October 2019 - Additions to the SRI-Rice Website
(Links to online material)
• SRI-RICE STATISTICS for October 2019:
SRI-Rice website: 2,275 users (2,235 last month) from 76 countries (75 last month) logged 2,387 sessions (2,789 last month) in which 5,666 pages (4,682 last month) were viewed. [Top ten countries in order of number of users: India (794), USA (289), Philippines (147), Malaysia (76), Indonesia (60), Tanzania (63), UK (51), Nigeria (46), Japan (40), Australia (37)
Facebook pages: 1) SRI-Rice: All-time likes 2,549; 2,610 follows. 2) SRI Equipment Innovators Exchange: 327 members, SRI West Africa: 2,072 members, SICA America Latina: 1,150 total likes; 1,168 follows. Newsletter: 64 views.
YouTube (primary): 2,503 (2,045 last month) new views this month for our 90 uploads. 236 views (247 last month) for our 41 playlists (not including our India YouTube channel). 1,066 subscribers (6 new). 187,631 all time views of our videos. 90,655 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: 1,822 followers
Slideshare: 7,572 (6,422 last month) views new this month; 529 slideshows/posters total uploaded, 241 followers
Research Databases: There are 1,649 items (1,229 journal articles), in our Zotero research database (27 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 October 2019: 2019, Indonesia, Senegal, Tanzania, The Gambia, journal articles, India research, India news, India videos, index, events, SCI, research network page, September additions, latest additions, videos
News from past months
In the Press - October 2019
- *A review: System of crop intensification on field crops
October 31, 2019, Morung Express (Nagaland, India) - Keren, Ada alat pengontrol air irigasi ciptaan mahasiswa UGM [Universitas Gadja Mada students win 2nd place in Agricultural Engineering for Sustainable Agriculture Production (AESAP) Student Design Competition 2019 for a design of an automatic irrigation system for SRI method.]
October 28, 2019, Jogjapolitan (Yogyakarta, Indonesia) - Workers in demand at farm lands [Over 80 per cent of farmers in the delta (Tiruchy) have adopted the SRI. Workers scarce, using more machines.]
October 21, 2019, The New Indian Express (Tamil Nadu, India) - 40 Persen sungai di Bali tak teraliri air, penggunaan air terbesar untuk irigasi [Water shortages in Bali.. SRI could be part of the answer!]
October 19, 2019, Tribun-Bali (Bali, Indonesia) - 13,000 hectares under organic farming in Nagaland [SRI encouraged at World Food Day 2019 celebration in Nagaland.]
October 17, 2019, Morung Express (Nagaland, India) - New rice planting technique can save use of seeds and water [Professor recommends SRI for Punjab...]
October 15, 2019, Times of India (Punjab, India) - Farmers receive rice intensification training
October 15, 2019 The Arunachal Times (Arunachal, India)
- Gloom amid plenty: The story of disillusioned Ahero farmers [Problems faced by rice farmers, including SRI farmers, in Kenya's Ahero irrigation scheme.]
October 12, 2019, Standard Digital (Kenya) -
African rice farmers test traditions against NY climate [Immigrants from The Gambia take up rice farming with SRI in New York State.]
October 9, 2019, Cornell Chronicle (New York, USA) - Campagne agricole 2019-2020 à Ziguinchor : Le niveau de développement des cultures jugé satisfaisant
October 8, 2019, Le Quotidien (Senegal) - Desa Binaan Medco E&P raih penghargaan Proklim Kementerian LHK 2019 [Sukamakmur Village, Musi Rawas Regency, South Sumatra, which is involved with PT Medco E&P Indonesia's community development program (CSR), was awarded the Main Village Climate Program (Proklim) Award from the Ministry of Environment and Forestry (KLHK) 2019.]
October 3, 2019, AntaraSumsel (South Sumatera, Indonesia) - Scientists inspect rice cultivation in Bokaro [National Rice Research Institute, Cuttack, and others visit SRI fields and find success.]
October 2, 2019, The Pioneer (Jharkhand, India)
Blog Posts and Website Articles - accessed during October 2019
- *Krujia, Hannah. 2019. A review: System of crop intensification on field crops. Perspective section, Morung Express. October 31.
