April 2023 - Additions to the SRI-Rice Website (Links to online material)
(See previous months acquisitions - 2013-2023)
• SRI-RICE STATISTICS for April 2023:
SRI-Rice website: 1,705 new users (2,347 users last month) from 65* (69 last month) logged 2,284 sessions (3,199 last month) in which 3,534 pages (4,700 last month) were viewed. [Top ten countries in order of number of new users: India (498), USA (382), China (73), UK (65), Philippines (61), Nepal (48), Japan (59), Indonesia (37), South Korea (35), Nigeria (32)
* # 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: 2,593 followers. 2) SRI Equipment Innovators Exchange: 398 members . 3) SRI West Africa: 1,813 members. 4) SICA America Latina: 1,155 follows 5) SRI en las Américas: 74 members
SRI-Rice Newsletter: 111 views (91 last month)
YouTube (primary): 696 (577 last month) new views this month for our 91 uploads. 84 views (81 last month) for our 41 playlists (not including our India YouTube channel). 1,741 subscribers (8 new); 288,300 all-time views of our videos (2009-2022); 95,427 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: 1,974 followers
Slideshare: 1,138 views this month; 545 slideshows/posters total uploaded, 263 followers
Research Databases: There are 2,263 items (1,566 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 April 2023: 2023 additions (new page), March 2022 additions (new page), extension materials page, DR Congo, Ecuador, Indonesia, Japan, Niger, Tanzania, Zambia, journal articles, India journal articles, India news, India videos, events, SFMI (millet), research network, theses, videos
In the Press - April 2023
- ₹33cr climate resilience plan for Ganjam’s 4 coastal blocks [SRI is included]
April 27, 2023, Times of India (Odisha, India) - Lotus Foods co-founders honored with 2023 MO 100 Top Impact CEO Award for their leadership in organic and regenerative rice farming
April 17, 2023, Cision PR Newswire (USA) - Agriculture: des petits producteurs formés au système de riziculture intensive [GIZ-sponsored SRI training in Kinshasa in associated with the centres d’innovations vertes (CIV)]
April 7, 2023, Agence Congolaise de Presse (ACP) (DR Congo)
- The future of sustainable agriculture in India: GM crops and beyond [SRI at top of examples list for sustainable agriculture]
April 4, 2023, ISRGKB (India)
Blog Posts and Website Articles - accessed during April 2023
- 2023. Earth Day 2023: Sustainable rice cultivation. Global Hearth website. April 22. [Article on SRI for Earth Day]
- 2023. FAO spearheads adoption of new rice production technology in Tanzania in push to raise yields and boost farmer incomes. Milling Middle East and Africa website April 17. [FAO, with EU funding, is training farmers on SRI to improve yields and incomes in the Morogoro and Mbeya regions.]
- 2023. Lotus Foods 2022 impact report. Lotus Foods blog. April 20. Links to 25 page full report on LF's organic rice importing efforts help minimize water usage, improve soil health, empower women, increase farm incomes and reduce climate impact.]
- [Letters to the editor. The Economist. April 20.]
- 2023. The Earthshot Prize 2023 submitted nominations. Cranfield University website. April 15. [Description of SRI-2030's nomination (along with others) for the Earthshot Prize.]
- 2022. Presentamos estudio sobre alternativas para mejorar competitividad de pequeños productores en Ecuador. RIMISP website. July 22. [Study and workshops for small producers in Guayas and Los Rios, Ecuador, recommend SRI as an alternative.] [accessed April 14, 2023]
- McCallum, Jen. 2023. Improving rural livelihoods in Zambia with SRI: The inspiring story of Henry Ngimbu. SRI-2030 blog. April 14.
- 2023. Meet the shortlisted candidates of the Resilient Agriculture Innovations for Nature (RAIN) Challenge. Global Resilience Partnership website. April 10. [SRI project by Nile Interconsults Uganda is among the shortlist. (We don't know much about SRI in Uganda so this is interesting!)
- Mbago, Gertrude. 2023. Rice intensification technology transforms farming, lives of people. IPP Media. April 8. [EU-supported FAO SRI project in Mbeya and Morogoro yields good results in Tanzania.]
- Panda, Pradeep Kumar. 2023. Odisha aims to take millets' processing to Gram Panchayat. The Raisina Hills website. April 6. [Odisha Millets Mission in Odisha, India, promotes System of Millet Intensification (SMI) and millet processing enterprises with farmers.]
- 2023. A walk through the past and the future of Congolese rice: an interview with Ivan Godfroid. RIKOLTO website. April 5. [Rikolto (a Belgian NGO) ag value chain article that briefly notes their work with SRI and ISFM in DR Congo.]
- 2023. Growing green: Climate-Smart Agriculture, revolutionizing farming for a changing world. Tractor News. April 3. [SRI cited as example of CSA.]
Latest Research / Journal Articles / Theses - links acquired during April 2023
(in order of acquisition. See also complete alphabetized list of journal articles.)
[Note: • Red dot indicates the publication is freely available.]
