January 2020- Additions to the SRI-Rice Website
(Links to online material)
• SRI-RICE STATISTICS for January 2020:
SRI-Rice website: 2,135 users (2,417 last month) from 75 countries (70 last month) logged 2,681 sessions (2,685 last month) in which 4,451 pages (4,374 last month) were viewed. [Top ten countries in order of number of new users: India (661), USA (267), Tanzania (126), Philippines (112), Canada (105 ), Malaysia (56), Nepal (52), Pakistan (43), Argentina (43), Indonesia (41)
Facebook pages: 1) SRI-Rice: All-time likes: 2,553; 2,617 follows. 2) SRI Equipment Innovators Exchange: 327 members, SRI West Africa: 2,066 members, SICA America Latina: 1,148 Total likes; 1,167 follows. Newsletter: 279 views.
YouTube (primary): 2,088 (2,698 last month) new views this month for our 90 uploads. 147 views (122 last month) for our 41 playlists (not including our India YouTube channel). 1,125 subscribers (13 new). 195,204 all time views of our videos. 91,058 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: 1,836 followers (15 new)
Slideshare: 4,736 (4,251 last month) views new this month; 532 slideshows/posters total uploaded, 245 followers
Research Databases: There are 1,709 items (1,258 journal articles), in our Zotero research database (41 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 January 2020: Bangladesh, Bhutan, Bhutan archives, Cambodia, Chile (new page), India, Indonesia, Iraq, Kenya, Myanmar, Sierra Leone, Venezuela, journal articles, India research, India news, India videos, index, events, all news index, presentation index, research network page, Spanish documents, videos, 2020 new additions, 2019 additions.
News from past months
In the Press - January 2020
- Tamil Nadu CM Edappadi Palaniswami presents State awards during Republic Day function [S. Yuvakumar, farmer from Kunnangattu Valasu, Pasuvapatti village in Erode district received special award for highest yield by adopting SRI; award carries cash prize of Rs 5 lakh and a medal.]
January 27, 2020, New Indian Express (Tamil Nadu, India) - COP26: India must commit to landmark Koronivia Joint Work on Agriculture [KJWA doc mentions SRI and Sustainable Sugarcane Initiative noted as sustainable solutions for water use efficiency]
January 20, 2020, Financial Express (India) - Autoridades visitaron ensayos de arroz de INIA que genera ahorro de agua [Guided by the head of the INIA Rice Genetic Improvement Program, Karla Cordero, the Maule agriculture authorities, together with the provincial governor of Linares, visited the SRI demonstration plot maintained by the Institute of Agricultural Research (INIA) in the commune of Parral]
January 15, 2020, El Centro (Chile) - SRI farming methodology training under Jeevan Jeuti Krishak Sangha held in Morigaon [Day-long training held at farmers’ club at Oujar; 300 youth farmers trained in SRI under the District Agriculture Department.]
January 6, 2020, The Sentinel (Assam, India) - Reos de Coclé sembrarán sus propios alimentos en granja de Llano Marín [Panama prisoners experiment with SRI methods in plan to grow their own food.]
January 4, 2020, tvn Noticias (Panama)
Blog Posts and Website Articles - accessed during January 2020
- MDPI. 2020. Special Issue: "The System of Rice Intensification (SRI) Contributions to Agricultural Sustainability." Agronomy journal. [Announcement of upcoming special issue on SRI. Deadline for manuscript submissions: Nov. 1, 2020] [accessed January 31, 2020]
- 2020. Mengenal SRI Organik Indonesia. pertanianku.com website. January 31. [Indonesian language article about organic SRI in Indonesia]
- 2020. Latar belakang terciptanya System of Rice Intensification (SRI). pertanianku.com website. January 30. [Indonesian language article about the history and value of Organic SRI in Indonesia]
- de Rosary, Ebed. 2020. Rahmat Adinata dan mimpi jadikan Sumba Pulau Organik Mongabay website. January 11. [Article about helping the island of Sumba in Indonesia become organic, which includes promotion of SRI.]
- Zevnik, Neil. 2019. How Lotus Foods reduces impact of rice growing on the environment. betternutrition magazine, healthy eating section. December 1. [accessed January 16, 2020]
- Pannell, Marvin. 2020. Paths out of poverty in Myanmar: Haircuts, textiles, rice and more. Reliefweb website. January 6. [Church World Service Country rep from Myanmar reports on ACT Alliance project that supports SRI Farmer Field Schools in Kayin State. A farmer interview indicated tripling of rice yields with SRI.]
