October 2021 - Additions to the SRI-Rice Website (Links to online material)
(See previous months acquisitions - 2013-2021)
• SRI-RICE STATISTICS for October 2021:
SRI-Rice website: 2,131 new users (2,153 users last month) from 71 countries (75 last month) logged 2,609 sessions (2,648 last month) in which 4,104 pages (4,175 last month) were viewed. [Top ten countries in order of number of new users: India (614), USA (331), China (171), Philippines (159), Indonesia (62), Tanzania (62), Nepal (54), Japan (53), UK (38)]
Facebook pages: 1) SRI-Rice: 2,563 likes; 2,674 follows. 2) SRI Equipment Innovators Exchange: 352 members (3 new) 3) SRI West Africa: 1,947 members, 4) SICA America Latina: 1,137 likes; 1,167 follows
SRI-Rice Newsletter: 76 views (75 last month)
YouTube (primary): 1,372 (1,811 last month) new views this month for our 90 uploads. 79 views (74 last month) for our 41 playlists (not including our India YouTube channel). 1,623 subscribers (6 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: 1,921 followers
Slideshare: 7,916 views this month; 539 slideshows/posters total uploaded, 257 followers
Research Databases: There are 2,005 items (1,407 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 October 2021: 2021 additions, September 2021 additions (new page), DR Congo, Indonesia, Madagascar, Malaysia, Nigeria, journal articles, India journal articles, India news, India videos, SRI groups/networks, research network, videos.]
In the Press - October 2021
October 2021
- ‘Do more to ramp up rice production’ [Rospidah Ghazali, research fellow at UKM says government and farmers must work together to improve rice production... Gov should also focus on adopting/improving SRI techniques.]
October 25, 2021, The Sun Daily (Malaysia) - Meningkatkan produksi padi dengan teknik SRI [Govt in South Solok Regency supports SRI.]
October 18, 2021, Harian Haluan.com (West Sumatra, Indonesia) - Agro dept urges ryots to grow 'black rice' [Saligao, Goa: The zonal agriculture office growing black rice with SRI to encourage additional rice varieties.]
October 16, 2021, Times of India (Goa, India) - Farm mechanization in rice cultivation [Notes transplanters and weeders appropriate for SRI.]
October 1, 2021, Greater Kashmir (Kashmir, India)
Blog Posts and Website Articles - accessed during October 2021
- Doni, Febri. 2021. Indonesian SRI Research and Innovation Network (IndoSRInet). IndoSRInet website. [This is the new website of the newly revived Indonesian SRI Network. See also the new IndoSRInet facebook page.] [accessed October 31, 2021]
- 2021. Improving food security in West Africa through resilient rice cultivation. Observatoire du Sahara et du Sahel website. October 28. [The Adaptation Fund (AF) has just approved the “Scaling up Climate Resilient Rice Production in West Africa” (RICOWAS) project, a 4-year 14 million dollar project to promote SRI and other rice resilient measures in 13 West African countries.]
- LINKS. 2021. Climate-Smart Agriculture. LINKS website. [The program Catalysing Economic Growth for Northern Nigeria (LINKS), funded by UKAID, works in the northern Nigerian states of Kano, Kaduna and Jigawa. SRI is an important part of their CSA programming.]
- Mosha, Devotha, et al. 2021. Holistic adoption of System of Rice Intensification can increase yields: A case of Mngeta, Kilombero District, Tanzania. Future Agricultures blog. September 28. [Summary of ARPA paper that discusses SRI adoption by farmers who are not following usual SRI practices.] [accessed October 20, 2012]
- Deltour, G. 2021. Du Riz pour le Makay: Étude de faisabilité d’un Système de Riziculture Intensive (SRI). Naturevolution website. October 3.
- Suwardiyasa, Putu. 2018. Metode tanam padi System of Rice Intensification (SRI). Dinas Pertanian (Buleleng, Bali) website. October 19. [Instructional material by Ministry of Agriculture in Buleleng Regency, Bali]
- Held, Lisa. 2021. Methane from agriculture is a big problem. We explain why. Civil Eats website. October 6. [Article mentions SRI among solutions.]
- Held, Lisa Elaine. 2021. What you need to know about the environmental impacts of rice production. FoodPrint website. October 1. [Article that includes info on various SRI ventures in the USA and also why SRI is important.]
Latest Research / Journal Articles / Theses - links acquired during October 2021
(in order of acquisition. See also complete alphabetized list of journal articles.)
[Note: • Red dot indicates the publication is freely available.]
