March 2020- Additions to the SRI-Rice Website
(Links to online material)
• SRI-RICE STATISTICS for March 2020:
SRI-Rice website: 1,985 users (2,063 last month) from 80 countries (70 last month) logged 2,671 sessions (2440 last month) in which 4,808 pages (3,985 last month) were viewed. [Top ten countries in order of number of new users: USA (432), India (400), Philippines (134), Tanzania (96), Australia (66), UK (55), Malaysia (51), Indonesia (49), Japan (41), Canada (40)
Facebook pages: 1) SRI-Rice: 2,567 likes and 2,632 follows. 2) SRI Equipment Innovators Exchange: 328 members, SRI West Africa: 2,052 members, SICA America Latina: 1,147 Total likes; 1,167 follows.
SRI-Rice Newsletter: 243 views (257 last month).
YouTube (primary): 2,367 (2,492 last month) new views this month for our 90 uploads. 86 views (164 last month) for our 41 playlists (not including our India YouTube channel). 1,164 subscribers (23 new). 200,132 all time views of our videos. 91,334 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: 1,849 followers (4 new)
Slideshare: 2,948 (4,049 last month) views new this month; 532 slideshows/posters total uploaded, 246 followers
Research Databases: There are 1,734 items (1,253 journal articles), in our Zotero research database (11 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 March 2020: Cambodia, Indonesia, Kenya, Malaysia, Nepal, Nepal archives, Tanzania, Vietnam, Vietnam archives, journal articles, India research, India news, India videos, index, events, research network page, Spanish documents, videos, 2020 new additions, February 2020 additions (new page)
News from past months
In the Press - March 2020
- Improved irrigation infrastructure boosts crops' production in Mbeya
March 19, 2020, IPPMedia (Tanzania) - Madurai farmers wait endlessly for more DPCs [After 15 years, Madurai farmers now generally adopt SRI.]
March 16, 2020, The Hindu (Tamil Nadu, India) - Peran bioteknologi tanah dalam mencapai sistem pertanian berkelanjutan [Article about agroecology development in Indonesia that highlights SRI.]
March 12, 2020, Bengkulu News (Bengkulu, Indonesia) - SRI helping Ba Kelalan farmers produce chemical-free rice [27 farmers from Long Langai in Sarawak's Ba Kelalan highlands harvested their second batch of Adan rice from pilot plots.]
March 6, 2020, Borneo Post (Sarawak, Malaysia) - Badalta Bharat: Promoting growth in rural India [Adani Foundation's SRI initiative has changed the lives of 1,30,000 beneficiaries in almost 64 villages in and around Maharashtra’s Tirora town.]
March 4, 2020, Republic (Maharashtra, India)
Blog Posts and Website Articles - accessed during March 2020
- Mwajombe, Kizito K., Gideon Boniface and Aida Isinika. 2020. Njage Farmers preparing to take rice commercialisation to the next level. Futures Agricultures blog. March 30. [Many rice farmers in Njage village under CWAUNJA, an irrigation scheme farmer association, have been using SRI since 2009 when it was introduced by collective efforts of the district extension services, Kilombero Plantation Limited (KPL), USAID, and others.]
- Yattara, Mahamadou. 2020. Office Riz Mopti: Hausse de 45% du budget. Maliweb website. March 9. [Mopti Rice Office increases budget by 45%. SRI figures prominently in plans along with irrigation.]
- Lakshmi. 2020. #EachforEqual: Impact Stories: PRADAN WOMEN. Feature article, Krishijagran website. March 7. [#EachforEqual, PRADAN introduced a new method of Agriculture, System of Root Intensification (SRI) in Debgaon in Chhattisgarh. Entire village adopted SRI following year.]
Latest Research / Journal Articles / Theses - links acquired during March 2020
(in order of acquisition. See also complete alphabetized list of journal articles.)
[Note: • Red dot indicates the publication is freely available.]
