December 2022 - Additions to the SRI-Rice Website (Links to online material)
(See previous months acquisitions - 2013-2022)
• SRI-RICE STATISTICS for December 2022:
SRI-Rice website: 1,933 new users (2,016 users last month) from 81* countries (76 last month) logged 2,510 sessions (2,863 last month) in which 3775 pages (4,520 last month) were viewed. [Top ten countries in order of number of new users: India (685), USA (305), Philippines (87), China (83), Japan (60), Nepal (58), Indonesia (48),Tanzania (47), UK (41), Canada (27)]
* # of countries now includes those with 3 or more people visiting/month regardless of time spent on site or pages viewed
Facebook pages: 1) SRI-Rice: 2,602 followers. 2) SRI Equipment Innovators Exchange: 393 members. 3) SRI West Africa: 1,822 members, 4) SICA America Latina: 1,156 follows 5) SRI en las Américas: 72 members
SRI-Rice Newsletter: 63 views (130 last month)
YouTube (primary): 769 (859 last month) new views this month for our 90 uploads. 67 views (81 last month) for our 41 playlists (not including our India YouTube channel). 1,722 subscribers. 285,596 all-time views of our videos (2009-2022). 95,144 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: 1,969 followers
Slideshare: 1,200 views this month; 543 slideshows/posters total uploaded, 263 followers
Research Databases: There are 2,203 items (1,530 journal articles), in our Zotero research database (7 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 2022: 2022 additions, November 2022 additions (new page), finger millet page, Indonesia, Iraq, Madagascar, Mali, Tanzania, Vietnam, events, journal articles, India journal articles, India news, India videos, theses, videos
In the Press - December 2022
- Apresiasi alumni berprestasi, Himpunan Alumni IPB gelar HA IPB Awards 2022 [Alumni Awards at Insitut Pertanian Bogor include Ida Bagus Gede Arsana, farmer and
director of Bali SRI organik enterprise, for his work on organic SRI in Bali.]
December 27, 2022, Media Indonesia (Bogor, Indonesia) - PT Vale alokasikan CSR Rp451 Miliar [There are 53 ha. of SRI in 4 districts of Luwu Timur, South Sulawesi.]
December 26, 2022, Metro Sulawesi (Central Sulawesi, Indonesia) - PT. Vale edukasi petani Puuroda dan Puubangga kembangkan padi organik [Update of PT Vale's CSR efforts with organic SRI in South Sulawesi, Indonesia]
December 20, 2022, Kendari Pos South Sulawesi, Indonesia) - Madagascar: Périmètres agricoles - 100 000 ha de terrain réhabilités [SRI implemented on 101,600 ha for three years, enabled Madagascar to improve its productivity to 5 tons per ha in 2 regions.]
December 23, 2022, AllAfrica.com (Madagascar) - Di NTT, dosen IPB kenalkan budidaya SRI yang hemat air [Profs from two univerisities in Java are studying SRI in Sumba Timur, NTT, in order to save water]
December 7, 2022, Kompas (Re: Sumba Timur, Indonesia) - Plans underway to benefit from lucrative regional rice market
December 5, 2022, Daily News (Tanzania)
Blog Posts and Website Articles - accessed during December 2022
- FAR. 2022. Mali / Formation des producteurs et productrices de riz en Système de Riziculture Intensive (SRI). Le Réseau International Formation Agricole et Rurale (FAR) website. October 4. [accessed December 31, 2022] [5 local Irrigation Training Centers, including CFASPAM, have started training more than 100 intermediary actors and 7,800 producers on the practice of SRI and pest management. The objective is to strengthen the skills of rice producers in the rice-growing basins, in particular the Central Niger Delta and specifically in Mali's Mopti region.]
- 2022. Why India refused to sign the ‘Methane Pledge’ : Daily Current Affairs. Dhyeya IAS website. December 27. [An interesting set of reasons not to sign the Methane Pledge. However, SRI is promoted as what India can do to reduce methane emissions.]
- *Panda, Luna, and Sagarika Mishra. 2022. Good practices 55 - From farm to market – Pragati’s journey with finger millet farmers. Agriculture in South Asia website. December 22. [Article on System of Finger Millet Intensification (SFMI) in Odisha, India]
- 2022. Transition from subsistence farming to commercial farming. NorgesVel website. [Norwegian NGO experience with SRI in Tanzania] [accessed December 23, 2022]
- Yenkasa. 2022. Social Capital proves critical to success of System of Rice Intensification (SRI) farming in Tanzania. Yenkasa Africa. December 16.
- Paliath, Shreehari. 2022. 'India must develop an ecosystem-centric approach for agriculture'. IndiaSpend website. December 16. [Not much about SRI, but the context in which it exists]
- Gulden, Kathrine Torday. 2022. NIBIO and TARI to collaborate on climate-smart rice production system in Tanzania. NIBIO website. December 2. [Norwegian Institute of Bioeconomy Research (NIBIO) and Tanzania Agricultural Research Institute (TARI) will collaborate on project involving 4000 rice farmers in the five districts in Tanzania.
Latest Research / Journal Articles / Theses - links acquired during December 2022
(in order of acquisition. See also complete alphabetized list of journal articles.)