- • Uphoff, Norman. 2023. SRI 2.0 and beyond: Sequencing the protean evolution of the System of Rice Intensification. Agronomy 13(5): 1253. doi:10.3390/agronomy13051253 [accessed April 30, 2023]
- • Theerthana, T., et al. 2023. Influence of nano nitrogen and nano zinc fertilizers on nutrient uptake and use efficiency in paddy under different systems of establishment. Ecology, Environment & Conservation 29(1): 361-366. doi:10.53550/EEC.2023.v29i01.053 [accessed April 30, 2023]
- • Krishna, Parimi Venkata Sai, Karthika Vishnu Priya Kathula, and Masina Sairam. 2023. "System of Rice Intensification (SRI): An approach towards enhancement of productivity and water use efficiency." In: Advances in Agricultural Technology edited by Sagar Maitra, Dinkar J. Gaikwad and Santosh D.T., Published by Griffon, Canada: 255-266. [accessed April 22, 2023]
- • Mehra, Mamta, Eric Toensmeier, and Chad Frischmann. 2023. Multifunctionality of agricultural solutions address climate change mitigation and adaptation while helping achieve the SDGs. Preprint (not associated with journal yet). doi:10.21203/rs.3.rs-2712627/v1
- Pal, Biplab, et al. 2023. Soil fertility and zinc application influences yield and zinc-iron nutrition in rice (Ia) under system of rice intensification and conventional methods. Indian Journal of Agronomy 64(2): 191-199. [accessed April 20, 2023]
- • Mohapatra, Kiran Kumar, et al. 2023. Multi-criteria assessment to screen climate smart rice establishment techniques in coastal rice production system of India. Frontiers in Plant Science 14: 11305. doi:10.3389/fpls.2023.1130545 [accessed April 19, 2023]
- Bhargavi, G., and A. Sundari. 2023. Effect of nano urea on the growth and yield of rice (Oryza sativa) under SRI in the Cauvery delta zone of Tamil Nadu. Crop Research 58: 12-17. doi:10.31830/2454-1761.2023.CR-885
- • Thakur, Amod, 2023. Do System of Rice Intensification practices produce rice plants phenotypically and physiologically superior to conventional practice? Agronomy 13(4): 1098. doi:10.3390/agronomy13041098. [accessed April 16, 2023]
- • Katti, Gururaj, and Padmavathi Ch. 2022. Impact of rice cultivation methods on insect pest incidence and their management. Journal of Rice Research 15 (special issue): 84-89. doi:10.58297/XHFF3294 [accessed April 15, 2023]
- Abdulkadir, A., et al. 2022. Effects of alternate wetting and drying water levels and planting methods on performance of rice (Oryza Sativa L.) and selected soil properties in a Nigerian Sudan savanna. Journal of Rice Research 15 (Special issue): 77-80. doi:10.58297/YKBR1159 [accessed April 14, 2023]
- • Chintalapati, Padmavathi, et al. 2023. Insect pest incidence with the System of Rice Intensification: Results of a multi-location study and a meta-analysis. Agronomy 13(4): 1100 [accessed April 14, 2023]
- Ali, Outani Bibata. 2021. Effet du système de riziculture intensive sur les émissions de gaz à effet de serre, la dynamique des populations des nématodes parasites, et la production du riz (Oryza Sativa L.) sur le périmètre irrigué de Sébéri au Niger. Master's degree. Centre Régional AGRHYMET (Niger) [accessed April 7, 2023]
- • Anam, Syaiful, Uswatun Hasanah, and Iswa Windani. 2019. Analisis komparatif usahatani padi metode System of Rice Intensification (SRI) dan Jajar Legowo 6:1 di Kecamatan Bayan Kabupaten Purworejo. Surya Agritama 8(1): 135-151. [accessed April 1, 2023]
- • Kalita, R., et al. 2023. Production maximization of rainy season rice (Oryza sativa) through effective use of water and solar radiation under modified system of rice intensification in Assam. Indian Journal of Agronomy 68(1): 1-8. [accessed April 3, 2023]
- • Baul, Tushi, Dean Karlan, Kentaro, and Kathryn Vasilaky. 2022. Improving smallholder agriculture via video-based group extension. SSRN Electronic Journal. doi:10.2139/ssrn.4307353 [accessed April 1, 2023]
Links to Online Publications and Websites - April 2023
- 2023. ClimateRice. A new website by a group at Cornell that is promoting SRI by creating a self-financing model with carbon credits. ClimateRice hopes to have SRI on 55M hectares over the next 10 years. [updated April, 2023.]
Documents Uploaded and New Pages Created/Updated on our Website - April 2023
- Web pages updated during April 2023: 2023 additions (new page), March 2022 additions (new page), extension materials page, DR Congo, Ecuador, Indonesia, Japan, Niger, Tanzania, Zambia, journal articles, India journal articles, India news, India videos, events, SFMI (millet), research network, theses, videos
- Fisher, Lucy. 2022. March 2023 news additions to the SRI-Rice website.
Videos/Audio - April 2023
- 2023 (April 13). Improving Rural Livelihoods in Zambia with SRI: The Inspiring Story of Henry Ngimbu. SRI-2030 channel, YouTube. [The story of Henry Ngimbu's SRI journey in Zambia which began in 2003.]
- 2023 (April 7). SRI Method of Rice Intensification. 8:20 min. PAKRUTI channel, YouTube. [Kannada language (India) explanation of SRI]
Presentations - April 2023
- none this month
