August 2020 - Additions to the SRI-Rice Website
(Links to online material)
• SRI-RICE STATISTICS for August 2020:
SRI-Rice website: 2,201 users (2,243 last month) from 75 countries (83 last month) logged 2,685 sessions (2,910 last month) in which 4,336 pages (5,006 last month) were viewed. [Top ten countries in order of number of new users: India (654), USA (184), UAE (164), Tanzania (100), Philippine (82), China (73), Australia (60), Malaysia (57), Nepal (60), Japan (46)]
Facebook pages: 1) SRI-Rice: 2,576 likes and 2,644 followers. 2) SRI Equipment Innovators Exchange: 332 members 3) SRI West Africa: 2,021 members, 4) SICA America Latina: 1,143 likes; 1,164 follows.
SRI-Rice Newsletter: 78 views (416 last month).
YouTube (primary): 8,468 (16,571 last month) new views this month for our 90 uploads. 192 views (290 last month) for our 41 playlists (not including our India YouTube channel). 1,353 subscribers (28 new). 238,680 all time views of our videos. 92,318 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: 1,871 followers (7 new)
Slideshare: 8,468 (6,382 last month) views new this month; 532 slideshows/posters total uploaded, 251 followers (2 new)
Research Databases: There are 1,788 items (1,285 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
• SRI-Rice web pages updated during August 2020: 2020 additions, Chile, Ghana, India, India research, India videos, Indonesia, Kenya, Madagascar, Malaysia, Mali, Tanzania, Togo, Venezuela, Vietnam, journal articles, videos, July 2020 additions (new page)
News from past months
In the Press - August 2020
- Green development: Strategising mitigation of agricultural methane emissions [SRI, in combination with solar-powered drip emitters along with artificial intelligence (AI)-embedded systems could be the best bet to increase rice yield and mitigate methane emission significantly.]
August 24, 2020, Financial Express (India) - Trabajos de INIA sobre arroz en Chile son destacados por Universidad estadounidense [A review from Chile of the SRI-Rice Chile page!]
August 15, 2020, San Carlos Online (Chile) - Metode tanam padi SRI, bina tani organik [Farmers group in Desa Jirak go from 1 to 7 tons/ha with SRI]
August 13, 2020, LamanQu (Sumatera Selatan, Indonesia) - Lotus Foods Basmati is first rice to achieve Regenerative Organic certification [This rice is grown with SRI methods.]
August 11, 2020, Cision PR Newswire (USA) - Nagarathnam Naidu, the ryot who turned barren land into fertile farm [Telangana farmer tames wasteland; gets 92 bags/acre of paddy with SRI.]
August 10, 2020, Telangana Today (Telangana, India) - Irrigation plots increase by 233,715 hectares in five years
August 4, 2020, Daily News (Tanzania) [article also carried in AllAfrica]
Blog Posts and Website Articles - accessed during August 2020
- 2020. Neue wege im reisanbau führen aus der krise. Jesuitenweltweit website. August 28. [Story about farmers in Jesuit programs in Cambodia using SRI during the COVID crisis.]
- *2020. Financial security from agriculture. Rajiv Ghandi Charitable Trust website. [RGMVP teaches SRI and System of Wheat Intensification (SWI), which has resulted in yield increase by 30%.]
- Simcik, Cameron. 2020. How Lotus Foods is changing the rice category from paddy to plate. New Hope Network website. August 19. [Story of Lotus Foods, a rice importer who has been importing SRI-grown rice for a decade.]
- 2020. Universidad de Cornell, EE.UU. reconoció metodología INIA en producción de arroz en Chile. INIA Chile blog. August 17. [Spanish language blog post about INIA's SRI collaboration in Chile with Cornell and IICA.]
- Canzano, Julia. 2020. How ECHO is fighting global hunger and poverty. Borgen Project website. August 17. [SRI progress in Togo cited as the example of ECHO successful practices around the world.]
- 2020. Polsek Sungai Keruh Muba ikuti panen bersama padi organic di Desa Jirak. Divisi Humas Polres website. August 14. [Indonesian language article about a Pertamina CSR project for organic SRI in Jirak, South Sumatera]
- 2020. Successful innovation attempt by a Venezuelan farmer to improve rice resilience. IICA website. August 13. [Account of an ongoing SRI project in Venezuela.]
Latest Research / Journal Articles / Theses - links acquired during August 2020
(in order of acquisition. See also complete alphabetized list of journal articles.)
[Note: • Red dot indicates the publication is freely available.]
- • Mwalilino, J.K., et al. 2020. Health risks assessment for paddy rice farmers during rice crop production in Eastern Tanzania. Journal of Entomology and Zoology Studies 8(3): 1608-1615. [accessed August 30, 2020]
- • Kumbhar, C.R., and S.P.N. Singh. 2020. Species compositions of rice stem borers in different rice cultivation system under north Bihar condition. Journal of Entomology and Zoology Studies 8(4): 1906-1909. [accessed August 28, 2020]
- • Patel, Mamta, and Sneha Pandey. 2020. Impact evaluation of the scheme on SRI implementation in Mahasamund district of Chhattisgarh. Journal of Pharmacognosy and Phytochemistry Sp9(2): 379-382 [accessed August 22, 2020]
- • Ramulu, V., et al. 2020. Evaluation of water saving rice production systems. Journal of Pharmacognosy and Phytochemistry 2020; 9(2): 658-660 a. [accessed August 21, 2020]
- • Mugalavai, E.M., et al. 2018. Using system of rice intensification practices to mitigate climate change effects on rice production in Western Kenya. RUFORUM Working Document Series 17(1): 357-366. [accessed August 18, 2020]
- • Kadigi, Ibrahim L., et al. 2020. An economic comparison between alternative rice farming systems in Tanzania using a Monte Carlo Simulation approach. Sustainability 12 (Online first August 12, 2020) 1-22.