- Samdrup Jongkhar Initiative. 2019. System of Rice Intensification at Marangdut in Pangbang. Samdrup Jongkhar Initiative website. July 28. [accessed January 3, 2020]
- Samdrup Jongkhar Initiative. 2019. System of Rice Intensification (SRI) method with Rekhay community. Samdrup Jongkhar Initiative website. July 8. [accessed January 3, 2020]
- Samdrup Jongkhar Initiative. 2019. Reviving paddy cultivation. Samdrup Jongkhar Initiative website. June12. [accessed January 3, 2020]
- 2018. Success story of SJI- System of Rice Intensification (SRI). Samdrup Jongkhar Initiative website. October 5. [accessed January 3, 2020]
Latest Research / Journal Articles / Theses - links acquired during January 2020
(in order of acquisition. See also complete alphabetized list of journal articles.)
[Note: • Red dot indicates the publication is freely available.]
- MDPI. 2020. Special Issue "The System of Rice Intensification (SRI) Contributions to Agricultural Sustainability."Agronomy journal. [Announcement of upcoming special issue on SRI. Deadline for manuscript submissions: Nov. 1, 2020] [accessed January 31, 2020]
- • Akiho, Sayaka. 2020. How "Khmer product" is made through development process: Focusing on changing the value of agricultural products in contemporary Cambodia. Journal of Asian Rural Studies 4(1): 71-87 [accessed January 31, 2020]
- • Too, G., et al. 2020. Analysis of water use in rice production under paddy system and SRI in Ahero Irrigation Scheme, Kenya. African Environmental Review 3(2): 190-198. [accessed January 31, 2020]
- • Khing, Ei Ei, et al. 2019. Effects of different nitrogen fertilizer levels and spacing on phyllochron, yield and yield components of rice (Oryza sativa L.) under System of Rice Intensification (SRI). Journal of Agriculture Research (2) 70-79 [accessed January 28, 2020]
- Lee, Yun-ho, and Myung-Chul Seo. 2019. 캄보디아 남부 농업 생태환경이 다른 지역에서 벼 작부체계와 비료 사용 관리에 대한 실태 조사 -Survey of rice cropping systems and nutrient management in different agroecosystem, Southern Cambodia. 한국국제농업개발학회지 -Journal of the Korean Society of International Agriculture 31(4): 393-398. [accessed January 20, 2015]
- • Nayar, Vibhu, V.K. Ravichandran, B.C. Barah, and N. Uphoff. 2020. Sustainable SRI and rice production: Learnings from an irrigated agriculture management project in Tamil Nadu . Economic & Political Weekly LV(2): 46-51. [accessed January 15, 2015]
- • Baro, Barsri, et al. 2018. Post flowering photosynthetic contribution and productivity of rice (Oryza sativa L.) under different establishment methods. International Conference on Agriculture and Allied Sciences: The Productivity, Food Security and Ecology Proceedings. (Conference held in New Delhi, August 13-14, 2018.) [accessed January 15, 2015]
- • Paul, S.K., M. Ray, M.A.R. Sarkar, and S. Sarkar. 2019. Effect of water, nutrient and weed management on the yield and quality of aromatic boro rice (CV. BRRI dhan50). Bangladesh Agronomy Journal, 22(1), 57-69. doi:10.3329/baj.v22i1.44937 [accessed January 15, 2015]
- • Widyatami, Linda Ekadewi, and Ardhitya Alam Wiguna. 2020. Daya saing dan dampak kebijakan pemerintah terhadap usahatani padi SRI di Kecamatan Rogojampi Kabupaten Banyuwangi. AGRARIS: Journal of Agribusiness and Rural Development Research 5(2): 99-111. doi:10.18196/agr.5279 [accessed January 15, 2020]
- Uddin, M. Taj, and Aurup Ratan Khar. 2020. Assessing the impact of water-saving technologies on Boro rice farming in Bangladesh: economic and environmental perspective Irrigation Science. (online first January 14, 2020). doi:10.1007/s00271-019-00662-2 [accessed January 15, 2015]
