April 2020- Additions to the SRI-Rice Website
(Links to online material)
• SRI-RICE STATISTICS for April 2020:
SRI-Rice website: 2,347 users (1,985 last month) from 77 countries (80 last month) logged 3,087 sessions (2,671 last month) in which 5,992 pages (4,808 last month) were viewed. [Top ten countries in order of number of new users: India (479), USA (408), Spain (95), Philippines (85), Tanzania (78), Colombia (86), Malaysia (62),UK (58), Mexico, (50), Indonesia (49)
Facebook pages: 1) SRI-Rice: 2,571 likes and 2,639 followers. 2) SRI Equipment Innovators Exchange: 328 members, 3)SRI West Africa: 2,049 members, 4) SICA America Latina: 1,146 likes; 1,166 follows.
SRI-Rice Newsletter: 228 views (243 last month).
YouTube (primary): 4,159 (2,367 last month) new views this month for our 90 uploads. 122 views (86 last month) for our 41 playlists (not including our India YouTube channel). 1,205 subscribers (41 new). 204,554 all time views of our videos. 91,434 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: 1,852 followers (3 new)
Slideshare: 3,663 (2,948 last month) views new this month; 532 slideshows/posters total uploaded, 246 followers
Research Databases: There are 1,747 items (1,259 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 April 2020: Cambodia, Chile, Cote d'Ivoire, Indonesia, Kenya, Malaysia, Taiwan, Tanzania, journal articles, India research, India news, index, events, research network page, Spanish documents, SFMI, SRI Equipment Workshop presentations, Other SCI, videos, 2020 new additions, March 2020 additions (new page)
News from past months
In the Press - April 2020
- Encourage SRI method (Letters to the editor) [Rajiv Maga suggests mechanized SRI for Covid19 times.]
April 24, 2020, Hindu Businessline (Karnataka, India) -
COVID-19 in Rural India-XX: Life on Hold in Tripura
April 22, 2020, NewsClick (Tripura, India) - Kilimo shadidi 'System of rice intensification (SRI)' ni mbinu ya kisasa ya inayosaidia wakulima kupata mavuno mengi [Swahili article about SRI in Tanzania]
April 4, 2020, Mtanzania (Tanzania) - Metode tanam SRI, upaya Dompet Dhuafa jaga sumber pangan saat pandemi Covid-19
[Despite COVID-19, SRI trainings/harvests ongoing]
April 4, 2020, Kompas (Central Java, Indonesia)
Blog Posts and Website Articles - accessed during April 2020
- Makruf, Anas. 2020. Sistem SRI tanam benih muda lebih hemat hasil melimpah. carabudidaya.id website. April 28. [Indonesian language post reviewing the reasons and principles of SRI.]
- Penrhys-Evans. Toby . 2020. How SRI technology and irrigation has transformed Anita’s life. Future Agricultures blog. April 23. [Find out how SRI transformed a farmer's life in the Njage irrigation scheme in Tanzania.]
- Held, Lisa. 2020. Could changing the way we farm rice be a climate solution? Civil Eats website. April 23.
- Blumenfeld, Jenna. 2020. 50 ways the natural products industry can love the Earth. New Hope Network website. April 22. [SRI inlcuded Earth Day article on 50 ways natural products are good for the planter.]
- 2020. Del laboratorio al campo: Las investigaciones más destacadas del INIA del mes de febrero. Mundoagro website. April 15. [Summary of INIA Quilamapu's recent work with SRI in Parrall, Chile.]
- Mantava, John. 2020. FarmBiz TV: Irrigation Board launches rice scheme to double yields. FarmBiz Africa website. April 11. [The National Irrigation Board in Kenya has launched a new rice production system (SRI) to improve food security. The programme combines using certified seeds and intensive water management with high levels of farmer sensitization.]
- Haryono, Moch. 2020. Budidaya padi dengan SRI lebih menguntungkan. Radio Republik Indonesia website. April 9. [To increase rice productivity through SRI, the Madiun District Agriculture and Fisheries Office (East Java, Indonesia) will make numerous pilots as their SRI demo plots so far have never failed.]
