July 2019 - Additions to the SRI-Rice Website
(Links to online material)
• SRI-RICE STATISTICS for July 2019:
SRI-Rice website: 2,430 users (2,310 last month) from 73 countries (73 last month) logged 2,956 sessions (3,019 last month) in which 4,860 pages (5,054 last month) were viewed. [Top ten countries in order of number of users: India (882), USA (295), Philippines (168), Nepal (85), Tanzania (70), Malaysia (57), Indonesia (51), Japan (50), Pakistan (42), Nigeria (48), Belgium (44)
Facebook pages: 1) SRI-Rice: All-time likes 2,543; 2,601 follows. 2) SRI Equipment Innovators Exchange: 327 subscribers, SRI West Africa: 2,070 members, SICA America Latina: 1,133 total likes; 1,151 follows. Newsletter : 214 views.
YouTube (primary): 3,618 (4,874 last month) new views this month for our 90 uploads. 226 views (177 last month) for our 41 playlists (not including our India YouTube channel). 1,017 subscribers (32 new). 180,763 all time views of our videos. 90,020 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: 1,810 followers (4 new this month)
Slideshare: 7,492 (7,482 last month) views new this month; 525 slideshows/posters total uploaded, 240 followers
Research Databases: There are 1,595 items (1,191 journal articles), in our Zotero research database (28 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 July 2019: 2019, Burundi, Cambodia, Côte d’Ivoire, Ethiopia, Ghana, Indonesia, Kenya, Madagascar, Mali, Togo, Vietnam, journal articles, India journal articles, India news, India research, India videos, index, events, research index, research network page, SSI, videos.
News from past months
In the Press - July 2019
- Côte d’Ivoire/ Un projet de riziculture intensive lancé à Man
July 26, 2019, Agence Ivoirienne de Presse (Côte d’Ivoire) - Farmers urged to go for alternative crops [SRI/SSI recommended to bring down water usage.]
July 16, 2019, The Hindu (Andhra Pradesh, India) - Pertamina dorong petani budidayakan padi SRI organik [Pertamina CSR project trains 546 farmer from 7 villages in Blora Regency, Central Java)
July 13, 2019, SindoNews (Central Java, Indonesia) - Coimbatore agri trade fair to focus on taking technology to micro and small farmers
[SRI/SSI could be helped by access to tech at agri trade fair]
July 9, 2019, Times of India (Tamil Nadu, India) - Bagaimana rentetan penelitian menggoyang bangunan sosial mapan
[Farmers' group uses PAR and Farmer Field School with SRI... among other things.]
July 8, 23-19, GeoTimes (Sulawesi Selatan, Indonesia) - PNSADR-IM : Des coopératives pour l’amélioration des conditions de vie des ménages
July 5, 2019, BurundiEco (Burundi) - Groupe de la BAD: Le Président Akinwumi ADESINA est dans nos murs [Strengthening the dissemination and adoption of SRI through training and investment will increase productivity and help fight climate change: ADB president]
July 1, 2019, La Gazette (Madagascar)
Blog Posts and Website Articles - accessed during July 2019
- Gardiner, Oliver. 2019. Japan’s Ministry of Ag acknowledges role of regenerative farming in climate solution. Regenerative International website. July 29. [RI’s international director Andre Leu gave a keynote presentation on SRI at Agriculture Is the Solution to Climate Change” conference in Otsu, Japan, May 13-15, 2019.]
- NABARD. 2019. A one-stop solution for Indian farmers. Outlook India website. [National Bank for Agriculture and Rural Development (NABARD) CSR project introduces SRI in remote Tuensang, Nagaland.]
- 2019. Help us at an Organic rice farm in Kedah, Malaysia. Workaway.info website. [Opportunity to volunteer at an organic SRI farm in Malaysia.]
- Apedoh, Jean. 2019. Le système de riziculture intensive (SRI). ECHO Notes de l'Afrique de l'Ouest Numéro 3. July 22. [Overview of SRI in Togo by long-time SRI promoter, Jean Apedoh]
- SRI4Women. 2019. Heritage and diversity hold many answers for climate change resilience. SRI4women blog. July 22. [Sabarmatee conserving traditional biodiversity in Odisha, India, with world’s biggest collection of indigenous seed varieties, which are grown with SRI methods]
- Dwyer, Augusta. 2019. Growing a green, healthy rice bowl. Landscape News, Global Landscapes Forum website. July 19. [Article about SRI, SRP, and the Sustainable Rice Landscapes Consortium (SRLI) - several paths to encouraging more sustainable rice production.]
- 2019. A Maryland grain grower takes regenerative agriculture to the next step. Civil Eats. July 10. [Story of USA farmer who grows SRI rice]
- Makoye, Kizito. 2019. Reducing water raises rice yields in Tanzania. Climate Smart Solutions section, SPORE Newsletter, CTA website. July 9. [5-year project in Tanzania's Morogoro region, which is run by Sokoine University of Agriculture with support from FAO, has had good success promoting SRI. 3,000+ farmers in Kidugalo village, eastern Morogoro, have adopted SRI.]