- Al-Alou, Ibrahim. 2019. Sustainable rice production. The Levant website. October 31. [An article about Father Laulanié's development of SRI. This article appears to be written in Syria.]
- Marwati. 2019. UGM students win ASEAN Agricultural Engineering for Sustainable Agriculture Production Student Design. Universitas Gadjah Mada website. October 28. [UGM students win 2nd place in Agricultural Engineering for Sustainable Agriculture Production (AESAP) Student Design Competition 2019 for a design of an automatic irrigation system for SRI method.]
- Ratcliff, Anna. 2019. Green Climate Fund short-changed by rich polluting countries. Oxfam website. October 24. [SRI given as an example of Oxfam's efforts to combat climate change.] [See also French version: Le Fonds vert pour le climat, lésé par les pays riches et pollueurs.]
- Priyono, Wahid. 2019. Cara menanam padi dengan System of Rice Intensification (SRI). Tips Petani blog. October 20. [Indonesian language extension material on SRI]
- 2019? The power of a grain of rice. Tearfund website. [Story of an Indian farmer from the Saura ethnic community in India who had success with SRI in project funded by Canada's Tearfund charity.]
- 2019. FAO partnerships working for the Sustainable Development Goals. [In collaboration with Rabobank Foundation, FAO ran successfully a smallholder project (2014-2017) in Tanzania "Thanks to SRI training, productivity levels have risen from an initial 0.5 tonnes of paddy per acre to between 4 and 5 tonnes per acre".] [accessed October 17, 2019]
- Verma, Jyoti. 2019. Farmers turn saviours of traditional rice varieties. Govt. of India Dept. of Science & Technology website. [accessed October 17, 2019] MS Swaminathan Research Foundation (MSSRF), project in Wayanad, Kerala, promotes is conserving traditional varieties and experimenting with SRI.]
- 2019. Spotlight on Lotus Foods. Middlebury Natural Foods Coop website. October 10. [Article about Lotus Foods, including their commitment to SRI methods.]
- 2019. Rice intensification would save 3.13 gigatons of carbon by 2050. The Energy Mix website. October 3. [Recounting of the Drawdown's estimates which rank SRI as #53.]
- Shah, Tavseef Mairaj. 2019. System of Rice Intensification quiz. [A quiz on three attached modules on SRI for Tavseef's class.]
- Ramanujan, Krishna. 2019. African rice farmers test traditions against NY climate. Cornell CALS website. October 9. [Gambian farmers move to Hudson Valley, NY, and try their hand at rice farming.] (also in Cornell Chronicle)
Latest Research / Journal Articles / Theses - links acquired during October 2019
(in order of acquisition. See also complete alphabetized list of journal articles.)
[Note: • Red dot indicates the publication is freely available.]
- • Kusomo, B. B., et al. 2019. Study of intermittent-irrigation technique to cropping patterns and water availability at Pemali Kanan Irrigation Area in Brebes Regency. IOP Conference Series: Earth and Environmental Science 328: 012011 doi:10.1088/1755-1315/328/1/012011
- • Arif, C., et al. 2019. Genetic algorithms optimization for water management in irrigated paddy fields. IOP Conference Series: Earth and Environmental Science 335 012002. doi: 10.1088/1742-6596/1360/1/012008 [accessed October 28, 2019]
- Hidayat, Y.R., and T. Suciaty. 2019. The comparison analysis of farming income between System of Rice Intensification (SRI) technology innovation and conventional agriculture system in rice production center in West Java. Journal of Physics: Conference Series 1360: 012008 [accessed October 22, 2019]
- • Destrianah, Destrianah, et al. 2019. Preferensi petani terhadap budidaya padi System of Rice Intensification (SRI) di kelurahan dusun besar kecamatan Singaran Pati kota Bengkulu. Naturalis 8(2): 1-9. [accessed October 22, 2019]
- • Baltazar, Sofia, et al. 2019. Questioning seeding rates and its influence on phenotypic expression of wheat populations for participatory plant breeding—First findings from field research across organic farms in Belgium and the Netherlands. Organic Farming 5(1): 37–51. doi:10.12924/of2019.05010037 [accessed October 18, 2019]
