March 2022 - Additions to the SRI-Rice Website (Links to online material)
(See previous months acquisitions - 2013-2022)
• SRI-RICE STATISTICS for March 2022:
SRI-Rice website: 2,293 new users (2,062 users last month) from 75 countries (65 last month) logged 3,204 sessions (2,728 last month) in which 5,245 pages (4,278 last month) were viewed. [Top ten countries in order of number of new users: India (529), USA (381), China (208), Philippines (123), Tanzania (82), Japan (64), Nepal (55), Australia (53), Indonesia (52), UK (50),]
Facebook pages: 1) SRI-Rice: 2,553 likes; 2,664 follows. 2) SRI Equipment Innovators Exchange: 377 members. 3) SRI West Africa: 1,932 members, 4) SICA America Latina: 1,137 likes; 1,167 follows
SRI-Rice Newsletter: 82 views (128 last month)
YouTube (primary): 687 (877 last month) new views this month for our 90 uploads. 103 views (218 last month) for our 41 playlists (not including our India YouTube channel). 1,648 subscribers (3 new). 275,415 all-time views of our videos (2009-2021).94,385 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: 1,922 followers
Slideshare: 9,640 views this month; 541 slideshows/posters total uploaded, 259 followers
Research Databases: There are 2,079 items (1,453 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 March 2022: SRI-Rice web pages updated during March 2022: 2022 additions, February 2021 additions (new page), events, Cameroon, Chile, The Gambia, Indonesia, Myanmar, Nepal, journal articles, India journal articles, India news, India videos, research network, theses, videos
In the Press - March 2022
- ADDA is helping rural farmers to become self-sustainable in a changing world [Danish NGO ADDA includes SRI in Climate Smart project in North Vietnam]
[Retrieved March 25, 2022] August 9, 2021, ScanAsia (Vietnam) - PT Vale perluas program SRI Organik di Bahomotefe-Bahomoahi [PT Vale's CSR SRI program expands in Morowali Regency, Sulawesi Tengah, Indonesia,extends to Bahomotefe-Bahomoahi]
March 22, 2022, Sulteng Metro (Cenral Sulawesi, Indonesia) - Modern Farming: Goa's Visakha adopts modern farming, specializes in SRI technology
March 15, 2022, Kisan of India (Goa, India) [Original: Modern Farming: गोवा की विशाखा ने अपनाई आधुनिक खेती, SRI तकनीक में माहिर
Blog Posts and Website Articles - accessed during March 2022
- 2022. Vietnam fertilizer market - Growth, trends, COVID-19 impact, and forecasts (2022 - 2027). Mordor Intelligence website. [In the middle of a fertilizer report, they cite an Apolitical article that notes "the SRI was named as a 2020 climate policy 'breakthrough' for government initiatives to increase agricultural production in Vietnam while reducing methane emissions from rice fields".
- LWF. LWF Myanmar: innovative techniques for rice farmers. Lutheran World Federation website. March 3. [Lutheran World Federation's SRI projects provided training on SRI for local farmers in Myanmar since 2019. See also video on SRI project in Kayin State.]
Latest Research / Journal Articles / Theses - links acquired during March 2022
(in order of acquisition. See also complete alphabetized list of journal articles.)
[Note: • Red dot indicates the publication is freely available.]
