January 2022 - Additions to the SRI-Rice Website (Links to online material)
(See previous months acquisitions - 2013-2021)
• SRI-RICE STATISTICS for January 2022:
SRI-Rice website: 1.915 new users (2,061 users last month) from 60 countries (61 last month) logged 2,649 sessions (2,717 last month) in which 3,947 pages (4,282 last month) were viewed. [Top ten countries in order of number of new users: India (529), USA (321), Philippines (109), China (97), Tanzania (95), UK (76), Malaysia (67), Japan (62), Indonesia (48), Nepal (48)]
Facebook pages: 1) SRI-Rice: 2,549 likes; 2,660 follows. 2) SRI Equipment Innovators Exchange: 376 members. 3) SRI West Africa: 1,935 members, 4) SICA America Latina: 1,137 likes; 1,167 follows
SRI-Rice Newsletter: 78 views (93 last month)
YouTube (primary): 1,014 (1,071 last month) new views this month for our 90 uploads. 35 views (270 last month) for our 41 playlists (not including our India YouTube channel). 1,636 subscribers. 273,789 all-time views of our videos (2009-2021). 94,048 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
Slideshare: 3,649 views this month; 540 slideshows/posters total uploaded, 258 followers
Research Databases: There are 2,045 items (1,435 journal articles), in our Zotero research database (20 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 January 2022: 2021 additions, 2022 additions, December 2021 additions (new page), events, extension material, Bangladesh, Chile, DPR Korea, Indonesia, Myanmar, Nepal, Niger, Nigeria, Philippines, Senegal, Spanish docs, Taiwan, Tanzania, Timor Leste, journal articles, India journal articles, India news, India videos, research network, SWI, SSI, videos
In the Press - January 2022
- This Black chef wants To reclaim his culture's culinary roots [Chef and farmer Matthew Raiford talks about preserving African American cooking and farming. He mentions using SRI to grow rice.]
January 31, 2022, Huffington Post (USA) - How we recorded bumper rice harvest despite poor rainfall in Kogi – Farmers [342 rice farmers from 27 Commodity Interest Groups, CIGS, in Kogi State, record bumper rice harvest despite poor rainfall due to KOGI APPEALS program, which includes SRI]
January 2, 2022, Vanguard (Kogi, Nigeria) - Mengintip uji coba tanam padi gunakan sistem tanam satu biji di Sumenep [Farmers in Totosan, Kecamatan Batang-Batang, Sumenep, Gunawan, East Java discuss their SRI success]
January 20, 2022, BangsaOnline (East Java, Indonesia) - Prospering together with rice [National Smallholder Farmers’ Association of Malawi (Nasfam) promoted SRI under a climate-smart agriculture project with support from Irish Aid.]
January 18, 2022, The Nation (Malawi) - Berikan penyuluhan ke PPL, Faperta UIR teken MOA dengan Dinas Ketahanan Pangan dan Pertanian Dumai [Universitas Islam Riau faculty train govt. extension workers in Dumai, Riau, Indonesia, in SRI and other topics.]
January 14, 2022, Katariau.com (Riau, Indonesia) - PT Vale konsisten dorong pertanian SRI Organik di area pemberdayaan (PT Vale consistently encourages Organic SRI agriculture in empowerment areas) [12th season of organic SRI trials by PT Vale's CSR project in Central Sulawesi yields 7.8 tons/ha in harvest festival by Harapan Mulya farmers' group in Libukan Mandiri Village]
January 6, 2022, Radar Sulteng (South Sulawesi, Indonesia) - Tripura: Farmers’ victory rally raises 10 demands [SRI among the 10 demand raised by farmers]
January 3, 2022, The Citizen (Tripura, India)
Blog Posts and Website Articles - accessed during January 2022
- Fookes, Alice. 2022. CSW66 – System of Rice Intensification (SRI) – Gender equality. NAWO website. January. [accessed January 27, 2022]
- *2022. WTO verdict on sugar subsidies and India's sugarcane industry. IASGYAN website. [SSI recommended]. [accessed January 27, 2022]
- *2022. Sustainable Sugarcane Initiative (SSI). Byju's website, current affairs section. [accessed January 27, 2022]
- *2020. Sustainable Sugarcane Initiative (SSI) in sugarcane cultivation. Easgri.info website. November 10. [accessed January 27, 2022]
- Padhee, Arabinda K., and Anthony Whitbread. 2022. Indian agriculture: The route post-CoP 26. Down to Earth blog. January 18. [Strategies to make Indian agriculture resilient and sustainable in a changing climate. Brief mention of SRI. This story has been corrected to reflect that India did not sign the Sustainable Agriculture Policy Action Agenda].