- Hufstader, Chris. 2019. Chickens and smart farming bring more money to family in Cambodia. OXFAM website, stories section. July 8. [With SRI, Saren went from 2.7 tons/ha to 3.5 tons and went from being a subsistence rice farmer to someone with a surplus, making money selling 50 percent of her production.]
- 2019. Teknologi budidaya padi dan perubahan iklim. ICCTF website. June 28. [Article about the Indonesia Climate Change Trust Fund project on SRI in Sumba Timur, Indonesia]
- Thansrithong, Boonsong. 2019. Training in SRI (System of Rice Intensification) ขอเชิญเข้าร่วมอบรม “การปลูกข้าวต้นเดียว”. ECHO Community website. July 1. [Announcement for an all-day SRI training on July 12, 2019, at the ECHO Asia Small Farm Resource Center & Seed Bank, Chiang Mai, Thailand]
Latest Research / Journal Articles / Theses - links acquired during July 2019
(in order of acquisition. See also complete alphabetized list of journal articles.)
[Note: • Red dot indicates the publication is freely available.]
- Lalrinpuia, Vangchhia, and Lawmchullova Immanuel. 2018. Towards self-sufficiency in rice: A comparative study of rice cultivation practices in Mizoram. Geographic 13(1): 73-85. [accessed July 27, 2019]
- *• M. Manikandan, et al. 2019. Optimization of irrigation and fertigation scheduling for Sustainable Sugarcane Initiative (SSI) through subsurface drip irrigation in Western Zone of Tamil Nadu. Current Agriculture Research Journal 7(1). doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.12944/CARJ.7.1.14 [accessed July 27, 2019]
- • Ghosh, Ananya, et al. 2019. Comparative study of energy utilization and Green House Gas emission by hybrid rice grown under two different cultivation systems in red lateritic zone of West Bengal. International Journal of Environment and Climate Change 9(6): 356-353. 10.9734/ijecc/2019/v9i630121 [accessed July 7, 2019]
- Shahane, Amit Anil, et al. 2019. Zinc nutrition of rice as influenced by crop establishment methods, rates of nitrogen and phosphorus fertilization and inoculation with microbial consortia. Journal of Plant Nutrition (online first July 1). doi:10.1080/01904167.2019.1636066 [accessed July 6, 2019]
- Yahaya, Iddrisu, et al. 2019. Complementarity of technology adoption and social capital participation: The case of Systems of Rice Intensification in Ghana. Journal of International Development (online first July 1). doi: 10.1002/jid.3420 [accessed July 6, 2019]
- • Rajani Satish, L. 2006. Standardisation of System of rice intensification (SRI) technique. Master's thesis. College of Agriculture, Vellayani, India. [accessed July 1, 2019]
New Links to Publications (pdfs, books, etc.) and New Websites- July 2019
- Inspire cic / Promoting sustainable ag is a section of the Floodedcellar Productions website primarily devoted to SRI videos. [accessed July 12, 2019]
Documents Uploaded and New Pages Created/Updated on our Website - July 2019
- [Web pages updated during July: 2019: 2019, Burundi, Cambodia, Côte d’Ivoire, Ethiopia, Ghana, Indonesia, Kenya, Madagascar, Mali, Togo, Vietnam, journal articles, India journal articles, India news, India research, India videos, index, events, month news index, research index, research network page, SSI, videos.]
- Fisher, Lucy. 2019. June 2019 additions to the SRI-Rice website. SRI-Rice website.
Videos/Audio - July 2019
- Video: 2019 (July 27). இந்த முறையில் கரும்பு நடவு செய்தால் அதிக லாபம் SSI System. Ulavan Tech Channel, YouTube. 7:09 min. [English/Tamil Nadu, India; Sustainable Sugarcane Initiative instructional video with input from GIZ, TNAU, KVK Santhiur, and students - AC & RI, VVNR]
- Video: 2019 (July 19). అధిక దిగుబడిస్తున్న శ్రీ వరి సాగు విధానం,Success Story of Sri Paddy Cultivation | Matti Manishi 10TV. 7:10 min. 10TV News Telugu channel, YouTube. [Telugu language (India) newscast on SRI]
- Video: 2019 (July 14). System of Rice Intensification. Part I, (12:06 min); Part II (land preparation) (9:18 min); Part III, 7:02 min. AP ZBNF channel, Youtube. [Indian language SRI instructional/informational series from East Godavari, Andhra Pradesh, India. Originally published by Digital Green.]
Presentations - July 2019
- Barrett, Christopher, et al. 2019. The Effects of Exposure Intensity on Technology Adoption and Gains: Experimental Evidence from Bangladesh on the System of Rice Intensification. 30 slides. Presentation at the USDA Multi-state Research Project NC-1034 annual research conference on The Economics of Agricultural Technology & Innovation. Atlanta, Georgia, July 21, 2019. SRI-Rice slideshare webpage.
* = System of Crop Intensification (SCI)