- • Bharathi, M. Jeya, and K. Rajappan. 2019. Effect of microbial inoculants with low dose of inorganic fertilizers on microbial growth, soil enzymes, plant growth and yield of rice. Oryza 56(4): 396-404. doi:10.35709/ory.2019.56.4.8 [accessed January 15, 2015]
- • Sukarya, Yaya, et al. 2016. Analisis komparatif usahatani padi SRI (System of Rice Intensification) dengan PTT (Pengalolaan Tanaman Terpadu) “Studi kasus di Kecamatan Kebon Pedes Kabupaten Sukabumi Jawa Barat”. E-Jurnal: Penyuluhan Pertanian 11(2): 91-104. [accessed January 15, 2015]
- • Arif, Chusnul, et al. 2019. Water balance analysis on water management of organic System of Rice Intensification (Organic-SRI) in West Java, Indonesia. Jurnal Irigasi 14(1): 17-24. doi: 10.31028/ji.v14.i1.17-24 [accessed January 3, 2020]
- • Faisal, F., et al. 2019. A review of technology innovation in increasing rice production. Agrotech Journal 4(2): 75-82. doi: 10.31327/atj.v4i2.1095 [accessed January 3, 2020]
- • Singh, R., and S. M. Feroze. 2019. Evolution of system of rice intensification (SRI) and economic security in Tripura state of North East hill region of India. e-planet 17(2): 89-97. [accessed January 1, 2020]
- Andi, Febriansyah. 2019. Pengaruh tinggi genangan air terhadap pertumbuhan vegetatif padi Ciherang metode SRI Jajar Legowo 2:1. Undergraduate thesis, Universitas Muhammadiyah Mataram, Lombok, Indonesia. [accessed January 1, 2020]
- • Jafar, R., and S. Alimin. 2019. Peran penyuluh pertanian dalam penerapan budidaya padi organik dengan metode SRI (System of Rice Intensification) di Kota Tarakan. J-Pen Borneo: Jurnal Ilmu Pertanian 2(2): 1-8. [accessed January 1, 2020]
- • Ramesh, P., D. Vengatesan, and S. Natrajan. 2019. SRI - A system of cultivation for increasing the knowledge level of the paddy farmers. Plant Archives 19(2): 2247-2250. [accessed January 1, 2020]
- • Maravi, P., S. M. Kurmvanshi and K. Namdeo. 2019. Performance of rice (Oryza sativa) varieties under different sowing methods in Kymore plateau. Annals of Plant and Soil Research 21(3): 293-295. [accessed January 1, 2020]
- • Singh, A., and M. Chakraborti. 2019. Water and nitrogen use efficiency in SRI through AWD and LCC. Indian Journal of Agricultural Sciences 89(12): 2059-63. [accessed January 1, 2020]
- • Pal, Payel. 2019. Impact of controlled release urea on carbon fractions under different established methods of rice cultivation. M.Sc. thesis, Bidhan Chandra Krishi Viswavidyalaya, West Bengal, India. [accessed January 1, 2020]
New Links to Publications (pdfs, books, etc.) and New Websites - January 2020
- none this month
Documents Uploaded and New Pages Created/Updated on our Website - January 2020
- [Web pages updated during January, 2020: Bangladesh, Bhutan, Bhutan archives, Cambodia, Chile (new page), India, Indonesia, Iraq, Kenya, Myanmar, Sierra Leone, Venezuela, journal articles, India research, India news, India videos, index, events, all news index, presentation index, research network page, Spanish documents, videos, 2020 new additions, 2019 additions]
- Fisher, Lucy. 2020. December 2019 monthly news additions to the SRI-Rice website.
Videos/Audio - January 2020
- 2020 (January 4). Comment cultiver du riz - riziculture, mode d'emploi [Série Riziculture - 2]. 5:13 min. Le Potagiste channel, YouTube. [French language video that describes SRI and suggests the methods are accessible to gardeners.]
Presentations - January 2020
- Cordera Lara, Karla. 2018. Towards a More Sustainable Rice Crop: The System of Rice Intensification (SRI) Experience in Chilean Temperate Japonica Rice. Poster presentation at the Third International Symposium on Rice Science in Global Health, held November 29-30, 2018. [uploaded January 19, 2020]
* = System of Crop Intensification (SCI)
