June 2022 - Additions to the SRI-Rice Website (Links to online material)
(See previous months acquisitions - 2013-2022)
• SRI-RICE STATISTICS for June 2022:
SRI-Rice website: 2,903 new users (2,251 users last month) from 75 countries (69 last month) logged 3,652 sessions (3,152 last month) in which 5,410 pages (4,788 last month) were viewed. [Top ten countries in order of number of new users: India (1,219), USA (235), Philippines (152), China (122), Tanzania (115), Nepal (90), Indonesia (70), Sri Lanka (67), Pakistan (59), Malaysia (60)]
Facebook pages: 1) SRI-Rice: 2,543 likes; 2,613 people followers. 2) SRI Equipment Innovators Exchange: 379 members. 3) SRI West Africa: 1,926 members, 4) SICA America Latina: 1,131 likes; 1,155 follows
SRI-Rice Newsletter: 89 views (230 last month)
YouTube (primary): 1,799 (1,250 last month) new views this month for our 90 uploads. 149 views (61 last month) for our 41 playlists (not including our India YouTube channel). 1,675 subscribers (8 new). 279,366 all-time views of our videos (2009-2021). 94,648 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: 1,938 followers (3 new)
Slideshare: 7,071 views this month; 541 slideshows/posters total uploaded, 261 followers
Research Databases: There are 2,120 items (1,480 journal articles), in our Zotero research database (18 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 June 2022: 2022 additions, May 2022 additions (new page), Bangldesh, Côte d'Ivoire, DR Congo, Guinea, Indonesia, Madagascar, Myanmar, Senegal, Sri Lanka, Tanzania, Thailand, Togo, Vietnam, events, journal articles, India journal articles, India news, India videos, research network, videos
In the Press - June 2022
- 'Rice hometown' Thái Bình Province strives to enhance rice quality, branding [In 2020, the cultivated area of Thái Bình Province applying IPM and SRI reached nearly 45% of the total planting area, helping farmers reduce production costs and increase profits]
June 29, 2022, EIN NewsWires (Thái Bình, Vietnam) - Lebih menguntungkan, petani Manggis budidayakan padi salibu [Farmers in Karangasem, Bali, find success with SRI ratooning.]
June 27, 2022, Bali Ekbis (Bali, Indonesia) - SRI paves way through India’s rising water scarcity
June 24, 2022, Chronicle Times (Punjab, India) - Kapolda Sulsel sebut pengelolaan lingkungan PT Vale patut dicontoh [More govt. accolades for PT Vale's SRI project]
June 15, 2022, Teraskabar.id (South Sulawesi, Indonesia) - Water management in paddy cultivation
June 14, 2022, E-PAO (Manipur, India) - Des producteurs du riz et du soja de l’Ogou et de l’Amou en formation à Gleï [Rice producers from the Ogou and Amou prefectures in Togo are taking part in a training workshop featuring SRI and other land management issues.]
June 9, 2022, Atop (Togo) - SRI Organik PT Vale, harapan baru pertanian produktif-ramah lingkungan di Pomalaa [First harvest of SRI Organic (PT Vale CSR program) in Baula District, Kolaka Regency, South Sulawesi shows 8.36 tons/ha in 4 villages.]
June 3, 2022, SINDOnews (Sulawesi Selatan, Indonesia) - Climate Lab proving to be a game changer for farmers [Tamil Nadu SRI farmer reports on weather program]
June 2, 2022, The Hindu (Tamil Nadu, India) - Don't make Punjab a junkyard for machines [Brief mention of SRI as an innovation not always requiring big equipment]
June 2, 2022, The Tribune (Punjab India) - Bukti PT Vale rawat kelestarian lingkungan, panen perdana SRI Organik di Blok Bahodopi
June 1, 2022, Sulsel by Fajar (South Sulawesi, Indonesia) - Water released for irrigation [Cooperation Minister I. Periyasamy released the water for the kuruvai crop in the double crop areas are Tamil Nadu and urged farmers to adopt SRI.]
