November 2021 - Additions to the SRI-Rice Website (Links to online material)
(See previous months acquisitions - 2013-2021)
• SRI-RICE STATISTICS for November 2021:
SRI-Rice website: 2,059 new users (2,131 users last month) from 67 countries (71 last month) logged 2,669 sessions (2,609 last month) in which 4,231 pages (4,104 last month) were viewed. [Top ten countries in order of number of new users: India (549), USA (349), Philippines (109), China (106), Nigeria (80), Japan (69), Tanzania (60), UK (50), Malaysia (46), Indonesia (45)
Facebook pages: 1) SRI-Rice: 2,555 likes; 2,666 follows. 2) SRI Equipment Innovators Exchange: 373 members (21 new) 3) SRI West Africa: 1,940 members, 4) SICA America Latina: 1,137 likes; 1,167 follows
SRI-Rice Newsletter: 128 views (76 last month)
YouTube (primary): 1,203 (1,372 last month) new views this month for our 90 uploads. 135 views (79 last month) for our 41 playlists (not including our India YouTube channel). 1,630 subscribers (7 new). 270,531 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: 1,925 followers (4 new)
Slideshare: 8,672 views this month; 540 slideshows/posters total uploaded, 257 followers
Research Databases: There are 2,014 items (1,412 journal articles), in our Zotero research database (9 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 November 2021: 2021 additions, October 2021 additions (new page), Côte d’Ivoire, Haiti, Indonesia, Iraq, Nepal, Panama, Tanzania, journal articles, India journal articles, India news, India videos, SRI groups/networks, research network, videos.]
In the Press - November 2021
- Bumi Sorowako sehat, petani makmur [Organic SRI project in Sorowako, East Luwu Regency, South Sulawesi Province, Indonesia; a CSR project of PT Vale Indonesia, a nickel mining company]
November 26, 2021, Sulteng Terkini (Sulawesi Tengah Indonesia) - Sustainable farm practices need of the hour [SRI/SCI included in post-COP26 discussions on climate change in India.]
November 15, 2021, The Tribune (India) - SRI: A new technique is helping Nepal farmers produce more rice with less water
November 21, 2021, Online Khabar (Nepal) - COPOUT at COP26 [While NDC targets are vague and over-ambitious, SRI is suggested by author to reduce methane in Nepal.]
November 11, 2021, The Nepali Times (Nepal) - La Côte d’Ivoire réduira ses émissions de gaz à effet de serre de 30,41% [Côte d'Ivoire is committed to reducing its greenhouse gas emissions by 30.41% by 2030, according to its Minister of the Environment and Sustainable Development, Jean-Luc Assi.]
November 10, 2021, @BIDJ@n.net (Côte d’Ivoire) - Pernem farmer harvests 1.5 tonne of hybrid, local rice varieties organically using ‘better yield’ tech
November 8, 2021, Times of India (Goa, India)
Blog Posts and Website Articles - accessed during November 2021
- 2021. System of Rice Intensification. Regenerative Agriculture website. November 29. [Summary of Oxfam SRI article]
- 2021. Why Jubilee Justice is teaching Black farmers to grow organic rice. New Hope Network website. November 19.
- 2021. System of Rice Intensification. Oxfam website. November. [Oxfam's views and success with SRI]
- Matsumoto, Nancy. 2021. Meet the African farmer growing rice in New York’s Hudson Valley. Civil Eats, November 18. [Story of Gambian rice farmers in NY, who are workiing with SRI methods.]
- D'Souza, Renita. 2021. Perspectives on a green taxonomy for India. Observer Research Foundationa (ORF).website. November 11. [SRI among suggestions in light of COP26 discussions. in India]
- 2021. A French missionary’s agricultural system for Nepal’s rural populations. World Neighbors website. November 9. [Story of World Neighbors SRI farmers in Nepal]
- 2021. Journey of Bari Marndi. Land Tenure Hub website November 9. [Woman from relocated village in Odisha succeeds with SRI and help from Indian Grameen Services, who help her to purchase more land.]
- Gnoumou, Daouda. 2021. La Zone ANADER de Katiola s'inscrit dans la dynamique nationale d’auto suffisance en riz. Agence Nationale d'Appui au Développement Rural (ANADER) website. [The yields obtained in 2020 and 2021 in Katiola, Cote d'Ivoire are ~6 to 8 t/ha. ANADER supervisory agents provide advisory support.] [accessed November 6, 2021]
- 2021? Rizipisciculture, la technique qui booste la production du riz a Oume. Agence Nationale d'Appui au Développement Rural (ANADER) website. October 21? [SRI/fish project makes progress in Cote d'Ivoire.] [accessed November 6,,2021]
- De Poli, Alessandra. 2021. Il sistema agricolo di un missionario francese per le popolazioni rurali del Nepal. AsiaNews.it website. November 6. [Italian language article about World Neighbors SRI experience in Nepal. Most participants are women. At the request of the participants, they are experimenting with using human urine as fertilizer.]
- Ji-hyun. 2021. Agro office in India promotes black rice farming. WeKnowRice blog. November 5. [The zonal agricultural department of Saligao, India, has decided to introduce the black rice variety to Goan farmers.]
