July 2022 - Additions to the SRI-Rice Website (Links to online material)
(See previous months acquisitions - 2013-2022)
• SRI-RICE STATISTICS for July 2022:
SRI-Rice website: 2,161 new users (2,903 users last month) from 73 countries (75 last month) logged 2,875 sessions (3,652 last month) in which 4,462 pages (5,410 last month) were viewed. [Top ten countries in order of number of new users: India (609), USA (345), China (117), Philippines (112), Nepal (79), Tanzania (66), Japan (55), Indonesia (42), Pakistan (39), Nigeria (41)]
Facebook pages: 1) SRI-Rice: 2,544 likes; 2,657 people followers. 2) SRI Equipment Innovators Exchange: 379 members. 3) SRI West Africa: 1,922 members, 4) SICA America Latina: 1,134 likes; 1,158 follows
SRI-Rice Newsletter: 72 views (89 last month)
YouTube (primary): 1,625 (1,799 last month) new views this month for our 90 uploads. 137 views (149 last month) for our 41 playlists (not including our India YouTube channel). 1,687 subscribers (12 new). 280,135 all-time views of our videos (2009-2021). 94,755 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: 1,937 followers
Slideshare: 1,748 views this month; 541 slideshows/posters total uploaded, 262 followers
Research Databases: There are 2,141 items (1,493 journal articles), in our Zotero research database (21 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 July 2022: 2022 additions, June 2022 additions (new page), Indonesia, Nigeria, Sri Lanka, Tanzania, Taiwan, Togo, events, journal articles, India journal articles, India news, India videos, research network, videos
In the Press - July 2022
- Sell produce to consumers directly: Official to farmers [Ag. director says to use SRI so as not to waste seed.]
July 29, 2022, Times of India (Tamil Nadu, India) - UPSC Essentials: One word a day – SRI
July 26, 2022, The Indian Express (India) [Unfortunately, you need a subscription to read] - Silvex trains rural women on climate smart rice parboiling and drying [Project uses SRI and partners with FCDO LINKS project and others]
July 2022, Stallion Times (Nigeria) - Amid erratic climate, Kerala's paddy cultivation dwindles, demands more irrigation [more yield, but weeds a problem]
July 22, 2022, Daijiworld.com (Kerala, India)
Blog Posts and Website Articles - accessed during July 2022
- 2022. System of Rice Intensification (SRI). Journals of India. July 28. [Compares SRI with other methods of rice production in India.]
- 2022. BALCO transforming lives of farmers. News Riveting website. July 27. [Bharat Aluminium Company (BALCO) Limited's flagship initiative, ‘Mor Jal Mor Maati’,in Chattisgarh State includes SRI andd SWI.]
- McCallum, Jennifer. 2022. Tackling food security with climate-smart rice. Apolitical website. July 25. [Great article, Jen!]
- 2020? Black Famers Rice Project website. [Jubliee Justice project covering several states in the southern USA to transform livelihoods of Black farming communities through regenerative SRI rice production.] [accessed Juy 25, 2022]
- Thompson, Claire Elise, and Marigo Farr. 2022. Surprising methane sources — and solutions. Fix Solutions Lab, Grist website. July 21. [SRI noted, especially Black Rice Project in Louisiana]
- IANS. 2022. Paddy cultivation in Kerala increasingly dependent on due to erratic climate. Weather Channel Indiawebsite. July 21.
- Verma, Anil, and Rina Devi. 2022. “I will try organic farming”: Women in Gaya make a choice. IDR website. July 19. [Story of how PRAN helped women adopt SRI in the Shekhwara village, Gaya District, Bihar, India]
- 2022. From “Obamacare” to “Biden Bucks”- [see item entitled To the mailbag, and the tragedy of Sri Lanka]. 5 Minute Forecast website. July 13. [Reader thinks the mistake of the Sri Lankan government was not to ‘go organic,’ but to do it without teaching farmers Lankan government was not to ‘go organic,’ but to do it without teaching farmers alternative methods.” They think SRI should have been promoted on a voluntary basis.]
- Bestari, Winda. Petani binaan PT Vale panen raya padi SRI Organik di Kolono. Kabupaten Morowali website. July 14. [Harvest festival of organic SRI in Kolono, Morowali Regency]
- 2022. Affrontare il nodo della giustizia climatica. Italia Fruit website. July 14. [Italian Fair Trade organization president makes note of SRI.]
- 2022? Our programs. SDC-Spanish Development Commission for African Region (SDC-FAR) website. [The agriculture program listed here says "Since January 2009, SDC-FAR has proven time and time again that SRI works. For over 10 years, it has been working to build the capacity and knowledge of rural farmers in ecologically-sound agriculture. It has increased yields and improved soil fertility, with a minimal use of chemicals." (Not clear which country in Africa though.) SDC-FAR is an African-American led non-profit international development organizations to support Central African Regional development/rehabilitation in the under developed, disaster torn and impoverished Central African Region nations.] [accessed July 1, 2022]
Latest Research / Journal Articles / Theses - links acquired during July 2022
(in order of acquisition. See also complete alphabetized list of journal articles.)