- Rohayana, Dede, et al. 2019. Budidaya padi dengan System of Rice Intensification. BPTP Lampung website. October 10. [Extension material in Bahasa Indonesia.]
- Barua, Ananya. 2020. Bihar’s ‘Mushroom Mahila’ empowers 10K women, now earns lakhs! The Better India website. [Prize-winning Bihar woman mushroom farmer also helped 2,500 farmers create self-help groups, and taught them the SRI.] [accessed April 1, 2020]
Latest Research / Journal Articles / Theses - links acquired during April 2020
(in order of acquisition. See also complete alphabetized list of journal articles.)
[Note: • Red dot indicates the publication is freely available.]
- •Tarigan, Raudha A., et al. 2019. Effect of irrigation, chemical fertilization, and probiotics in rice fields soil properties. 3rd World Irrigation Forum (WIF3). Sept. 1-7, 2019, Bali, Indonesia. [accessed April 25, 2020]
- • Anbumani, S., S. Selvakumar, and K. Thirukumaran. 2020. Mechanized transplanting in system of rice intensification and its evaluation. International Journal of Chemical Studies 8(20): 2301-2305. [accessed April 25, 2020]
- *Natarajan., S., et al. 2019. Effect of spacing and nutrient sources on system of finger millet (Eleusine coracana) intensification. Indian Journal of Agronomy 64(1): 98-102 [accessed April 17, 2020]
- • Zoundou, S. Jean Paul, et al.l. 2019. Comparison of yields attributes and water productivity under the System of Rice Intensification (SRI) in southern Taiwan. Paper presented at the 3rd World Irrigation Forum, Bali, Indonesia, September 1-7, 2019. [accessed April 17, 2020]
- • Kharim, Muhammad Nurfaiz Abd., et al. 2020. Effect of variable rate application on rice leaves burn and chlorosis In System of Rice Intensification. Malaysian Journal of Sustainable Agriculture 4(2): 66-70 [accessed April 2, 2020]
- • Soverda, Nerty, et al. 2019) The Influence of granting compost Azolla sp on the growth and the result of rice (Oryza Sativa L) with a method of SRI. Journal of Research on the Lepidoptera 50(3): 341-347. [accessed April 1, 2020]
New Links to Publications (pdfs, books, etc.) and New Websites - April 2020
- None this month. For research pdfs, see section above.
Documents Uploaded and New Pages Created/Updated on our Website - April 2020
- Web pages updated during April 2020: Web pages updated during April 2020: Cambodia, Chile, Cote d'Ivoire, Indonesia, Kenya, Malaysia, Taiwan, Tanzania, journal articles, India research, India news, index, events, research network page, Spanish documents, SFMI, SRI Equipment Workshop presentations, Other SCI, videos, 2020 new additions, March 2020 additions (new page)
- Fisher, Lucy. 2020. March 2020 monthly news additions to the SRI-Rice website.
Videos/Audio - April 2020
- 2020 (April 7). Rice farmers yield expected to double up with the new System of Rice Intensification technology. 3:11 min. FarmBiz Africa channel, Youtube. [The National Irrigation Board in Kenya has launched a new rice production system (SRI) to improve food security. The programme combines using certified seeds and intensive water management with high levels of farmer sensitization.]
- 2020 (April 2). 7 Steps of System of Rice Intensification (SRI). 5:43 min. Karuna Battambang channel, YouTube. [See also German subtitle version]. [An SRI video on the work of the Karuna Battambang organization, a aid group by the Catholic Church in Cambodia.]
- 2019. (May 17). T&P du 30-03-2019 : [1ère Partie] Système de Riziculture Intensive . 12:32 min. FIRCA channel, YouTube. [Video from Cote D'Ivorie. M. KOUAKOU Marcel est l’un des précurseurs e`n Côte d’Ivoire, producteur de riz vivant à Yamoussoukro] [accessed April 9, 2020.]
Presentations - April 2020
- none this month
* = System of Crop Intensification (SCI)
