2021 NEWS AND LATEST RESOURCES
- Latest Research
- New Publication Links
- New Uploads (Our site)
News from other years:
[Also see WHAT'S NEW THIS MONTH!]
In the Press - 2021
February 2021
- Autonomie alimentaire : Changer la base de régime alimentaire, mais pourquoi bon sang? [Author thinks SRI could help La Réunion become sef-sufficient in rice.]
February 23, 2021, Témoignages (La Réunion) - SRI विधि से खेती ज्यादा फायदेमंद क्यों है? कम लागत में ऐसे होती है ज्यादा पैदावार [History and pros and cons of SRI in India]
February 15, 2021, TVHindi9 (India) - Il était une fois le père Laulanié, il était une fois le SRI
February 3, 2021, Témoignages (La Réunion)
January 2021
- Awards for farmer producer companies from this year [Among Republic Day awards given was the ‘Thiru. C. Narayanasamy Naidu Award’ for highest productivity with SRI which was won by G. Selvakumar of Srivilliputhur, Tamil Nadu.]
Janaury 26, 2021, The Hindu (Tamil Nadu, India) - Petani Langkat diajak budidayakan padi ramah lingkungan [Tani Sehat farmer group has first SRI harvest; CSR project by PT Tirta Investama Langkat.]
January 14, 2021, Sinar Baru Indonesia (North Sumatra, Indonesia) - Good response to farmers’ schemes: Collector
January 10, 2021, The Hindu (Tamil Nadu, India) - Penyuluh Kostratani Kecamatan Sumur Pandeglang jadi motivator SL Tematik [Ujung Kulon National Park (TNUK) buffer villages have govt-sponsored FFS on SRI (16 meetings) facilitated by the World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF)]
January 6, 2021, Jurnal Inspirasi (West Java, Indonesia)
Blog Posts and Website Articles - 2021
- Fisher, Lucy. 2021. System of Rice Intensification recognized for climate policy impact. Cornell Chronicle, February 23. [Apolitical website recognizes policies by Vietnamese Govt. to reduce GHGs by using SRI.]
- date? SRI Project in Marangdut. Bhutan Foundation website. [During Oct. armyworms badly affected rice yields in Marangdut except in SRI fields, which used biopesticides and were unaffected. SRI yields expected to be 10% higher when harvested.] [accessed February 1, 2021]
- Mushahary, Barhunkha. Paddy farmers reap rich harvest through SRI cultivation. Village Square. February 17. (Story of COVID-time success by the NGO SeSTA in Assam with yields doubled by SRI.)
- 2021. Can Africa overcome its own water problems? Farmers Review Africa. February 16.
- date? Success story#3. ICAR-IIRR website. [SRI success and potential based on AICRIP centers findings] [accessed February 12, 2021]
- Huda, Hanief Miftahul. 2020. Standar operasi prosedur (SRI) System of Rice Intensification. Natural Farming Indonesia. December 24. [SRI instructions with organic input details. (in Indonesian)] [accessed February 12, 2021]
- Idrissa, Silue. 2021. Securite alimentaire: Une nouvelle approche rizicole utilisee par les techniciens de l'ANADER. National Rural Development Support Agency (ANADER) website. February 1. [SRI farmers/ANADER staff in Daloa, Cote d'Ivoire, have sharing event in 7 villages.]
- Fisher, Lucy. 2021. System of Rice Intensification recognized for climate policy impact. Cornell College of Agriculture and Life Sciences (CALS) website. January 30. [Apolitical website recognizes policies by Vietnamese Govt. to reduce GHGs by using SRI.]
- 2021. 100 climate policy breakthroughs. Apolitical website. [Apolitical website recognizes 100 climate policies, one of which is efforts by Vietnamese Govt. to reduce GHGs by using SRI.]
- 2021. Mahasiswa agroteknologi meraih medali perak di ajang international perlombaan Advanced Innovation Global Competition (AIGC). Universitas Jendral Soedirman website. January 14. [Indonesian students win silver medal for SRI irrigation device at international competition.]
- 2021. Reduced carbon footprint and increased economic results: when science proves the positive impact of agroecology! Agrisud International website. January 13. [See also French version] [Summary of a research paper that shows SRI can play a part in reducing carbon footprint in Madagascar.]
- *Dwyer, Augusta. 2021. From West Africa, here comes the next miracle grain: fonio. Global Landscape Forum website. January 7.