- • Sherif, Abubakari Mohammed, et al. 2020. Effects of spacing and water control on growth and yield performance of irrigated rice in Guinea savannah agro ecological zone. Ghana Journal of Science, Technology and Development 7(1): 26-37 [accessed August 12, 2020]
- • Thi, My Hoa Do, et al. 2020. Establishment of community-based dissemination model and its effective function for sustainable food security and poverty reduction. Journal of Agricultural Science and Technology B 10: 83-88 doi: 10.17265/2161-6264/2020.02.003 [accessed August 10, 2020]
- • Diwan, Pushpraj, et al. 2019. Developing situation of mechanical weeding in rice. Journal of Pharmacognosy and Phytochemistry 8(6): 438-441. [accessed August 9, 2020]
- • Kunjammal, P., et al. 2020. Effect of rice varieties on physiological parameters under flood irrigation and alternate wetting and drying (AWD) irrigation practices. Journal of Pharmacognosy and Phytochemistry 9(3): 2197-2201. [accessed August 9, 2020]
- • Jenn-Treyer, Olivier, Marie-Hélène Dabat, and Philippie Grandjean. 2007. Une deuxième chance pour le système de riziculture intensive à Madagascar ? La recherche d’un compromis entre gain de productivité et investissement en facteur de production. Paper presented at the conference Dynamiques rurales à Madagascar: Perspectives sociales, économiques et démographiques, held April 23-23, 2007, in Antananarivo, Madagascar. 28p. [accessed August 9, 2020]
- • Ouma-Onyango, Amos. 2014. Promotion of rice production: A likely step to making Kenya food secure. An assessment of current production and potential. Developing Country Studies 4: 26-31. [accessed August 8, 2020]
- • P., Ayyadurai, and R. Thiyagarajan, 2020. Cono weeder - A best weed management tool in System of Rice Intensification (SRI). Biotica Research Today 2(7): 656-657. [accessed August 5, 2020]
- • Gimbad, Elizabeth. 2020. Cultivating rice and identity: An ethnography of the Dusun people in Sabah, Malaysia. Master's thesis. Western Sydney University. 108 p. [accessed August 1, 2020]
New Links from our Website to Online Publications (and SRI-Related Social Media sites) (2020)
(see also Latest Research ).
- 2020. Rice strategic partnership. SAGCOT website. August 2020. [Southern Agricultural Growth Corridor of Tanzania (SAGCOT) brochure that highlights progress with SRI in Kilombero and Mbeya.]
Documents Uploaded and New Pages Created/Updated on our Website - August 2020
- [Web pages updated during August 2020: 2020 additions, Chile, Ghana, India, India research, India videos, Indonesia, Kenya, Madagascar, Malaysia, Mali, Tanzania, Togo, Venezuela, Vietnam, journal articles, videos, July 2020 additions (new page)
- Fisher, Lucy. 2020. July 2020 monthly news additions to the SRI-Rice website.
Videos/Audio - August 2020
- 2020 (August 27). Sustainable Rice Intensification in Baguineda, Mali. 9:33 min. Green innovation centres channel, YouTube. [French language video with input from GIZ ag extension agent for SRI, Djiguiba Kouyate.]
- 2020 (August 19). ஒற்றை நாற்று நடவு முறை தொழில்நுட்பங்கள் | திருந்திய நெல் சாகுபடி system of rice intensification 3:13 min. Sirkali TV channel, YouTube. [Tamil language discussion of SRI.]
- 2020 (August 17). Story from the field: Adoption Experience of SRI. 7:23 min. CIPT-channel, YouTube. [Interview with a SRI farmer near Ludhianan, Punjab, who is part of a Centers for International Projects Trusts (CIPT) program.]
- 2020 (August 11). Betsaida Soublette, Experiencia SRI. Venezuela. IICA channel, Vimeo. [Spanish language video in which Betsaida Soublette, a rice researcher in Venezuela, describes her SRI trials she is conducting.]
- 2020 (August 10). Cara Menyiapkan Lahan Untuk Tabur Benih Padi Dengan Metode Tanam SRI. 2:53 min. Petani Cinta Alam channel, YouTube. [Short Indonesian language video about seedbed construction.]
- 2020 (August 7). Pertumbuhan padi Sistem SRI - System of Rice Intensification. 9:18 min. Kang Arif channel, YouTube. [Indonesian language video by extension agent.]
- 2020 (August 3). SRI method of rice cultivation at Varanashi Farms [Kannada Edition]. 6:27 min. Varanashi Organic Farms channel, YouTube. [Kannada language (India) instruction video on seed/seedbed/preparation and planting using SRI methods.]
- 2020 (August 1). Lesson In Organic Rice Planting, System of Rice Intensification SRI, Ba'kelalan Highlands Sarawak. 6:33 min. #bombasticborneo channel, YouTube. [Someone videos a training of SRI in Ba'kelalan, Sarawak, Malaysia. The trainer is from WWF.]
Presentations - August 2020
- None this month.
* = System of Crop Intensification (SCI)
