February 2019 - Additions to the SRI-Rice Website
(Links to online material)
• SRI-RICE STATISTICS for February 2019:
SRI-Rice website: 2,988 users (3,481 last month) from 85 countries (80 last month) logged 3,664 sessions (4,221 last month) in which 6,282 pages (7,103 last month) were viewed. [Top ten countries in order of number of users: India (855), USA (485), Philippines, UK, Tanzania, Malaysia, Indonesia, Nepal, Australia, Myanmar.]
Facebook pages: 1) SRI-Rice: All-time likes 2,529; 2,513 follows. 2) SRI Equipment Innovators Exchange: 326 (326 last month as facebook is purging non-active members), SRI West Africa: 2,045 members, SICA America Latina: 1,118 total likes; 1,130 follows.
YouTube (primary): 1,910 (2,764 last month) new views this month for our 89 uploads. 165 views (304 last month) for our 41 playlists (not including our India YouTube channel). 864 subscribers (24 new). 164,270 all time views of our videos. 89,018 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: 1,779 followers (10 new this month)
Slideshare: 6,989 (9,089 last month) views new this month; 520 slideshows/posters total uploaded, 238 followers
Research Databases: There are 1,519 items (1,151 journal articles), in our Zotero research database (14 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 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 February 2019: 2018, 2019, events, home page, journal articles, India journal articles, India news, month index, 2019 staff news, 2018 staff news, other crops, videos, Ghana, Indonesia, Iraq, Kenya, Malaysia, Myanmar, Philippines
News from past months
In the Press - February 2019
- On farm trial on System of Rice Intensification (SRI) under Wokha, District [SRI instructions by Senior Scientist & Head (i/c) KVK (ICAR), Kiphire, Nagaland]
February 28, 2019, The Morung Express (Nagaland, India) - Minoru-Keiwa Myanmar donate rice transplanting, seed cleaning machines to DAR [Minister of Ag present at trial of new transplanting machine with SRI methods.]
February 17, 2019, The Global New Light of Myanmar (Myanmar) - Cheaper technology for paddy cultivation [Startup India Punjab Yatra winners include Dhaiya Agricultural Tools entry with plan to produce SRI transplanter]
February 9, 2019, The Tribune India (Punjab, India)
- Bumper harvest at last for rice outgrowers
February 6, 2019, Standard Digital (Kenya) [Similar article below] - Kenya's Kano rice farmers reap from new technology [Farmers in Nyando, Kisumu County, increase yields with SRI, but have trouble with markets.]
February 4, 2019, Standard Digital (Kenya) - For Climate-Smart Agriculture to succeed, need to take into account social dynamics [A study in Telangana found that unequal ownership of land and the social position of farmers strongly regulated their ability to sustain the use SRI.]
Feburary 1, 2019, The Wire (Telangana, India)
Blog Posts and Website Articles - accessed during February 2019
- Bollier, David. 2019. Multilateralism and the Commons. Resilience website. February 27. [David Bollier's speech (and video) that included mention of the SRI community functioning as an online commons were presented at the UN panel entitled The Multilateral System in the Public Eye: The Impact of Mass Communications.] See also original post on Davide Bollier's blog on Feb. 26]
- McIntyre, Spencer. 2019. Local Farmers, Local Food: A gathering of passionate natural farming advocates in Malaysia. Slow Food website. February 21, 2019. [First Local Farmers, Local Food (LFLF) meeting in Malaysia held at Sri Lovely, an organic SRI farm in Kedah, Malaysia.]
- 2019. New rice farming method adapts to water scarcity. Storm Water Solutions website. February 21. [Synopsis of the recent NPR radio clip on SRI in Nepal.]
- Pant, Laxmi. How to fight climate change in agriculture while protecting jobs. The Conversation website. February 14. [Article cites SRI as example of overlap of sustainable agriculture and agroecology]
- Agrimag. 2019. A miracle method to produce sustainable rice and bigger harvest. Agrimag. (Philippines agriculture monthly magazine entry based on recent Guardian article by John Vidal.) [accessed February 11, 2019]
- 2019. SRI, SCI, System of rice/crop intensification, anyone using it? Permies.com website (market garden forum). February 1. [Permaculture discussion forum wonders about the merits of SRI/SCI after NPR broadcast.]
- CWARice. 2019. Short training course on System of Rice Intensification (SRI). CWARice website. [Announcement for a 3-day training in May or June for Central and West Asia sponsored by the CWARice Center.] [New Rice Farming Method Adapts to Water Scarcity] [accessed February 1, 2019]
Latest Research / Journal Articles / Theses - links acquired during February 2019
(in order of acquisition. See also complete alphabetized list of journal articles.)
[Note: • Red dot indicates the publication is freely available.]
