network page, videos.
News from past months
In the Press - December 2019
- Japan, through FAO, enhances smallholder farmers’ productivity [Under the initiative “Integrated Sustainable Rice System Development in Liberia”, the Government of Japan provided US$500,000 to FAO to support Liberia’s efforts help smallholder rice production, including SRI.]
December 31, 2019, Daily Observer (Liberia) - Pemberdayaan Masyarakat Medco E&P: Mulai dari pakan ternak hingga listrik masuk desa [One of Medco E&P's CSR projects includes organic SRI project in West Java that began in 2016 and has reported increased yields from 2-3 to 6-7 tons/ha.]
December 23, 2019, Silampari Online (West Java, Indonesia) - Ciptakan inovasi pertanian, walikota Padangsidimpuan apresiasi rumah pintar acibu [Govt and academics work together on rice system that includes SRI.]
December 28, 2019, Realitas Online (North Sumatra, Indonesia) - Water for a sustainable future [4th Karachi International Water Conference in Pakistan includes mention of Climate Smart Agriculture roll-out by the FAO and the Govt. of Pakistan, which includes successfully introducing SRI along with flood/drought tolerant rice, DSR, line sowing and raised bed for rice.]
December 28, 2019, Daily Times (Pakistan) - Paddy cultivation in full swing [1,500 hectares are targeted for SRI cultivation in Athoor block. So farm, 800 have been completed. Under the SRI programme of the National Agriculture development Programme, demos have been conducted on 45 acres there]
December 14, 2019, The Hindu (Tamil Nadu, India) - Hiệu quả từ SRI [Story of SRI in northern Thailand.]
December 14, 2019, Saigon Online (Vietnam) - Thai rice farmers shun ‘big agribusiness’, fight climate change [French company's Pur Projet helps farmers in northern Thailand to adopt SRI]
December 12, 2019, The Phnom Penh Post (Cambodia/Thailand) - Joint African project, a game-changer for young rice producers in Moro [Young farmers are benefiting from SRI in the Kilosa District. This is one of the10 countries where FAO is implementing the activities of the Partnership for Sustainable Rice Systems Development in Sub-Saharan Africa.]
December 4, 2019, IPPMedia (Tanzania) - Casting away coal addiction for survival [SRI among proposed responses to climate change in the Philippines.]
December 3, 2019, Philstar Global (Philippines)
Blog Posts and Website Articles - accessed during December 2019
- 2019. Yadadri Farmer Producer Company in Turkapally starts a single-window unit to support farmers. act!onaid website. December 27. [ActionAid Association’s Andhra Pradesh & Telangana Regional Office, together with Pilupu, has been supporting farmers in Yadadri Bhuvanagiri district of Telangana, India, with producer company formation and SRI support.]
- Ratolojanahary, Marius. 2019. Sierra Leone: Boosting rice production is feasible. Shining Global Institute blog. December 22. [Author recommends SRI and incentives to boost rice production.]
- 2019. System of Rice Intensification. PlantVillage website. December. [Good description of organic SRI methods.]
- Sariyatun, SP. 2019. Metode budidaya Padi Sistem Intensifikasi Padi (System of Rice Intensification - SRI). Cyber Extension (CYBEXT) website, Materi Lokalita. December 4. [Indonesian language SRI instruction from Pringapus, Kabupaten Semarang, Central Java.]
- Zevnik, Neil. 2019. How Lotus Foods reduces impact of rice growing on the environment. Better Nutrition Magazine, Healthy Eating Section. December 1. [How Lotus Foods is changing the way this global staple is produced and reducing its impact on the environment, particularly with SRI.]
Latest Research / Journal Articles / Theses - links acquired during December 2019
(in order of acquisition. See also complete alphabetized list of journal articles.)
[Note: • Red dot indicates the publication is freely available.]
