December 2020 - Additions to the SRI-Rice Website (Links to online material)
(See previous months acquisitions - 2013-2020)
• SRI-RICE STATISTICS for December 2020:
SRI-Rice website: 2,461 users (2,318 last month) from 69 countries (63 last month) logged 3,175 sessions (2,878 last month) in which 5,134 pages (4,552 last month) were viewed. [Top ten countries in order of number of new users: India (873), USA (357), Philippines (148), Tanzania (135), Nepal (97), Malaysia (96), Indonesia (72), China (58), Japan (51), Nigeria (45)]
Facebook pages: 1) SRI-Rice: 2,557 likes and 2,628 followers. 2) SRI Equipment Innovators Exchange: 341 members (1 new) 3) SRI West Africa: 1,986 members, 4) SICA America Latina: 1,138 likes; 1,159 follows.
SRI-Rice Newsletter: 150 views (209 last month).
YouTube (primary): 2,483 (1,920 last month) new views this month for our 90 uploads. 84 views (94 last month) for our 41 playlists (not including our India YouTube channel). 1,414 subscribers (19 new). 248,075 all time views of our videos. 92,775 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: 1,895 followers (9 new)
Slideshare: 9,210 (6,756 last month) views new this month; 534 slideshows/posters total uploaded, 251 followers
Research Databases: There are 1,844 items (1,317 journal articles), in our Zotero research database (12 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 December 2020: 2020 additions, Egypt, Indonesia, Iraq, Japan, Mali, Myanmar, Philippines, Tanzania, Togo, practical manuals, home page, India news, India research, India videos, journal articles, SCI (other crops), videos, November 2020 additions (new page), events
In the Press - December 2020
- نظم تكثيف الأرز الجديدة تكنيك ناجح أم أوهام مطلقة؟ (New rice intensification systems: Successful technique or absolute illusion?) December 24, 2020, Al-Ahram Gate (Egypt)
- Award to be named after ryots’ leader [SRI contest to be named after farmer rights leader C Narayanasamy Naidu.]
December 22, 2020, New Indian Express (Tamil Nadu, India) - Système de riziculture intensive : Une technique pour accroître la production du riz [The Center for Green Innovations for the Agro-Food Sector of GIZ Mali (CIV / GIZ-Mali) yesterday promoted SRI during a workshop of the National Intensive Rice Cultivation System Program (PN-SRI).]
December 7, 2020, L'Essor Mali (Mali)
Blog Posts and Website Articles - accessed during December 2020
- Sarr, Mare. 2020. Rice farmers can get better yields and more resilience to climate change. Environment for Development (EfD) website. December 15. [Findings of a SRI research article about Tanzania.]
- Webb, Catherine. 2020. The System of Rice Intensification in Sustainable Agriculture. Transformation website. November 18. [accessed December 17, 2020]
- *2020. Indigenous youth in agriculture during COVID-19. IFAD website. August 7. [accessed December 14, 2020]
- 2020. Togo: Système de riziculture intensive (SRI). CORAF website. [Regional website (CORAF) gives information on how to get in contact with SRI experts in Togo.] [accessed December 13, 2020]
- 2020. Climate change. Oxfam website. December 11. [Oxfam is undertaking SRI training for farmers in Vietnam and Haiti to help produce more resilient rice crops while using less water.]
- Su, U Thein. 2018. စပါးအစွမ်းရှိ စိုက်ပျိုးနည်းစနစ်၏အခြေခံမူများ (SRI growing practices). Greenway Myanmar website. February 5. [Practical information on SRI implementation - in Burmese language.] [accessed December 3, 2020]
- 2020. New farming techniques transform livelihoods. Growing Hope Globally website. December. [Farmer success story by India Umsning Program which is led by World Renew and Local Partner NEICORD] [accessed December 3, 2020]
Latest Research / Journal Articles / Theses - links acquired during December 2020
(in order of acquisition. See also complete alphabetized list of journal articles.)
[Note: • Red dot indicates the publication is freely available.]