- • Perumal, M. Saravana, et al. 2019. Effect of system of rice intensification on yield attributes towards enhancement of grain yield in rice. Journal of Pharmacognosy and Phytochemistry 8(2): 1541-1543. [accessed March 31, 2020]
- Majumder, Saddam H., et al. 2019. Does the System of Rice Intensification make a difference to resource use efficiency? Evidence from Tripura, India. Agricultural Economics Research Review 32(2): 289-294. doi: 10.5958/0974-0279.2019.00040.5 [accessed March 31, 2020]
- • Phuong, D.T.L., N.T. Hoa, and N.T.H. Nga. 2020. Impact of irrigation techniques on rice yield and dynamics of zinc in plants and soil. Plant, Soil, and Environment 66: 135–142. doi:10.17221/660/2019-PSE [accessed March 30, 2020]
- • Waris, Amtul, et al. 2019. Climate resilient production practices: Extent of adoption and barriers faced by rice farmers in Telangana state of India. Journal of Cereal Research 11(3): 293-299. doi:10.25174/2249-4065/2019/94868 [accessed March 26, 2020]
- Kumar, Vikas. 2020. Social innovation for agricultural development: A study of System of Rice Intensification in Bihar, India. Millennial Asia (online first March 7, 2020) 0976399619900615. doi:10.1177/0976399619900615
- Raut, Nani, et al. 2020. Methane emission from unsustainable crop production in Nepal, system of rice intensification as an option for mitigation, in Climate Change and Soil Interactions, pages 37-49. doi:10.1016/B978-0-12-818032-7.00003-5
- *• Rao, K.V.R., and Suchi Gangwar. 2019. Energy assessment of wheat under conventional and drip irrigation systems. International Journal of Chemical Studies 7(1): 664-669.
- Prasad, C Shambu. 2020. Constructing alternative socio-technical worlds: Re-imagining RRI through SRI in India. Science, Technology & Society (online first March 5, 2020) doi: 10.1177/0971721820903002
- • Yeasmin, M. S., et al. 2008. Effects of date of transplanting on the growth parameters of boro rice varieties under the system of rice intensification. Bangladesh Journal of Environmental Science 14(1): 71-75. [accessed March 4, 2020]
- • Isnawan, Bambang Heri, et al. 2020. Secondary macronutrients up-take, root development, and chlorophyll content of local rice varieties grown under System of Rice Intensification (SRI) vs. conventional methods. International Journal on Advanced Science, Engineering and Information Technology 10(1): 381-388. doi:10.18517/ijaseit.10.1.11057[accessed March 4, 2020]
- • Mutiara, Farah, and Sustiyana Sustiyana. 2019. Kontributsi penyuluh pertanian dalam mensukseskan UPSUS padi S.R.I. (System of Rice Intensification) di Kecamatan Kepanjen Kabupaten Malang. Pengembangan Sumber Daya Lokal untuk Mewujudkan Ketahanan Pangan Nasional Proceedings of the Seminar Nasional Sumber Daya National. 2(1). [accessed March 4, 2020]
New Links to Publications (pdfs, books, etc.) and New Websites - March 2020
- Mati, Bancy. 2020. Local manufacture of rotary weeders Is linked to adoption of SRI in Kenya. SRI-Rice website. March 30. [6p pdf]
Documents Uploaded and New Pages Created/Updated on our Website - March 2020
- Web pages updated during March 2020: Cambodia, Indonesia, Kenya, Malaysia, Nepal, Nepal archives, Tanzania, Vietnam, Vietnam archives, journal articles, India research, India news, India videos, index, events, research network page, Spanish documents, videos, 2020 new additions, February 2020 additions (new page)
- Fisher, Lucy. 2020. February 2020 monthly news additions to the SRI-Rice website.
Videos/Audio - March 2020
- 2020 (March 24). Budidaya Padi Organik Metode Tanam SRI. 12:00 min. nofi akbar channel, YouTube. [Instructions in Bahasa Indonesia on how to plant organic SRI paddy in Bali, Indonesia.]
- 2020 (March 4). Badalta Bharat: Promoting Growth in Rural India. 4:03 min. Republic website. [Adani Foundation's SRI initiative has changed the lives of 130,000 beneficiaries in almost 64 villages in and around Maharashtra’s Tirora town.]
- 2020 (March 2). Karuna Battambang Org. Agriculture Research Study of Farmers best Practices; English subtitle. 22:11 min. Karuna Battambang channel, YouTube. [Study of farmer best practices by Karuna Battambang Org in Cambodia.]
- 2019 (May 2). Alat Pematun Padi Sawah Dari Papan Bekas. 5:18 min. Tymoty Aquero channel, YouTube. [Indonesian video on how to make your own paddy weeder.] [accessed March 2, 2020]
- 2019 (September 11). Basmi Hama Rumut Sawah Pake Alat Ini. 10:25 min. Serabutan channel, YouTube. [Hand tool for weeding padi.] [accessed March 1, 2020]
Presentations - March 2020
- none this month
* = System of Crop Intensification (SCI)