- • Haque, Chowdhury Monirul. 2017. Comparative assessment of nitrogen use efficiency in SRI over direct seeded and transplanted rice. M.Sc. thesis, Bidhan Chandra Krishi Viswavidyalaya, West Bengal, India. doi: 10.13140/RG.2.2.35674.08643 [accessed December 31, 2019]
- • Senthilvalavan, P., and M. Ravichandran. 2019. Growth and physiological characters of rice (Oryza sativa) as influenced by integrated nutrient management under SRI in Cauvery Deltaic Zone of Tamil Nadu. Annals of Plant and Soil Research 21(3): 210-216 [accessed December 15, 2019]
- • Lee, Y.H., et al. 2018. On-farm study of the System of Rice Intensification (SRI) of rainfed lowland in Southern Cambodia. Journal of the Korean Society of International Agriculture 30(4): 285-291. doi: 10.12719/KSIA.2018.30.4.285 [accessed December 15, 2019]
- • Didal, Vijay Kumar, et al. 2019. Performance of different nitrogen management practices on nitrogen uptake of rice under different establishment methods. International Journal of Chemical Studies 7(3): 307-311 [accessed December 9, 2019]
- • Sahu, Ravi Ranjan. 2019. The study on rice genotypes suitable under SRI and traditional methods of cultivation. Journal of Pharmacognosy and Phytochemistry 8(1): 1194-1195. [accessed December 5, 2019]
- Siregar, Nadia Itona. 2018. Dinamika kelompok dan jaringan komunikasi dalam penerapan budi daya padi metode System of Rice Intensification di Kabupaten Banyuwangi. Masters thesis. Institut Pertanian Bogor (Indonesia) [accessed December 4, 2019]
- Maulana, M., and H. Tarigan. 2019. Farmers' response to economic benefits of integrated farming. IOP Conference Series: Earth and Environmental Science 372(conf 1): 012002 [accessed December 3, 2019]
- • Herliana, Okti, et al. 2019. Penerapan budidaya padi dengan metode SRI (Sistem of Rice Intensification) di Desa Patemon Kecamatan Bojongsari Kabupaten Purbalingga. Dinamika Journal 1(3): 40-51. [accessed December 3, 2019]
New Links to Publications (pdfs, books, etc.) and New Websites - December 2019
- Setiawan, B.I., and E. Yamaji. 2019. ‘Successful Adaptation Measures for Inland and Coastal Food Security’, in Anbumozhi, V., M. Breiling, and V. Reddy(eds.), Towards a Resilient ASEAN Volume 1: Disasters, Climate Change, and Food Security: Supporting ASEAN Resilience. Jakarta, Indonesia: Economic Research Institute for ASEAN and East Asia, pp. 109-136.
- Raman, A. 2020. Ecological thinking and agricultural sustainability. In: Venkatramanan V., Shah S., Prasad R. (eds) Global Climate Change and Environmental Policy. Springer, Singapore. [Chapter cites SRI as one of several examples of ecological thinking.] [accessed December 3, 2019]
Documents Uploaded and New Pages Created/Updated on our Website - December 2019
- Web pages updated during Dec: 2019, Egypt, Indonesia, Liberia, Panama (+sp), Sierra Leone, South Korea, Tanzania, journal articles, India research, India news, India videos, index, events, research network page, videos.
- Fisher, Lucy. 2019. November 2019 additions to the SRI-Rice website. SRI-Rice website.
Videos/Audio - December 2019
- Video: 2019 (January 27). SRI GPM model in Tan Duc. 6:24 min. ALiSEA Mekong channel, YouTube. [SRI project in Vietnam uses Farmer Field School with funds from ALiSEA’s Small Grant Program, 2017-2018] [uploaded December 2019]
- Video: 2019 (December 2). குறைந்த செலவில் அதிக மகசூல் தரும் "ஒற்றை நாற்று நடவு " | Good yield through SRI. 10:13 min. SIFI Organic Village Food 7 channel, YouTube. [Vinay from Malavalli taluk, Mandya District grows paddy using SRI in Natural farming method.]
Presentations - December 2019
- 2019. Proyecto IICA - MIDA/ Sistema Intensivo de Arroz (SRI) Evaluación del primer ensayo de validación realizado en coclé para enfrentar al Cambio Climático (alternativa) Localizada en el Sistema de Riego El Caño. DICIEMBRE /2018 - ABRIL/ 2019 - OCTUBRE/ 2019. 44 slide. Presentation on the IICA/MIDA SRI Project in Panama that began in December 2018. [uploaded December 14, 2019]
- Uphoff, Norman. 2019. Agroecological Management of Soil Systems for Food, Water, Climate Resilience, and Biodiversity. 27 slides. Presentation at the Knowledge Dialogue on the Occasion of World Soil Day, United Nations, NY, December 6.
* = System of Crop Intensification (SCI)