- Kim, Soohong (김수홍), et al. 2020. 유역모델에서의 SRI 기법 적용에 따른 유량확보 및 수질 개선 효과 분석 (Application of SRI Methods in SWAT Model to Retain Agricultural Water). Korean Society of Agricultural Engineers Conference. 발행기관 : 한국농공학회. [accessed December 27, 2020]
- *Rao, K. V. R., et al. 2016. Maximising water productivity of wheat crop by adopting drip irrigation. Research on Crops 17(1): 163-168. doi: 10.5958/2348-7542.2016.00029.2 [accessed December 27, 2020]
- Majumder, Saddam Hossen, Prodyut Bijoy Gogoi and Nivedita Deka. 2019. System of rice intensification (SRI): An innovative and remunerative method of rice cultivation in Tripura, India. Indian Journal of Agricultural Research. 53(4): 504-507. doi:10.18805/IJARe.A-5224 [accessed December 27, 2020]
- Hardiana, Egi. 2020. Pengaruh intermittent irrigation terhadap ketahanan penetrasi regosol dan latosol dramaga, Bogor, Jawa Barat. Undergraduate thesis, Institut Pertanian Bogor (Indonesia). [accessed December 17, 2020]
- • Mohd Soom, M. A., A. Awang, and M.B. Jalloh. 2020. Evaluation of different designs of isolated cells to raise single rice seedlings for SRI mechanized transplanting. Advances in Agricultural and Food Research Journal 1(2): a0000146. doi:10.36877/aafrj.a0000146 [accessed December 17, 2020]
- • Shahane, A.A., Y.S. Shivay, R. Prasanna, et al. 2020. Nutrient removal by rice–wheat cropping system as influenced by crop establishment techniques and fertilization options in conjunction with microbial inoculation. Science Reports 10: 21944. 10.1038/s41598-020-78729-w
- • Budianto, Muh. Bagus, et al. Model irigasi hemat air perpaduan System of Rice Intensification (SRI) dengan Alternate Wetting and Drying (AWD) pada padi sawah. Jurnal Teknik Pengairan: Journal of Water Resources Engineering 11(2): 128-136. doi: 10.21776/ub.pengairan.2020.011.02.06
- • Yuhardi, Erick, Gusnidar, and Syafrimen. 2020. Aplikasi kompos (jerami+tithonia) dan biochar dengan menggunakan kombinasi yang berbeda dalam upaya peningkatan sifat kimia tanah pada lahan sawah dengan metode SRI (System of Rice Intensification) di kota Padang. Jurnal AGROHITA 5(2): 109-117. [accessed December 9, 2020]
- • Saju, Sandra Maria, and Thavaprakaash N. 2020. Dry-matter partitioning and nutrient uptake of rice (Oryza sativa L.) under Modified System of Rice Intensification. Madras Agricultural Journal 170(1-3): 30-35. [accessed December 9, 2020]
- • Saju, Sandra Maria, and Thavaprakaash N. 2020. Intensification on growth, root characteristics and yield of rice in the western zone of Tamil Nadu. Madras Agricultural Journal 170(1-3): 25-29. [accessed December 5, 2020]
- • Putri, Eka Wulandari Srihadi, et al. 2015. Evaluasi kinerja Daerah Irigasi Jragung Kabupaten Demak. Jurnal Teknik Pengairan 6(1): 66-75 [accessed December 1, 2020]
- • Rahman, Mohammed Mahabubur, and Akinori Yamamoto. 2020. Methane cycling in paddy field: A global warming issue. In: Meena, Ram Swaroop, ed., Agrometerology (Online first). Intechopen website. [accessed December 1, 2020]
New Links from our Website to Online Publications (and SRI-Related Social Media sites) - Dec. 2020)
- None this month (see also Latest Research section for links to online research publications).
Documents Uploaded and New Pages Created/Updated on our Website - December 2020
- [Web pages updated during November 2020: 2020 additions, Egypt, Indonesia, Iraq, Japan, Mali, Myanmar, Philippines, Tanzania, Togo, practical manuals, home page, India news, India research, India videos, journal articles, SCI (other crops), videos, November 2020 additions (new page), events]
- Su, Thein. 2020. Farmers' handbook on System of Rice Intensification -SRI. SRI-Rice website. June. (68p. pdf). [Also uploaded on Slideshare (easier to access as file does not need to be downloaded) [uploaded December 18, 2020]
- Fisher, Lucy. 2020. November 2020 monthly news additions to the SRI-Rice website.
Videos/Audio - December 2020
- 2020. System of Rice Intensification (SRI). 2:17 min. Resilience India channel, YouTube. [Video sponsored by NIBIO, ICAR and NRRI in India that is a short overview of SRI methods from seed to harvest.]
- 2020 (December 26). Keynote: Good Farmer by Dr. Hart N. Feuer, Junior Ass. Prof. Divn. of NRE, GSA, Kyoto Univ. USA. 50:14. min. Kstacademy channel, YouTube. [Hart Feuer is not sure SRI is really new.]
- 2020 (November 23). Recent advances in crop management. 45:55. TNAU TV channel, YouTube. [Tamil Nadu Agricultural University presentation at the ICCCWAFS conference, December 13, 2016. SRI is the main topic.]
- 2020 (December 2). SRI VARI Cultivation. 9:04 min. Farm Things channel, YouTube. [Indian farmer describes his SRI experience.]
Presentations - December 2020
- Hameed, Khidhir Abbas. 2020. System of Rice Intensification SRI (Iraq). 39 slides. December 9, 2020. Webinar by the Central and West Asian Rice Center (CWARice). [See webinar agenda]
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