[Note: • Red dot indicates the publication is freely available.]
- Boruah, Prakshipta, et al. Water management strategies in rice fields for mitigation of Greenhouse Gasses (chapter 9), pp 75-80, in Agro-technological options for resource conservation and management, Biotech Books: New Delhi
- Sahu, Gunasagar, and Hifjur Raheman. 2022. Development of a solar energy operated weeder for wetland paddy crop. Journal of Renewable Energy and Environment (online first July 2022). doi:10.30501/jree.2022.304080.1255
- • Fefrianti, D.S., et al. 2018. The growth of rice (Oryza Sativa L.) ratoon system at various times flooding rice stump from conventional cultivation and the System of Rice Intensification (SRI). International Journal of Sciences: Basic and Applied Research 42(2):272-279 [accessed July 29, 2022]
- • Deshmukh, Ghanshyam, and R.K. Tiwari. 2011. Impact of weeders for weed management in system of rice intensification (SRI). Indian Journal of Weed Science 43(3/4): 43-44. [accessed July 29, 2022]
- • Sharma, Jyoti, et al. 2022. Novel resource conservation technologies for increasing the production and productivity of rice-wheat cropping system in Indo-Gangetic plains of India. Journal of Eco-friendly Agriculture 17(2): 235-242. doi:10.5958/2582-2683.2022.00047.8 [accessed July 29, 2022]
- • Tampubolon, Yanto Raya, et al. 2020. Iptek bagi masyarakat intuk meningkatkan ketahanan pangan: Penerapan metode SRI (System of Rice Intensification) di Kecamatan Namorambe, Kabupaten Deli Serdang, Sumatera Utara. Logista 4(2): 285-297 [accessed July 25, 2022]
- • Suryawanshi, Vijay Singh, S.B. Agrawal, and Poornima Malviya. 2022. Assessment of yield and yield attributes of rice under different crop establishment methods and nutrient management. Pharma Innovation 11(7): 2373-2376. [accessed July 25, 2022]
- Mohapatra, S., et al. 2022. Evaluation of fertilizer doses under different planting methods of rice (Oryza sativa) in west central table land zone of Odisha. Indian Journal of Agronomy 67(2): 123-128. [accessed July 17, 2022]
- Saputra, Rido. 2022. Pengembangan sistem kendali irigasi hemat air berbasis Logika Fuzzy pada implementasi System of Rice Intensification (SRI). Master of Agriculture Engineering, Gadja Mada University (Indonesia). 90p. [accessed July 9, 2022]
- • Zahari, Fadhilah, et al. 2020. Driven factors to sustainable paddy farming production in Malaysia. International Journal of Supply Chain Management 9(5): 978-983. [accessed July 6, 2022]
- • Santoso, Untung, Riza Adrianoor Saputra, et al. 2022. Pengenalan budidaya padi System of Rice Intensification (SRI) di Desa Sungai Rangas Kabupaten Banjar. Jurnal Pengabdian ILUNG (Inovasi Lahan Basah Unggul) 1(3): 114-121. doi: 10.20527/ilung.v1i3.4343 [accessed July 1, 2022]
- • Mboyerwa, Primitiva Andrea. 2018. System of Rice Intensification: Climate smart rice cultivation system for adaptation and mitigation of climate change impacts. Poster presented at the Science Forum, Cape Town, South Africa. [accessed July 1, 2022]
Documents Uploaded and New Pages Created/Updated on our Website - July 2022
- Web pages updated during July 2022: 2022 additions, June 2022 additions (new page), Indonesia, Nigeria, Sri Lanka, Tanzania, Taiwan, Togo, events, journal articles, India journal articles, India news, India videos, research network, videos
- Fisher, Lucy. 2022. June 2022 news additions to the SRI-Rice website.
Videos/Audio - July 2022
- 2022 (July). Punjab Talks [Episode 4 (4:49 min.), Episode 5 (5:57 min.), and Episode 6 (6:42 min.)]. Punjab Talks channel, YouTube. [In Punjabi (?) language. Series of three videos about using SRI methods; narrated by Kuldip SIngh Herian.]
- 2022 (July 7). SRI Farming Method (省3成！SRI水稻栽培技術). 5:31 min. Tzu Chi Culture and Communication Foundation channel, YouTube. [Mechanized SRI in Taiwan]
- 2021 (November 30). Bien préparer ses plants de riz | Système de Riziculture Intensive - Elevage+ (SRI-E+). 10:47 min. Elevages sans frontières channel. [French language video of a project in Togo by the French NGO Elevages Sans Frontières.] [accessed July 30, 2022]
Presentations - July 2022
- none this month