June 1, 2022, The Hindu (Tamil Nadu, India)
Blog Posts and Website Articles - accessed during June 2022
- Boonkerd, Nanthakorn. เทคนิคการปลูกข้าวต้นเดี่ยวโดยใช้แหนแดงและปุ๋ยอินทรีย์ชีวภาพในการปลูกข้าวต้นเดี่ยวระบบ มทส.(Azolla & BOF-System of Rice Intensification, SRI). Technology Clinic of the Community website. [Thai instructions of using Azolla and bio-organic fertilizer (BOF) with SRI] [accessed June 30, 2022]
- 2022. From ECHO's interns. ECHO website. June. [Interns at ECHO's main office weigh in on their experiences learning about SRI] [accessed June 30, 2022]
- 2022. Healthy rice plant, fresh environment, and better farmer thanks to SRI. Nong Nghiep Vietnam website. June 27. [By spring 2022, over 70% of Hanoi's 83,000 ha of rice land have implemented partial SRI and around 6 percent have adopted complete SRI.]
- Fromartz, Samuel. 2022. Back forty: Why soil matters. The Food and Environment Reporting Network. June 28. [A review of David Montgomery and Anne Biklé book, “What Your Food Ate: How to Heal our Land and Reclaim our Health” which cites SRI as an example.]
- System of Rice Intensification (SRI) Workshop announcement. ECHO website. [Event to be held July 22, 2022 at ECHO Asia Small Farm Resource Center (ศูนย์ฝึกอบรม และธนาคารเมล็ดพันธ์ุเอคโค่), Chiang Mai, Thailand (ประเทศไทย).] [accessed June 27, 2022]
- Tekale, Nagesh. 2022. त्रिपुरातील शेतीला ‘एसआरआय’ पद्धतीचे वरदान (Bounty of 'SRI' method to agriculture in Tripura). Agrowon website. June 12. [Story of SRI in Tripura.] [See English translation]
- Lotus Foods. 2022. Lotus Foods releases impact report, highlighting the company's mission to change the way rice is grown. Cision PR Newswire website. June 7.
- 2022? Game changing rice culture empowers rural women to ensure food security in South Odisha. Women Gender Constituency website. [Pragati Koruput in India cited a honoree in Women Gender Constituency's awards for "Gender Just Climate Solutions." More than 40,000 farmers are adopting the improved technologies like System of Rice and Millet Intensification through Pragati Koruput's programs in South Odisha, India.] [accessed June 6, 2022]
- 2022. SPR 2022: Sustainable Agriculture technologies. Samajho website. May. [The pros and cons of almost any Sustainable Agriculture methodology you can think of, including SRI. This is a prep site for Indian Civil Service exams.] [accessed June 6, 2022]
- Haidar, M. 2022. Langkah dan tahapan budidaya padi organik dengan metode SRI. Karawang Post. June 2. [Steps and stages of organic rice cultivation with the SRI Method]
Latest Research / Journal Articles / Theses - links acquired during June 2022
(in order of acquisition. See also complete alphabetized list of journal articles.)
[Note: • Red dot indicates the publication is freely available.]