- • Behera, Abhishek Kumar, et al. 2021. Response of black rice (Oryza sativa L.) varieties to organic amendments under SRI method of cultivation. The Pharma Innovation Journal 10(10): 1101-1103. [accessed October 30, 2021]
- Palit, P.N., et al. .2021. Ecointensification in agriculture under changing climate. In: Jhariya M.K., Banerjee A., Meena R.S., Kumar S., Raj A. (eds) Sustainable Intensification for Agroecosystem Services and Management. Springer, Singapore. 10.1007/978-981-16-3207-5_22 [accessed October 22, 2021]
- • Arif, C., et al. 2021. Performance of agro-environmental monitoring for optimum water and crop management: A case study for East Nusa Tenggara, Indonesia. IOP Conference Series: Earth and Environmental Science 871(1): 012032. doi:10.1088/1755-1315/871/1/012032 [accessed October 20, 2021]
- • Kumar, Rahul, et al. 2021. Impact of SRI Components on growth and productivity of conventional and transplanted rice. Biological Forum –An International Journal 13(3): 196-199. [accessed October 13, 2021]
- Harman, Gary, et al. 2021. Benefits to plant health and productivity from enhancing plant microbial symbionts. Frontiers in Plant Science 11: 610065. doi: 10.3389/fpls.2020.610065 [accessed October 12, 2021]
- Vent, Olivia, Sabarmatee, and Norman Uphoff. 2016. The System of Rice Intensification and its impacts on women: reducing pain, discomfort, and labor in rice farming while enhancing households’ food security. In: Amber J. Fletcher and Wendee Kubik (eds)., Women in Agriculture Worldwide. Taylor & Francis. [accessed October 11, 2021]
- • Shanmugasundaram, B., N. Rose and C. Parayil. 2021. Resource use efficiency in SRI rice cultivation in Palakkad Plain Agro-ecological Zone of Kerala. Indian Research Journal of Education Extention 21(4):1-5. [accessed October 10, 2021]
New Links from our Website to Online Publications (and SRI-Related Social Media sites) - October 2021
- BSWI. 2019. Baradrone Social Welfare Institution (BSWI) 2018-2019 Annual Report. Baradrone Social Welfare Institution (BSWI) website. June 10. [BSWI SRI activity in northern West Bengal doubled the present average without relying on external inputs. In past 3 years, 4,600 farmers beat old yield record; best was by young farmer Kakon Ray, who set a new record of 17.59 tons/ha using SRI, BSWI helped bring 7,360 hectares under SRI in the last year without any project assistance other than mobilizing the farmers of Malda district.] [accessed October 10, 2021]
Documents Uploaded and New Pages Created/Updated on our Website - October 2021
- [Web pages updated during October 2021: 2021 additions, September 2021 additions (new page), DR Congo, Indonesia, Madagascar, Malaysia, Nigeria, journal articles, India journal articles, India news, India videos, SRI groups/networks, research network, videos.]
- Fisher, Lucy. 2020. September 2021 news additions to the SRI-Rice website.
Videos/Audio - October 2021
- 2021 (October 19). Budidaya padi organik metode SRI || Part 2. 3:47 min. Sudirman official channel, YouTube. [Video from Barito Kuala Regency, South Kalimantan, Indonesia. Produced originally in 2018. The SRI is integrated with Jaja Legowo practices of leaving every third row empty.]
- 2021 (October 19). Advanced SRI. Method to increase rice productivity many fold. 9:44 min. Biswajit Ghosh channel, YouTube. [In this video, the advanced SRI method is using three seedlings/hill planted at 7cm in a triangular pattern. However, the spacing between the trials is not clear.]
- 2021 (October 17). Scientific Lecture on System of Rice Intensification (SRI) - Full Package of Practices. 54:40 min. Hello Agrarian by Dr. T. Pandiaraj channel, YouTube. [Lecture by Dr. T. Pandiaraj, assistant prof at Narendra Deva University of Agriculture and Technology, Uttar Pradesh, India.]
- 2021 (October 3). काळा भात भाग - १ फायदे व उत्पादनामधील संधी , Black Rice - Scope and Importance of Cultivation. 9:31 min. Yashwant Gavhane Agri tech channel. [Marathi language video on growing black rice with SRI methods in India and the benefits of black rice.]
- 2021 (October 1). Creating generational wealth through rice farming. 12:34 min. Utmost Precision channel, YouTube. [One of Kenya's first SRI farmers, Mathew Kamanu, who grows rice in Mwea, tells his story.]
Presentations - October 2021
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[Mostly older documents this month]
- Tetra Tech. 2021. 2103 - Reduced Methane Emissions Rice Production Project in Northernof Nigerian with System of Rice Intensification (SRI). 11 slides. SRI-Rice channel, Slideshare. [This is a presentation on progress of SRI activities in the LINKS program, Catalysing Economic Growth for Northern Nigeria, which is implemented by Tetra Tech International Development] [Uploaded October 2021]
- Pay, Cheth. 2018. Women-led agriculture service team in inclusive food system programme. FAO website. [Poster about Oxfam work in Cambodia presented at the 2nd Agroecology Conference, April 3-5, FAO, Rome.] [uploaded October 17, 2021]
- Cardona, Reinaldo. 2017. 1711 - Sistema Intensivo del Cultivo del Arroz para la Producción y Sustentabilidad del Rubro. Poster presentation, SRI-Rice channel, Slideshare [Spanish language presentation on 2017 results from SRI trials from parcel 234 in Calabozo, Guarico, Venenzuela.]
- Stoop, Willem. 2016. Ecological Intensification - Lessons from SRI from Green Revolution to Agro-Ecology. 42 slides. SRI-Rice channel, Slideshare. [Presentation in December 2016 to the Agro-Ecology Group at Brussels University.]