- Sn, Atick. 2012. Modul 8. Kebutuhan dan cara pemberian air irigasi untuk tanaman padi sawah metode SRI. [This article in Bahasa Indonesia describes how to undertake water management for SRI.] [accessed November 4, 2021]
- *2021. Five food processing companies that take CSR seriously. The CSR Journal. November 3. [Nestle launched a water stewardship CSR initiative with AgSri at the Kabini river Basin in Karnataka to promote SRI and SSI]
Latest Research / Journal Articles / Theses - links acquired during November 2021
(in order of acquisition. See also complete alphabetized list of journal articles.)
[Note: • Red dot indicates the publication is freely available.]
- • Musa, Jawad, Saddam Hussein Abbas, and Khidhir Abbas Hameed. 2021. Performance of two rice (Oryza sativa L.) genotypes Under modern and conventional farming methods in three locations in Iraq. IOP Conf. Series: Earth and Environmental Science 910: 012067. doi:10.1088/1755-1315/910/1/012067 [accessed November 27, 2021]
- • Ires, Idil. 2021. Intensive agriculture as climate change adaptation? Economic and environmental tradeoffs in securing rural livelihoods in Tanzanian river basins. Frontiers in Environmental Science 9: 531. [accessed November 26, 2021]
- • Massawe, Ikunda H., Filbert B. Rwehumbiza and Balthazar M. Msanya. 2017. Effect of water management systems with different nutrient combinations on performance of rice on soils of Mvumi, Kilosa district, Tanzania. International Journal of Current Research in Biosciences and Plant Biology 4(2): 34-44. doi:10.20546/ijcrbp.2017.402.005 [accessed November 26, 2021]
- • Massawe, Ikunda H,. Filbert B. Rwehumbiza and Balthazar M. Msanya. 2016. Effect of water management systems with different nutrient combinations on performance of rice on soils of Mvumi, Kilosa district, Tanzania. M.Sc thesis, Sokoine University (Tanzania). 82p. [accessed November 26, 2021]
- • Sarangi, S.K., et al. 2011. Assessment of System of Rice Intensification (SRI) during Rabi season in coastal salt-affected soils. Journal of Indian Society Coastal Agricultural Research 29(1): 54-58. [accessed November 23, 2021]
- • Joseph, Erdjani. 2020. Etude du comportement de quatre (4) variétés de riz (Oryza sativa L.) face aux attaques des maladies foliaires et de la pourriture des gaines en Système de Riziculture Intensif (SRI) et en Système de Riziculture Traditionnel (SRT) à Bocozelle 5ème section communale de Saint-Marc. Diplôme Ingénieur-Agronome thesis. Université Quisqueya (Haiti). 80 p. [accessed November 7, 2021]
- • Salwati, S., et al. 2021. Peningkatan kadar Zn beras pecah-kulit pada sistem penggenangan berselang melalui aplikasi pupuk kandang diperkaya Zn heptahidrat. Jurnal Ilmu Pertanian Indonesia 26(4): 630-638. [accessed November 4, 2021]
- • Ha, Tuan M., and Ho Van Bac. 2021. Effects of Climate-Smart Agriculture adoption on performance of rice farmers in northeast Vietnam. Asian Journal of Agriculture and Rural Development 11(4): 291-301. doi:10.18488/journal.ajard.2021.114.291.301 [accessed November 4, 2021]
New Links from our Website to Online Publications (and SRI-Related Social Media sites) - November 2021
- Hong, TV, et al. 2021. Rice cultivation ambition in the new and updated Nationally Determined Contributions: 2020-2021: Analysis of agricultural sub-sectors in countries’ climate change strategies. CCAFS Info Note. Wageningen, The Netherlands: CGIAR Research Program on Climate Change, Agriculture and Food Security (CCAFS). [Shows the number of countries including SRI and other rice production strategies in their NDCs.]
Documents Uploaded and New Pages Created/Updated on our Website - November 2021
- [Web pages updated during November 2021: 2021 additions, October 2021 additions (new page), Côte d’Ivoire, Haiti, Indonesia, Iraq, Nepal, Panama, Tanzania, journal articles, India journal articles, India news, India videos, SRI groups/networks, research network, videos.
- Fisher, Lucy. 2020. October 2021 news additions to the SRI-Rice website.
Videos/Audio - November 2021
- 2021 (November 21). E-Konsultani -- IoT Solution for SRI Paddy Farm Monitoring. 4:00 min. X-Camp IoT Lab channel, YouTube. [(Bahasa Indonesia) Internet of Things (IoT) tech applied to SRI in West Java, Indonesia]
- 2021 (November 16). Program Dosen Wajib Meneliti (PDWM) 2021. 14.07 min. Jumar channel, YouTube. [(Bahasa Indonesia). Video about instructors and students from Universitas Lambung Mangkurat doing SRI fieldwork in Kailmantan Selatan, Indonesia. Includes details on soil fertility research, field research methods, and other SRI practices.]
- 2021 (November 8). System of Rice Intensification (SRI): Comparison and Advantages. 16:48 min. Hello Agrarian by Dr. T. Pandiaraj channel, YouTube. [Video intended to help Indians prepare for ICAR exams.]
Presentations - November 2021
- 2021. El Sector Agropecuario Panameno Contribuyendo a la Lucha Frente al Cambio Climatico. 6 slides. SRI-Rice channel, Slideshare. [This is a partial slideset related to the System of Rice Intensification (SRI). The full slide set was presented at COP26, Glasgow, Scotland, by the Ministereo Desarrollo Agropecuario, Panama, during November 2021.] [uploaded November 15, 2021]