- Murugaraj, G. S. Selva Kumar, Anju.S. Pillai, et al. 2022. Implementation of in-row weeding robot with novel wheel, assembly and wheel angle adjustment for slurry paddy field. Materials Today: Proceedings (in press). doi:10.1016/j.matpr.2022.06.118 [accessed June 30, 2022]
- • Maftukhah, Rizki, et al. 2022. Contrasting rice management systems – Site-specific effects on soil parameters. Eurasian Journal of Soil Science 11(3): 225-233. doi:10.18393/ejss.1064317 [accessed June 29, 2022]
- • Aseru, Gloria, et al. 2022. Effects of integrating deficit irrigation and carbonate foliar fertilizers into the System of Rice Intensification on growth and yield: A case study of Mkindo Irrigation Scheme, Tanzania. International Journal of Basic and Applied Sciences 11(2): 26-36 [accessed June 28, 2022]
- • Dass, Anchal and Shiva Dhar. 2014. Irrigation management for improving productivity nutrient uptake and water-use efficiency in system of rice intensification: a review. Annals of Agricultural Research 35(2): 107-122. [accessed June 28, 2022]
- Shivay, Yashbir Singh, et al. 2022. Cyanobacterial inoculation enhances nutrient use efficiency and grain quality of Basmati rice in the System of Rice Intensification. ACS Agricultural Science & Technology (online first June 21, 2022). doi:10.1021/acsagscitech.2c00030 [accessed June 26, 2022]
- • Nugroho, B.D.A., et al. 2022. The effect of plant densities in System of Rice Intensification (SRI) method to water productivity of paddy field in East Sumba, East Nusa Tenggara. IOP Conference Series: Earth and Environmental Science 1038: 012003 [accessed June 23, 2022]
- • Sunadi, M. Z. H. Utama, and B. Badal. 2021. The productivity of paddy rice with the method of five seedlings clump-1 STSS used PHP mulch and furrow irrigation compared with several cultivation technology packages. IOP Conference Series: Earth and Environmental Science 741: 012014. [accessed June 24, 2022]
- • Kesh, Hari, and Ram Khushi. 2022. Performance of basmati rice (Oryza sativa L.) genotypes under different crop establishment methods. Genetika 54(1): 27-42. doi:10.2298/GENSR2201027K [accessed June 23, 2022]
- • Glover, Dominic. 2022. Affordances and agricultural technology. Journal of Rural Studies 94:73-82. [accessed June 21, 2022]
- • Geum, Dong-Hyeok (금동혁 ((주)이엠연구소), and Sin, Min-Hwan (신민환 ((주)이엠연구소). 2022. Contribution to water conservation and carbon reduction through water management in paddy fields 논에서의 물관리를 통한 물절약 및 탄소저감 기여 방안. Magazine of the Korean Society of Agricultural Engineers (한국농공학회지) 64(2): 20-27 [accessed June 18, 2022]
- • Pandey, Aviral. 2017. Determinants of System of Root Intensification (SRI) method in Bihar State, India. Journal of Community Positive Practices 17(2): 3-16 [accessed June 13, 2022]
- • Shukuru, N.B. and T.S. Archana. 2021. Effectiveness of transplant date and sowing density related to tillering capacity of rice (Oryza sativa L.). Journal of Global Agriculture and Ecology 12(4): 31-42. [research in DR Congo] [accessed June 13, 2022]
- Senthilkumar, Kalimuthu. 2022. Closing rice yield gaps in Africa requires integration of good agricultural practices. Field Crops Research 285: 108591. doi:10.1016/j.fcr.2022.108591 [accessed June 13, 2022]
- Nayak, A.K., et al. 2022. Carbon and water footprint of rice, wheat & maize crop productions in India. Pedoshphere (in press). doi:10.1016/j.pedsph.2022.06.045 [accessed June 13, 2022]
- • Weerasooriya, G.V.T.V. 2022. Development of power weeder for 3 row-planted paddy. International Journal of Research and Innovation in Applied Science 7(3): 63-76. [accessed June 13, 2022]
- • Tong, Lan Anh, Mehmet Ali Ulubaşoğlu, and Cahit Guven. 2022. Growing more rice with less water: the System of Rice Intensification and water productivity in Vietnam. Australian Journal of Agricultural and Resource Economics 59: 1–31 (online early) doi:10.1111/1467-8489.12477 [accessed June 3, 2022]
- • Rainiyati and Andika Aryanda. 2015. Pengaruh pemberian kombinasi pestisida nabati terhadap hasil tanaman padi (Oryza sativa L.) varietas Inpara-3 secara SRI (The System of Rice Intensification). Bioplantae 1(1): 21-26. [accessed June 3, 2022]
Documents Uploaded and New Pages Created/Updated on our Website - June 2022
- Web pages updated during June 2022: 2022 additions, May 2022 additions (new page), Bangldesh, Côte d'Ivoire, DR Congo, Guinea, Indonesia, Madagascar, Myanmar, Senegal, Sri Lanka, Tanzania, Thailand, Togo, Vietnam, events, journal articles, India journal articles, India news, India videos, research network, videos
- Fisher, Lucy. 2022. May 2022 news additions to the SRI-Rice website.