- • S., Adarsh, and Giffy Thomas. 2019. Artificial groundwater recharge through rice (Oryza sativa L.) cultivation: A systematic review. International Journal of Chemical Studies 7(3): 1856-1860. doi:10.22271/chemi.2019.v7.i3.16.07 [accessed October 16, 2019]
- Majumder, Saddam Hossen, et al. 2019. Factors affecting the adoption of System of Rice Intensification in Tripura: A logit analysis. Indian Journal of Economics and Development 15(3): 461-464. doi: 10.5958/2322-0430.2019.00058.1 [accessed October 16, 2019]
- Feronika, Intan, et al. 2019. Pelatihan metode System of Rice Intensification (SRI) dengan model tanam Jajar Legowo. Aksiologiya 3(2): 220-226. [accessed October 16, 2019]
- Singh, S. K., et al. 2019. Mechanized weed management to enhance productivity and profitability in system of rice intensification. Indian Journal of Weed Science 51(3): 232-235. [accessed October 16, 2019]
New Links to Publications (pdfs, books, etc.) and New Websites- October 2019
- Bhatt, R., R. Kaur R., and A. Ghosh. 2019. Strategies to practice Climate-Smart Agriculture to improve the livelihoods under the Rice-Wheat Cropping System in South Asia. In: Meena R., Kumar S., Bohra J., Jat M. (eds) Sustainable Management of Soil and Environment. Springer, Singapore. [accessed October 18, 2019]
Documents Uploaded and New Pages Created/Updated on our Website - October 2019
- [Web pages updated during October 2019: 2019, Indonesia, Senegal, Tanzania, The Gambia, journal articles, India research, India news, India videos, index, events, SCI, research network page, September additions, latest additions, videos.]
- Fisher, Lucy. 2019. September 2019 additions to the SRI-Rice website. SRI-Rice website.
Videos/Audio - October 2019
- Video: 2019 (October 31). Making research and extension work for rice farmers in West Africa. 57:54 min. The Science Media Production Center at Cornell channel, YouTube. [Seminar at Cornell by Erika Styger.]
- Video: 2019 (October 28). Velaan Neram (28/1-/2019) 57:59 min. dd Agriculture channel, YouTube. [Tamil language TV interview with Dr. C. Muralidaran about SRI.]
- Video: 2019 (October 22). SIUTI 1. Fakhrur Razie channel, YouTube. [Demo of a govt-sponsored environmental SRI-based organic rice production model in a village in South Kalimantan, Indonesia.]
- *Video: 2019 (October 22). Farmers experience from field | System of Millet Intensification – Ragi | Odisha Millets Mission. 3:34 min. Odisha Millets Mission channel. [Indian language with English subtitles. Experience of farmers from different operational districts of Odisha Millets Mission, who adopted SMI (System of Millet Intensification) for better yield in ragi.]
- Video: 2019 (October 19). ปลูกข้าวปักดำต้นเดียว (SRI : System of Rice Intensification). 5:52 min. Kamon Prommak channel, YouTube. [Thai language field video about SRI.]
- Video: 2019 (October 15). System of Rice Intensification (SRI). 4:31 min. Rural and Tribal India channel [English subtitled film on SRI methods in Maharashtra, India]
- Video: 2019 (October 9). 1 SRI Paddy. 8:41 min. TNAU TV channel [Telugu language TV clip on SRI methods produced by Tamil Nadu Agricultural University in India]
- Video: 2019 (October 9). African rice farmers test traditions against NY climate. 2:38 min. CornellCast. [Gambia native Nfamara Badjie grows rice with SRI methods in the Hudson Valley using centuries-old, West African techniques of the Jola people. Cornell rice expert Erika Styger is working with Badjie to study which Jola rice techniques work best in the Northeast.]
Presentations - October 2019
- Fisher, Lucy. 2019. 1911 - Gender Responsive Smallholder Rice Production Practices and Equipment. 42 slides. Presentation at the 2nd Global Sustainable Rice Conference and Exhibition
United Nations Conference Centre, Bangkok Thailand, October 2.
- Vent, Olivia. 2019. 1910 - Integrating Climate-Smart Rice Agriculture in Supply Networks - Lotus Foods' Experience. 10 slides. Presentation at the 5th Global Science Conference on Climate-Smart Agriculture 2019, Jimbaran, Bali, Indonesia, October 8.
* = System of Crop Intensification (SCI)