[Note: • Red dot indicates the publication is freely available.]
- • Sreeni, K.R. 2022. Sarvathobhadram-Organic Initiative: Cooperative model for resilient agriculture by adopting System of Rice Intensification. Journal of Rice Research 10: 337 [accessed December 29, 2022]
- • Sutowo, Irpan Ripa'i, and Zayyin Abdul Quddus. 2022. Farmers perception about organic rice agriculture System of Rice Intensification (SRI) method for sustainability farming business and environmental, In Proceedings of International Conference on Communication Science (ICCS) 2(1): 17-21. [accessed December 26, 2022]
- • Kesh, Hari, Khushi Ram Battan, Deepesh Kumar, and Prashant Kaushik. 2022. Genotype and environment interaction analysis for quality traits in Basmati rice. Indian Journal of Traditional Knowledge 21(4): 905-911. doi:10.56042/ijtk.v21i4.31416 [accessed December 24, 2022]
- • Kerketta, A., S. K. Patra, P. Ray, and R. K. Raj. 2022. Knowledge gap causing discontinuance of SRI: A study in tribal region of Odisha. Asian Journal of Agricultural Extension, Economics & Sociology 40(11): 478-483. doi:10.9734/ajaees/2022/. [accessed December 24, 2022]
- Midde, Sai Kumar, Perumal, M. S., G, Murugan, and R. Sudhagar. 2022. Performance of different sources of nitrogen under different establishment methods of rice (Oryza sativa). Crop Research 57(5&6): 292-296. doi:10.31830/2454-1761.2022.CR-873 [accessed December 23, 2022]
- • Nguyen, Hang Thi Thuy, and Pham Xuan Hung. 2022. Determinants of System of Rice Intensification adoption and its impacts on rice yield in the upland region of Central Vietnam. Asian Journal of Agriculture and Rural Development 12(4): 306-315. doi:10.55493/5005.v12i4.4677 [accessed December 23, 2022]
- • Hardy, Harrison, Richard Hopkins, Ladslaus Mnyone, and Frances M. Hawkes. 2022. Manure and mosquitoes: life history traits of two malaria vector species enhanced by larval exposure to cow dung, whilst chicken dung has a strong negative effect. Parasites & Vectors 15(1): 472. doi:10.1186/s13071-022-05601-3 [accessed December 19, 2022]
- • Takahashi, Kazushi. 2022. A UFO? Assessment of System of Rice Intensification from the agricultural economics perspective. pp 87–97 (Chapter 7) in J. P. Estudillo et al. (eds.), Agricultural Development in Asia and Africa, Emerging-Economy State and International Policy Studies [December 4, 2022]
Links to Online Publications and Websites - December 2022
- Rajoelisolo, Kotondrajaona. 2022. Système de Riziculture Intensive. SIA OmniScriptum Publishing. €39,90 [accessed December 27, 2022]
- Trang, Vu H., et al. 2022. Rice cultivation ambition in the new and updated Nationally Determined Contributions: 2020-2022. InfoNote: Climate Change, Agriculture and Food Security Research Program. CGIAR website. Updated October 2022. [accessed December 7, 2022]
Documents Uploaded and New Pages Created/Updated on our Website - December 2022
- Web pages updated during December 2022: 2022 additions, November 2022 additions (new page), finger millet, Indonesia, Iraq, Madagascar, Mali, Tanzania, Vietnam, events, journal articles, India journal articles, India news, India videos, theses, videos
- Fisher, Lucy. 2022. November 2022 news additions to the SRI-Rice website.
Videos/Audio - December 2022
- 2022 (December 31). SRI rice intensifications in traditional way to improve yield. 4:11 min. Khan Baba channel, YouTube. [Features drum seeder and furrow-maker for direct-seeding. Not sure where this is from.]
- 2022 (December 27). Journey of System of Rice Intensification (SRI) with Motivation Song Ashayein (Movie - Iqbal). 4:19 min. Rupesh Jain channel, YouTube. [Indian video showing SRI progress to music.]
- 2022 (December). SRI Cultivation in East Jorhat Block, Assam I SeSTA I Rice Cultivation I Women Farmers. 2:08 min. Seven Sisters Development Assistance (SeSTA) channel, YouTube.
Presentations - December 2022
- Fisher, Lucy. 2022. Overview of the System of Rice Intensiciation (SRI) Around the World. Presentation at the International Conference on System of Crop Intensification for Climate-Smart Livelihood and Nutritional Security, Hyderabad, India, December 12-14, 2022. [uploaded December 30, 2022]
- Hameed, Khidhir Abbas. 2022. Estimated Water Savings, Yield, and Income Benefits from Using SRI Methods from Using SRI in Iraq. Presentation at the International Conference on System of Crop Intensification for Climate-Smart Livelihood and Nutritional Security, Hyderabad, India, December 12-14, 2022. [uploaded December 28, 2022]
- Rosenzweig, Cynthia, and Sonali Shukla McDermid. 2022. AgMIP Integrated Assessments in South Asia. 16 slides. Presentation at the ADBI Annual Conference 2022, November 28, 2022. [accessed December 25, 2022]