- Brown. 2022. What you need to know about the environmental impacts of rice production. ePrimeFeed. January 14.
- Shrestha, Aavash. 2022. System of Rice Intensification (SRI). Agriculture Student Liaison Forum (ASLF) blog. January 7. [Student blogger covers SRI progress in Morang, Nepal.]
Latest Research / Journal Articles / Theses - links acquired during January 2022
(in order of acquisition. See also complete alphabetized list of journal articles.)
[Note: • Red dot indicates the publication is freely available.]
- • Diédhiou, Pierre Claver César. 2019. Etude comparative des rendements et de la rentabilité du Système de Riziculture Intensif (SRI) et du Système Traditionnel dans le département de Ziguinchor. Université Assane Seck de Ziguinchor (UASZ)(Senegal). [accessed January 23, 2022]
- • Dione, Moudo. 2019. L’impact du système de riziculture intensive (SRI) sur le rendement des riziculteurs de Matam. Université Assane Seck de Ziguinchor (UASZ) (Senegal). [accessed January 23, 2022]
- *Manikandan, M., and G. Thiyagarajan. 2021. Study on irrigation and fertigation scheduling for Sustainable Sugarcane Initiative (SSI) through subsurface drip irrigation. Cutting-Edge Research in Agricultural Sciences 13: 55–61. doi:10.9734/bpi/cras/v13/11364D [accessed January 22, 2022]
- • Ferichani, M. 2013. The potential of Ettawa goat manure and urine management to support the productive and sustainable farming. Journal of Crop and Weed 9(2): 76-80 [accessed January 20, 2022]
- • Nuryanti, Dewi Marwati, and Kisan Kisan. 2021. Tingkat adopsi petani terhadap inovasi budidaya padi dengan System of Rice Intensification (SRI). Journal TABARO Agriculture Science 5(2): 627-638. [accessed January 20, 2022]
- • Samidjo, G. S., A. Astuti, and M. Mulyono. 2022. Peningkatan kapasitas petani Muhammadiyah dalam seleksi benih pada budidaya padi System of Rice Intensification. PengabdianMu: Jurnal Ilmiah Pengabdian Kepada Masyarakat7(1). doi:10.33084/pengabdianmu.v7i1.3016 [accessed January 19, 2021]
- • Santika, Sanan. 2022. The Influence of various weeding times and spacing on rice yields (Oryza sativa L.) Ciherang cultivars with the SRI cultivation system (System of Rice Intensification). Program Studi Agroteknologi, Fakultas Pertanian Universitas Garut, Indonesia. (Student paper). 10p.
