December 2021 - Additions to the SRI-Rice Website (Links to online material)
(See previous months acquisitions - 2013-2021)
• SRI-RICE STATISTICS for December 2021:
SRI-Rice website: 2,061 new users (2,059 users last month) from 61 countries (67 last month) logged 2,717 sessions (2,669 last month) in which 4,282 pages (4,231 last month) were viewed. [Top ten countries in order of number of new users: India (632), USA (322), China (140), Tanzania (119), Philippines (112), Nepal (68), UK (59), Japan (64), Indonesia (51), Malaysia (47)]
Facebook pages: 1) SRI-Rice: 2,552 likes; 2,663 follows. 2) SRI Equipment Innovators Exchange: 374 members. 3) SRI West Africa: 1,941 members, 4) SICA America Latina: 1,137 likes; 1,167 follows
SRI-Rice Newsletter: 93 views (128 last month)
YouTube (primary): 1,071 (1,203 last month) new views this month for our 90 uploads. 270 views (135 last month) for our 41 playlists (not including our India YouTube channel). 1,636 subscribers (6 new). 272,858 all time views of our videos (2009-2021). 93,607 lifetime views of our playlists (2013-2021) [NOTE!: The 8 India playlists from the SRI India video channel are now accessible on the main SRI-Rice video channel].
Twitter: 1,926 followers
Slideshare: 8,466 views this month; 540 slideshows/posters total uploaded, 258 followers
Research Databases: There are 2,025 items (1,423 journal articles), in our Zotero research database (11 new)
• For additional global news see: our News page, Latest Additions, SRI Newsletter, LinkedIn, or see news by country
• SRI-Rice web pages updated during December 2021: 2021 additions, November 2021 additions (new page), Bangladesh, Côte d’Ivoire, DR Congo,Indonesia, Iran, Iraq, Nepal, Nigeria, Philippines,Thailand, journal articles, India journal articles, India news, SWI, videos
In the Press - December 2021
- PT Vale kenalkan padi SRI organik ke petani di Blok Pomalaa [Progress by PT Vale's CSR SRI organic project in Sulawesi, Indonesia]
December 19, 2021, Sindonews (Sulawesi Selatan, Indonesia) - ‘Mechanised transplanting of paddy will save farmers ₹3,600 per acre’
December 8, 2021, The Hindu (Tamil Nadu, India) - Climate smart water saving techniques for mitigation of climate change impacts in hill agriculture
December 7, 2021, The Sangai Express (Manipur, India) - Man/Riziculture : 12 ‘‘champions’’ nationaux du projet Sri de la Cnra distingués [12 SRI champions cited at national Nov. workshop on SRI project that showed yield gains of 11 to 78%]
December 3, 2021, Fratmat.info (Côte d'Ivoire)
Blog Posts and Website Articles - accessed during December 2021
- PIB. 2021. Minimization of carbon footprint. Press Information Bureau - India website. December 14.
- 2021. Rice in Rajasthan: A detailed overview. SupeRice website. December 10. [Discusses SRI among other topics]
- Salvi, Irene (editing/translation). 2021. Farmer field schools at the service of sustainable rice. Rikolto website. December 8. [Rikolto's SRI work in the DR Congo]
- Ramanujan, Krishna. 2021. $14M grant to adapt West African rice production to climate. Cornell Chronicle. December 7. [News about 13-country RICOWAS project that promotes SRI in West Africa]
- System of Rice Intensification (SRI). Vikaspedia website. [Instructional SRI information from India] [accessed December 8, 2021]
- Selda Jr., Eleazar N. 2021. Benepisyaryo ng grarian reform sa mogpog nagsanay ng sri/. Marinduque News. December 7. [50 Agrarian Reform beneficiaries from Bintakay Farmers Association, had a 2-day SRI training under the Climate Resiliency Farm Productivity Support Program of the Department of Agrarian Reform in Marinduque.]
- Patle, GT. 2021. Climate smart water saving techniques for mitigation of climate change impacts in hill agriculture. The Sangai Express. December 7 .(SRI included; from Manipur, India)
- Mondal, Monika. 2021. Why India is neglecting its methane problem. Eco-Business website. December 3. [While India did not ledge to reduce methane at COP26, SRI is suggested as an idea to reduce emissions in India.]
