November 2020 - Additions to the SRI-Rice Website (Links to online material)
(See previous months acquisitions - 2013-2020)
• SRI-RICE STATISTICS for November 2020:
SRI-Rice website: 2,318 users (2,547 last month) from 63 countries (82 last month) logged 2,878 sessions (3,267 last month) in which 4,552 pages (5,313 last month) were viewed. [Top ten countries in order of number of new users: India (683), USA (319), Philippines (164), Pakistan (162), Malaysia (74), Indonesia (71), Tanzania (68), Nepal (63), Japan (54), China (50)]
Facebook pages: 1) SRI-Rice: 2,560 likes and 2,632 followers. 2) SRI Equipment Innovators Exchange: 341 members (1 new) 3) SRI West Africa: 1,989 members, 4) SICA America Latina: 1,139 likes; 1,160 follows.
SRI-Rice Newsletter: 209 views (53 last month).
YouTube (primary): 1,920 (2,190 last month) new views this month for our 90 uploads. 94 views (136 last month) for our 41 playlists (not including our India YouTube channel). 1,414 subscribers (17 new). 245,512 all time views of our videos. 92,687 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: 1,886 followers (6 new)
Slideshare: 6,756 (4,735 last month) views new this month; 532 slideshows/posters total uploaded, 252 followers
Research Databases: There are 1,832 items (1,307 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 November 2020: 2020 additions, Bangladesh, Indonesia, Iraq, Kenya, Liberia, Madagascar, Malaysia, Mali, Myanmar, Nepal, Pakistan, Philippines, Tanzania, home page, India news, India research, India videos, journal articles, SCI (other crops), videos, October 2020 additions (new page), events
In the Press - November 2020
- Thrust on cost saving water management for irrigation [Regional event on cost-saving water mgmt. notes SRI among suggested innovations.]
November 29 2020, Financial Express (Bangladesh) - Farmers struggling to bring food on the table amid climate change [SRI part of government's plan to adopt Climate Smart Agriculture and reduce water use.]
November 25, 2020, IPP Media (Tanzania) - Baru calls for allocation to increase rice production in the state [Article notes importance of traditional rice grown with SRI in Sarawak.]
November 12, 2020, Borneo Post (Sarawak, Malaysia) - Cercle de Yélimané: Journée de récolte de riz à Niogoméra
November 5, 2020, Bamada.net (Mali)
- Program pemberdayaan ekonomi warga lingkar opera
si Blok A binaan PT Medco dinilai gagal [PT Medco's CSR organic rice program, including SRI, fails in parts of East Aceh.]
November 3, 2020, Suara Indonesia (East Aceh, Indonesia) - Livelihood initiatives benefit over 1450 farmers in Noamundi [Over 101 farmers trained on SRI cultivation by Tata Steel Foundation in Noamundi,West Singhbhum district, Jharkhand, India.]
November 3, 2020, Town Post (India)
Blog Posts and Website Articles - accessed during November 2020
- 2020. Tanam padi hibrida Sl 8 Shs dengan sistem SRI. CYBEXT website. November 26. [Govt. SRI training in Jembrana, Bali, Indonesia.]
- 2020. IBTE Practical on SRI. IBTE - Institute of Brunei Technical Education facebook page. July 19. [SRI training in Brunei.]
- 2020. Incentive based contract farming in Malawi. November 15. SNRD Africa website. [Farmers expected to use SRI in the incentive-based contract farming scheme for over 4,500 farmers in Karonga in Malawi’s Northern Region. [Project by NASFAM, a GIZ KULIMA MIERA and UK-funding PROSPER Markets project. ]
- 2020. ZOA introduces new rice farming techniques which increases the rice harvest with 30%. ZOA website. November. [Three villages find SRI success in Kulawi, Central Sulawesi, Indonesia, with Farmer Field School sponsored by the NGO ZOA]
- date? Gawat!! Metode seperti ini bisa panen padi organik lebih banyak. Desaku blog. [In Indonesian language. Short piece on SRI instruction and advantages.]
- 2020. Promoting sustainable and inclusive rice value chain in Indonesia. Rikolto Indonesia website. [The NGO Rikolto uses both SRI methods and SRP standards in their rice production projects in Java, Indonesia.]
- Penrhys-Evans, Toby. 2020. APRA Tanzania present findings to media. Future Agricultures. November 12. [SRI trainings recommended nationwide by researchers at Sokoine University.]
Latest Research / Journal Articles / Theses - links acquired during November 2020
(in order of acquisition. See also complete alphabetized list of journal articles.)
[Note: • Red dot indicates the publication is freely available.]