New Links from our Website to Online Publications (and SRI-Related Social Media sites) - June 2022
(see also Latest Research above)
- 2022? Dossier thématique avenir: Résilience face au changement climatique. CGIAR (Bioversity/CIAT Alliance) website. 4p. [Le projet d’Adaptation et de Valorisation Entrepreneuriales en Irrigation Rurale et agricole (AVENIR) in Senegal. A box on SRI is included. AVENIR's SRI work is located in the Tambacounda and Sédhiou regions of Senegal.][accessed June 30, 2022]
- 2020. စပါးအစွမ်းဖွင့်စိုက်ပျိုးရေး လယ်သမားလက်စွဲစာအုပ် (Farmer's Handbook on System of Rice Intensification - SRI). Purchase for US$4 from Myanmar Book Shop. [accessed June 30, 2022]
- Pal, B. D., and N. K. Tyagi. 2022. Synthesis Report: Scaling-Up Climate Smart Agriculture in South Asia. New Delhi, India: International Food Policy Research Institute – South Asia Regional Office. [Finds SRI good in some areas, not acceptable in others.] [accessed June 8, 2022]
- 2020. Rapport Annuel d’activités: Année 2019. TRIAS website. [See p.19 for information on Trias' SRI project in Guinea.]
Videos/Audio - June 2022
- 2021 (July 14). System of Rice Intensification (SRI) method. 6:43 min. Green Fem channel. [Sinhala language video about SRI work in Sri Lanka by Green Fem group.] [accessed June 30, 2022]
- 2022 (June 25). SRI Method at CEP Manikganj. 5:32 min. ADRA Bangladesh channel, YouTube. [Community Empowerment Project (CEP) – Daulatpur, Manikgan, in Bangladesh, set up four SRI demonstration plots in three Unions (Jionpur, Chakmirpur, and Kalia) under Daulatpur; 188 farmers have implemented the SRI on 21.132 ha.]
- 2022 (June 23). Punjab Talks SRI System Episode 5- Dr. Kuldip Singh Herian. 5:57 min. Punjab Talks channel, YouTube. [Punjabi language radio show clip by Dr. Kuldip Singh.]
- 2022. The Intensive Rice System (SRI), less expensive and more profitable. 4:55 min. Agribusiness TV channel, YouTube. [French with English subtitles. SRI in Côte d'Ivoire, with focus on Marcel Yao Kouakou, a model SRI farmer.]
- 2022 (June 11). Pengakuan Pak Sonda, Petani yang Menanam Padi Dengan SRI Organic, Caranya Wah, Hasilnya Melimpah. 10 min. ALIKSA AGROMEDIA channel, YouTube. [Interview with farmer who switched to organic SRI production extended by Aliksa Organic SRI Consultant in Melili, South Susawesi, Indonesia, through PT Vale's CSR program.]
- 2022 (June 9). SRI (System of Rice Intensification) SRI ধান খেতি SeSTA's SRI intervention in NE india #sesta. 10:14 min. Baar Vlogs channel, YouTube. [SRI experiences in NE India by Seven Sisters Development Assistance (SeSTA), an NGO that collectivizes women to form Self Help Groups (SHGs). This is a duplicate of SeSTA's 2021 video]
- 2022 (June 7). Pola Tanam dan Tanam Padi (SRI). 5:12 min. Voice of Nature Indonesia channel, YouTube. [Shows markers and planting of SRI.]
- 2022 (June 4). Le Système de Riziculture Intensive à la rizière Sainte-Anne, Imady. Esperanza Joie des enfants channel, YouTube. [Interview with rice farmer about SRI in Saint-Marie, Imady, Madagascar (in French).]
Presentations - June 2022
- Potjanathamrongpong, Anochao, and Hanni Oppel. 2021. Introduction to SRI. 33 slides. Presentation at 2021 ECHO Asia SRI Workshop and Harvesting Day, November 26, 2021, at the ECHO Asia Small Farm Resource Center. [accessed June 30, 2022]
- ECHO Asia staff. 2021. Introduction to SRI. 58 slides. Presentation at ECHO's SRI workshop, July 2021, at the ECHO Asia Small Farm Resource Center. [accessed June 30, 2022]