- • Arif, Chusnul, Budi Indra Setiawan, and Masaru Mizoguchi. 2014. Penentuan kelembaban tanah optimum untuk budidaya padi sawah SRI (System of Rice Intensification) menggunakan algoritma genetika [Determining optimal soil moisture for System of Rice Intensification paddy field using genetic algorithms]. Jurnal Irigasi 9(1): 29-40. doi: 10.31028/ji.v9.i1.29-40 [accessed March 30, 2022]
- • Mboyerwa, Primitiva Andrea, et al. 2022. Lowering nitrogen rates under the system of rice intensification enhanced rice productivity and nitrogen use efficiency in irrigated lowland rice. Heliyon 8(4): e09140 [accessed March 30, 2022]
- • Nazir, A, et al. 2022. Comparative analysis of rice and weeds and their nutrient partitioning under various establishment methods and weed management practices in temperate environment. Agronomy 12(4): 816. doi:10.3390/agronomy12040816 [accessed March 27, 2022]
- • Marpaung, David S. M., Nova Anika, and Yazid Bindar. 2022. Strategi peningkatan produktivitas padi melalui Sistem Salibu Jurnal Sumberdaya Lahan. 16(1): 1-7. [accessed March 24, 2022]
- • Nihayah, Badi’atun, Bayu Dwi Apri Nugroho, and Nur Aini Iswati Hasanah. 2022. Model denitrification decomposition (DNDC) untuk estimasi emisi gas Ch4 pada budidaya padi metode System of Rice Intensification (SRI). Jurnal Riset Daerah 21(3): 3988-4002
- • Khanal, Surabhi. 2021. System of rice intensification in Nepal: determinant factors for adoption, and relevance to climate change. Master's thesis, Norwegian University of Life Sciences. 59p. [accessed March 19, 2022]
- Ingabire, Chantal, et al. 2013. Rice Intensification System (SRI): Awareness and adoption in the Eastern Province of Rwanda. Conference on confronting challenges of food insecurity and poverty in the era of climate change and variability. Rwanda, August 2013. [accessed March 19, 2022]
- *• Koshy, Natasha. 2017. Enacting “technology” and everything else: Gendered practices and the System of Crop Intensification. PhD dissertation. Syracuse University (New York). [accessed March 16, 2022]
- • Cahyono, Basuki Iman. 2022. Persepsi, tingkat pemahaman dan tingkat penerapan budidaya padi organik dengan metode SRI (System Of Rice Intensification) di Kabupaten Banyumas. Masters thesis, Universitas Jenderal Soedirman (Indonesia). [accessed March 8, 2022]
- • Mandal, K. G., et al. 2022. Policy perspectives on agricultural water management and associated technologies suitable for different agro-climatic zones of West Bengal, India. Current Science 122(4): 386-395. [accessed March 2, 2022]
New Links from our Website to Online Publications (and SRI-Related Social Media sites) - March 2022
- 2022. 7 years after we started the programme, what has happened to the rice farmers in Ndop, Cameroon? SRI-Rice website. [Report on Skills for Development's (SfD) SRI work with the Cameroonian NGO Barudev] [Uploaded March 2022]
- Segnon, A.C.,R. B. Zougmoré, and P. Houessionon. 2021. Technologies and practices for agriculture and food system adaptation to climate change in The Gambia. CCAFS Working Paper no. 344. Wageningen, the Netherlands: CGIAR Research Program on Climate Change, Agriculture and Food Security (CCAFS). [accessed March 20, 2022]
Documents Uploaded and New Pages Created/Updated on our Website - March 2022
- [Web pages updated during March 2022: SRI-Rice web pages updated during March 2022: 2022 additions, February 2021 additions (new page), events, Cameroon, Chile, The Gambia, Indonesia, Myanmar, Nepal, journal articles, India journal articles, India news, India videos, research network, theses, videos]
- SfD. 2022. 7 years after we started the programme, what has happened to the rice farmers in Ndop, Cameroon? SRI-Rice website. [Uploaded March 2022] [Report on Skills for Development's (SfD) SRI work with the Cameroonian NGO Barudev]
- Fisher, Lucy. 2022. February 2021 news additions to the SRI-Rice website.
Videos/Audio - March 2022
- 2022 (March 27). SRI-2030.13:22 min. SRI-2030 channel, YouTube. [Video (long version) that explains the importance of methane as a GHG, how SRI can reduce this, and the SRI-2030 aspiration to scale up SRI to 50 million hectares by 2030. SRI-2030 is an initiative of the Downforce Trust.]
- 2022 (March 22). திருந்திய நெல் சாகுபடி பகுதி 1|SRI method rice cultivation part 1. 9:39 min. Kurinji Lifestyle Farming channel, YouTube. [Tamil language video on seed selection and nursery management for SRI.]
- 2022 (March 10). SRI-2030 Quick Overview. 2:06 min. SRI-2030 channel, YouTube. [Short video that explains the importance of methane as a GHG, how SRI can reduce this, and the SRI-2030 aspiration to scale up SRI to 50 million hectares by 2030. SRI-2030 is a movement initiated by The Downforce Trust.]
- 2022 (March 3). L18: Major Crops of India Paddy, Rice | SRI Method- System of Rice Intensification | Direct Seeding. 17:11 min. Pathfinder channel, YouTube. [Regarding crops in India; section is at min. 11:36]
- 2022 (March 1). A Long Food Movement: Transforming Food Systems. 1:35:08. [SRI in min. 0.51.00 - 1:05:00] Third World Network channel, YouTube. [One of the five speakers, Nurul Salmi, from Malaysia, talks about organic SRI in Malaysia.]
Presentations - March 2022
- None
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