- Rakotovao, Narindra Harisoa, et al. 2020. Production impacts on greenhouse gas balance and rural economy after agroecology development in Itasy Madagascar. Journal of Cleaner Production (In press) 125220. doi:10.1016/j.jclepro.2020.125220 [accessed November 26, 2020]
- Majumder, Supriya, and Pabitra Banik. 2020. Inhibition of arsenic transport from soil to rice grain with a sustained field-scale aerobic rice cultural practice. Journal of Environmental Management (in press). doi: 10.1016/j.jenvman.2020.111620 [accessed November 23, 2020]
- Kumar, Manoj, et al. 2016. Productivity enhancement of rice through crop establishment techniques for livelihood improvement in Eastern Himalayas. ORYZA- An International Journal of Rice 53(3): 300-308. doi:10.18782/2582-2845.8131 [accessed November 23, 2020]
- • Prusty, Ajay Kumar, et al. 2020. Knowledge level of farmers regarding System of Rice Intensification (SRI) method in Puri District of Odisha. Indian Journal of Pure & Applied Biosciences 8(3): 270-277. doi:10.18782/2582-2845.8131
- • Nazir, Aijaz, et al. 2020. Crop establishment and weed management effect on weed parameters and rice yield under temperate zone of Kashmir. Indian Journal of Weed Science 52(3): 217–221. [accessed November 17, 2020]
- • Alam, Khairul, et al. 2020. Rice (Oryza sativa L.) establishment techniques and their implications for soil properties, global warming potential mitigation and crop yields. Agronomy 10(6): 888. doi: 10.3390/agronomy10060888 [accessed November 17, 2020]
- • Kumar, S. M., and N. Thavaprakaash. 2020. Relationship of surface soil temperature on rice (Oryza sativa L.) yield under high density planting in tropics of India. MAUSAM 71(4): 708-716 [accessed November 9, 2020]
- • Akondo, Md Robiul Islam, et al. 2020. Comparative performance of System of Rice Intensification (SRI) and conventional methods of rice cultivation in Gopalganj District of Bangladesh. Asian Plant Research Journal 6(4):1-7 [accessed November 7, 2020]
- • Sartika, Dewi, et al. 2020. Development of irrigation tank monitoring system and its environment for the effectiveness of rice irrigation. Acta Universitatis Agriculturae et Silviculturae Mendelianae Brunensis 68(5): 859–865 doi:10.11118/actaun202068050859 [accessed November 7, 2020]
- • Chadhar, A. R., et al. 2020. Quantifying the impact of plant spacing and critical weed competition period on fine rice production under the system of rice intensification. International Journal of Agriculture & Biology 24(5):1142‒1148. [accessed November 3, 2020]
- Sarr, Mare, et al. 2021. Who benefits from climate-friendly agriculture? The marginal returns to a rainfed system of rice intensification in Tanzania. World Development 138: 1050160 (in press). doi:10.1016/j.worlddev.2020.105160 [accessed November 3, 2020]
- Thakur, Nitika. 2021. An insight through root-endophytic-mutualistic association in improving crop productivity and sustainability. In: Shrivastava N., Mahajan S., Varma A. (eds) Symbiotic Soil Microorganisms. Soil Biology, vol 60. Springer, Cham. 10.1007/978-3-030-51916-2_2 [accessed November 1, 2020]
New Links from our Website to Online Publications (and SRI-Related Social Media sites) - Nov. 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 - November 2020
- [Web pages updated during November 2020: 2020 additions, Bangladesh, Indonesia, Iraq, Kenya, Liberia, Madagascar, Malaysia, Mali, Myanmar, Nepal, Pakistan, Philippines, Tanzania, home page, India news, India research, India videos, journal articles, SCI (other crops), videos, October 2020 additions (new page), events]
- Su, Thein. 2020. Farmers' handbook on System of Rice Intensification -SRI. SRI-Rice website. June. (68p. pdf). [accessed November 2020]
- Fisher, Lucy. 2020. October 2020 monthly news additions to the SRI-Rice website.
Videos/Audio - November 2020
- 2020 (November 26). Cleaner Air Better Life - Crop Residue Management Initiative 0:52 min. CII Foundation channel, YouTube. [Haryana (India) farmer describes his progress with SRI.]
- 2020. (November 24). System of rice intensification: Farmers’ awareness, perceptions, and attitudes. 4:19 min. NBRC channel, YouTube. [Video of a UPLB presentation at the 8th NBRC conference in the Philippines about SRI adoption in General Nakar, Quezon, wherein the Rice Watch Action Network (RWAN) in cooperation with the Municipal Agriculture had conducted trainings on SRI through the Climate Resiliency Field School (CrFS).]
- 2020 (November 14). System on Rice Intensification (စပါးအစွမ်းဖွင့် စိုက်ပျိုးနည်းစနစ်). 1:37:17 min. FarmGate AgTech channel, YouTube. [Long-time SRI trainer U Thein Su gives a lecture on SRI in Myanmar. In Burmese language.]
- 2020 (November 10). Ano Ang System of Rice Intensification (SRI System) / Oleg's Fishing Farming Edition. 9:52 min. Oleg's Fishing channel, YouTube. [Tagalog language SRI description from the Philippines.]
Presentations - November 2020
- None this month
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