- • Mandal, K.G., et al. 2019. Current rice farming, water resources and understanding micro-irrigation for rice. Current Science 116(4): 568-576. [accessed February 28, 2019]
- • Maryono. 2018. Indeks keberlanjutan usahatani padi di Tasikmalaya. Jurnal Agribisnis Indonesia 6(2): 109-120. doi:10.29244/jai.2018.6.2.109-120 [accessed February 28, 2019]
- • Nisha, Fitriani Nurhayatin. 2018. Pengembangan model denitrification decomposition (DNDC) untuk pendugaan emisi gas metana (CH4) dari lahan padi sawah. Jurnal Teknik Sipil dan Lingkungan 3(2): 1-11. [accessed February 26, 2019]
- Hussain, Ashaq. 2019 Yield and physiological response of newly released rice (Oryza sativa) varieties to crop establishment methods under temperate conditions of Kashmir. Indian Journal of Agronomy 63(4): 441-446. [accessed February 26, 2019]
- Kharim, Muhammad Nurfaiz Abd, et al. 2019. Preliminary study of variable rate application – organic liquid fertilizer by using SPAD chlorophyll meter on System of Rice Intensification (SRI) cultivation. Communications in Soil Science and Plant Analysis (online first Feb. 19, 2019). doi: 10.1080/00103624.2019.1576717 c
- • Azmi, Kahirul, and Chusnul Arif. 2018. Analisis sensitivitas emisi gas metana (CH4) pada sawah dengan metode korelasi rank spearman. Jurnal Teknik Sipil dan Lingkungan 3(1): 10-22. [accessed February 13, 2019]
- • Lesdiana, Firda, et al. 2019. Technology adaptation to climate change in level producers rice in West Java. 3BIO: Journal of Biological Science, Technology and Management 1(1): 22-26. [accessed February 13, 2019]
- • Potkile, S.N. 2018. Influence of planting methods and varieties on yield and economics of paddy. International Journal of Pure & Applied Bioscience 6(6):202-206. doi:10.18782/2320-7051.6668 [accessed February 8, 2019]
- • Rahmat, Arif. 2019. Greenhouse gas estimation in various water management using Denitrification-Decomposition Model (DNDC). Jurnal Irigasi 13(1): 11-20. doi: 10.31028/ji.v13.i1.11-20 [accessed February 7, 2019]
- • Shukla, U. N., et al. 2015. Effect of seedlings age, cultivars and weed management on weed dynamics, nutrient removal and yield of rice (Oryza sativa) under system of rice intensification (SRI). Indian Journal of Agricultural Sciences 85(10): 1260-1268. [accessed February 7, 2019]
- Shahane, Amit Anil, et al. 2019. Improving water and nutrient use efficiency in rice by changing crop establishment methods, application of microbial Inoculations, and Zn fertilization. Global Challenges (online first 06 February 2019) doi:10.1002/gch2.201800005 [accessed February 1, 2019]
- • Syafrullah, Syafrullah. 2018. Pemanfaatan batubara dan sumber daya lokal pedesaan sebagai pupuk batubara plus dan penagarunya terhadap pertumbuhan dan produksi tanaman padi System of Rice Intensification (SRI) di lahan pasang surut. Klorofil 13(2): 71-77. [accessed February 1, 2019]
- • Hassan, Izzudin. 2018. Inventarisasi hama pada beberapa varietas unggul padi di lahan dengan pengairan SRI (System of Rice Intensification) dan Konvensional. Thesis, Universitas Muhammadiyah Yogyakarta, Indonesia). 61 p. [accessed February 1, 2019]
New Links to Publications (pdfs, books, etc.) and New Websites- February 2019
- SRI-Africa - created in 2018, updated in 2019.
Documents Uploaded and New Pages Created/Updated on our Website - February 2019
- [Web pages updated during February: 2018, 2019, events, home page, journal articles, India journal articles, India news, month index, 2019 staff news, 2018 staff news, other crops, videos, Ghana, Indonesia, Iraq, Kenya, Malaysia, Myanmar, Philippines.]
- Fisher, Lucy. 2018. January additions to the SRI-Rice website. SRI-Rice website.
Videos/Audio - February 2019
- Video: 2019 (February 22). (4th meeting) 2019 IPU Parliamentary Hearing. [SRI section between 11:50 through 16:40]. UN Web TV website. [David Bollier's speech that included mention of the SRI community functioning as an online commons were presented at the UN panel entitled The Multilateral System in the Public Eye: The Impact of Mass Communications.] See also post on Davide Bollier's blog on Feb. 26]
- Video: 2019 (February 20). Thirsty Rice. 8:11 min. Chan S. Nara channel, YouTube. [Farmers in Traing district, Takeo province, Cambodia talking about drought and also there SRI experiences.]
- Video: 2019 (January). This Sustainable way of growing rice produces bumper harvests. 1:26 min. World Economic Forum, LinkedIn. [Short video shown at the World Economic Forum 2019 World Economic Forum Annual Meeting held Jan 22-25, 2019, in Davos, Switzerland
- Video: 2018 (November 19). SRI LMB Project Closer (Longer Version). 11:09 min. SRI LMB channel, YouTube. [Video for the final workshop of the AIT-led project entitled Sustaining and Enhancing the Momentum for Innovation and Learning around the System of Rice Intensification (SRI) in the Lower Mekong River Basin.]
Presentations - February 2019
- ProNet 21. 2019. Photos of SRI Activity in Laos. 15 slides. SRI-Rice slideshare channel. [SRI Promotion Project with JICA assistance that ran from 2006 to 2018] [accessed February, 2019]
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