- • Arif, Chusnul, et al. 2022. A model of evapotranspirative irrigation to manage the various water levels in the System of Rice Intensification (SRI) and its effect on crop and water productivities. Water 14(2): 170. doi:10.3390/w14020170
- • Doni, Febri,et al. 2022. Microbial contributions for rice production: From conventional crop management to the use of ‘Omics’ technologies. International Journal of Molecular Sciences 23(2): 737. 10.3390/ijms23020737 [accessed January 11, 2021]
- Effendi, Arman. 2022. The effect of oil palm empty fruit bunches on rice production (Oryza sativa L.) with a flood height of 10 cm below soil surface. JUATIK - Jurnal Agronomi Tanaman Tropika 4(1): 177-190. [accessed January 11, 2021]
- Vicente, Eriglio Ferreira. 2013. Community development methods toward food security: The System of Rice Intensification in Zumalai Sub-District Covalima, Timor Leste. MSc thesis, University of the Philippines, Los Banos. 198 p. [accessed January 10, 2022]
- Chiu, Hsin-Piao, et al. 2022. The assessment of rill irrigation and perforated pipes for lowland paddy rice under the system of rice intensification (SRI). Paddy and Water Environment. doi:10.1007/s10333-021-00879-y [accessed January 7, 2022]
- Mwidege, Asheri, and Zacharia Katambara. 2021. Does the system of rice intensification a panacea to smallholder farmers? A case of Mkindo village irrigation scheme in Tanzania. International Journal of Agriculture Innovation, Technology and Globalisation 2(2): 138-156. doi:10.1504/IJAITG.2021.119707 [accessed January 7, 2022]
- • Duary, Swarnali, Tufleuddin Biswas and Amit Biswas. 2021. System of Rice Intensification - A new approach of rice cultivation. Indian Journal of Natural Sciences 12(69): 37424-37429. [accessed January 1, 2022]
New Links from our Website to Online Publications (and SRI-Related Social Media sites) - January 2022
- Biswas, Saikat, and Rupa. 2021. System of Wheat Intensification (SWI). Agriculture and Food: E-Newsletter 3(5): 175-178 (Article ID: 10858). May. [accessed January 2022]
- PASSIP. 2022. Curriculum d’apprentissage en production et post-production du riz : Module 15 Système de Riziculture Intensive (SRI). PASSIP website. [French language module on SRI methods by the Programme d’Appui au Sous-secteur de l’Irrigation de Proximité (PASSIP) in Mali] [accessed January 2022]
- Haougui, Adamou, et al. 2019. Mise à l’échelle de Système de Riziculture Intensive (SRI) hors aménagement. DUDDAL website. [accessed January 2022]
Documents Uploaded and New Pages Created/Updated on our Website - January 2022
- [Web pages updated during January 2022: 2021 additions, 2022 additions, December 2021 additions (new page), events, extension material, Bangladesh, Chile, DPR Korea, Indonesia, Myanmar, Nepal, Niger, Nigeria, Philippines, Senegal, Spanish docs, Taiwan, Tanzania, Timor Leste, journal articles, India journal articles, India news, India videos, research network, SWI, SSI, videos]
- Fisher, Lucy. 2020. December 2021 news additions to the SRI-Rice website.
Videos/Audio - January 2022
- 2022 (January 27). Rendicion de Cuentas del IICA Chile 2021. 7:13 min. IICA-Chile channel, YouTube. ["Conoce las 10 acciones de cooperactón técnica más destacadas del 2021." This Spanish language video describes major activities of the IICA Chile office during 2021. The first one talks about trying the System of Rice Intensification (SRI) on a commercial scale.]
- 2022 (January 25). SRI method (System of Rice Intensification) || technical farmer || rice cultivation ||. 7:45 min. Technical farmer channel, YouTube. [Hindi language introductory video]
- 2021. Crop Intensification System - Mark Fulford. Digging in the Dirt program, 30.00 min. podcast hosted by Kevin Gallagher on Sounder.fm. [Interview with Mark Fulford that highlights SRI/SCI] [accessed January 23, 2022].
- 2022 (January 18). Rice Production on SRI System.14:36 min. kutub uddin green agriculture channel, YouTube. [Bengali language training on SRI in Koyra Upazila Khulna, Bangladesh.]
- 2022 (January 6). Rice cultivation using the System of Rice Intensification method in Kayin State, Myanmar. 9:10 min. LWF Learning Management channel, YouTube. [In 2019, the Lutheran World Federation Myanmar and its partners in the Alliance of Churches Together (ACT Alliance) introduced a more climate-resilient method of rice cultivation called the “System of Rice Intensification SRI to farmers in Kayin State, Myanmar. Here farmers are talking about the program.]
- 2022 (January 9). System of Rice Intensification. 12:35 min. Harish Kumar R K M channel, YouTube. [Tamil language instructional video on SRI]
Presentations - January 2022
- Witkowski, Kelly, and Fernando Barrera. 2022. El Sistema Intensivo del Cultivo de Arroz. Online presentation by Instituto Interamericano de Cooperación para la Agricultura on January 24, 2022. 56 slides. SRI-Rice channel, Slideshare. [uploaded January 31, 2022]