- 2021. Rice in Tamil Nadu: A detailed analysis. Superrice website. December 2. [While published in 2021, this article, which has a lot of info on SRI in Tamil Nadu, seems to have been written in 2008.]
Latest Research / Journal Articles / Theses - links acquired during December 2021
(in order of acquisition. See also complete alphabetized list of journal articles.)
[Note: • Red dot indicates the publication is freely available.]
- Samudra, I Made, et al. 2021. Use of Bacillus firmus E65-talc based formulation for the management of bacterial leaf blight disease. Gontor AGROTECH Science Journal, 7(2): 183-214.
- *• Sikdar, Samrat, Satya Prakash and Shweta Kumari. 2020. Analysing the demographic and socio-personal characteristics of ‘System of Wheat Intensification’ (SWI) adopter as well as non-adopter farmers: A study in Samastipur District of Bihar State, India. International Journal of Current Microbiology and Applied Sciences 9(4): 476-485. doi:10.20546/ijcmas.2020.904.056 [accessed December 20, 2021]
- • Nasamu, Michael A., and Ali Garba. 2020. Productivity of irrigated and rainfed rice (Oryza sativa L.) as influenced by seedling age and row spacing in Kuru Plateau State, Nigeria. International Journal of Agriculture, Environment and Bioresearch 5(1): 71-84. doi: 10.35410/IJAEB.2020.5461 [accessed December 17, 2021]
- • Doni, Febri, et al. 2021. Associations of Pantoea with rice plants: Friends or foes? Agriculture 11(12): 1278 doi: 10.3390/agriculture11121278 [accessed December 17, 2021]
- • Korotoumou, Mariko, et al. Stochastic Meta Frontier analysis of smallholder rice farmers’ technical efficiency. Journal of Agricultural Science 11(8): 31-44. doi:10.5539/jas.v11n8p31 [accessed December 12, 2021]
- Jagannath, Madane Ananda, J.K. Singh, and Vijay Pratap. 2021. Effect of irrigation and nitrogen management on yield and economics of SRI-grown hybrid rice (Oryza sativa). The Indian Journal of Agricultural Sciences. 91:(11) [accessed December 6, 2021]
- Fafchamps, Marcel, et al. 2021. Mobilizing P2P diffusion for new agricultural practices: Experimental evidence from Bangladesh.The World Bank Economic Review. 35(4): 1076-1101, doi:10.1093/wber/lhab009 [accessed December 4, 2021]
New Links from our Website to Online Publications (and SRI-Related Social Media sites) - December 2021
- Neupane, S., et al. 2021. Climate investment plan for the agriculture sector: A decision support tool for scaling up Climate-Smart Agriculture technologies and practices in Gandaki Province, Nepal. Local Initiatives for Biodiversity, Research and Development (LI-BIRD) and Ministry of Land Management, Agriculture, Cooperative and Poverty Alleviation (MoLMACPA), Gandaki Province, Pokhara, Nepal [accessed December 7, 2021]
Documents Uploaded and New Pages Created/Updated on our Website - December 2021
- [Web pages updated during December 2021: 2021 additions, November 2021 additions (new page), Bangladesh, Côte d’Ivoire, DR Congo,Indonesia, Iran, Iraq, Nepal, Nigeria, Philippines,Thailand, journal articles, India journal articles, India news, SWI, videos]
- Hameed, Khidhir Abbas, and Abdulkadhim Jawad Musa. 2021. Report on our activities on the SRI system during the past four rice seasons in Iraq (2018-2021). SRI-Rice website. November. (4p., 2.14MB) [uploaded December 15, 2021]
- Fisher, Lucy. 2020. November 2021 news additions to the SRI-Rice website.
Videos/Audio - December 2021
- 2021 (December 18). धान सघनीकृत प्रणाली प्रविधि (System of Rice Intensification, SRI) for loksewa aayog @लोकसेवा Hub. 9:10 min. लोकसेवा Hub channel, YouTube. [Hindi language SRI instruction; text only]
- 2021 (December 14). SRI (System of Rice Intensification) at ECHO Asia Farm. 4:34 min. ECHO Asia channel, YouTube. [Thai version also available] [This video from ECHO Asia, which is located in northern Thailand explains SRI and emphasizes its importance for producing pure seed.]
Presentations - December 2021
- none this months