- 2021. SRI dan JARWO, terobosan baru cara penanaman padi organik di Muara Laboh. Anwar Muhammad Foundation (AMF) website. [Project in Muara Loboh, West Sumatra, gets training in SRI and Jajar Logowo methods from the NGO AMF.]
Latest Research / Journal Articles / Theses - acquired during 2021
(listed in order of acquisition. See also complete alphabetized list of journal articles).
- Red dot ( •) indicates article is freely available; * asterisk is SCI (other than rice)
- Biswas, Amit, Damodhara Rao Mailapalli, and Narendra Singh Raghuwanshi. 2021. Modelling the effect of changing transplanting water footprints for paddy under System of Rice intensification. Journal of the Science of Food and Agriculture. (Online first March 1, 2021). doi:10.1002/jsfa.11186
- • Ouma, Matilda A., Justus M. Ombati and Christopher A. Onyango. 2020. Challenges and coping strategies in the uptake of the System of Rice Intensification practices in Oluch Irrigation Scheme, Homa-Bay County, Kenya. Journal of Experimental Agriculture International 42(12): 13-25. doi:10.9734/jeai/2020/v42i1230624 [accessed February 27, 2021]
- • Ahadiyat, Y. R., and Ardiansyah. 2020. Aplikasi pemupukan pada System of Rice Intensification terhadap pertumbuhan dan hasil padi saat musim kemarau. Jurnal Penelitian Pertanian Terapan 20(3): 213-217. doi:10.25181/jppt.v20i3.1713 [accessed February 25, 2021]
- • Shah, Tavseef Mairaj. 2021. Agroecological engineering interventions for food security and sustainable rural development: The case of rice farming in Kashmir. Hamburger Berichte zur Siedlungswasserwirtschaft 103. 152 p. doi:10.15480/882.3286. [Book based on PhD dissertation] [accessed February 25, 2021]
- *Kavita and Darwankar, M. 2020. System of Wheat Intensification: A short review. Plant Cell Biotechnology and Molecular Biology 21(69-70): 74-78. [accessed February 12, 2021]
- • Htwe, T., et al. 2021. Grain yield and environmental impacts of alternative rice establishment methods in Myanmar. Applied Ecology and Environmental Research 19(1): 507-524. [accessed February 10, 2021]
- Kavishe, R.E., F.C. Kahimba, and H.C. Komakech. 2021. Farmer's appropriation of system of rice intensification practices in water-scarce irrigation schemes in Northern Tanzania. Paddy and Water Environment. 10.1007/s10333-020-00836-1 [accessed February 10, 2021]
- • Nwahia, Ogechi Cordelia. 2021. Analysis of cost and returns in rice production by USAID-MARKETS II Project participants and non-participants in Ebonyi State, Nigeria. Agricultural Socio-Economics Journal 121(1): 1-6. doi:10.21776/ub.agrise.2021.021.1.12 [accessed February 8, 2021]
- • Tampubolon, Yanto Raya, et al. 2020. IPTEK bagi masyakarkat untuk meningkatkan ketahanan pangan: Penerapan metode SRI (System of Rice Intensification) di Kecamatan Namorambe, Kabupaten Deli Serdang, Sumatera Utara. Logista 4(2): 285-297, doi: 10.25077/logista.4.2.285-297.2020 [accessed February 3, 2021]
- • Yadav, Shipra, et al. 2020. Soil organic carbon sequestration and carbon pools in rice based cropping systems in Indo-Gangetic Plains: An overview. International Research Journal of Pure & Applied Chemistry 21(24): 122-136. doi:10.9734/irjpac/2020/v21i2430341 [accessed February 2, 2021]
- • Garbaa, A., and R. Kumeri. 2016. Transplanting rice (Oryza sativa L) using different seedling rates under rainfed condition in Bauchi, Nigeria. International Journal of Engineering & Scientific Research 4(3) [accessed February 1, 2021]
- • Diedhiou, Pierre C.C. 2021. Intensification (SRI) and traditional practices (TP) in Ziguinchor District, Senegal. Forestry & Agriculture Review 2(1): 22-36. doi:10.47285/far.v2i1.64 [accessed Janaury 31, 2021]
- • Astane, Yaser Ghorbanian, et al. 2013. Effects of systems of rice intensification (SRI) on grain yield and water productivity of rice. Agroecology Journal 9(4): 53-61 [accessed January 30, 2021]
- Akpoti, Komlavi. 2021. The potential for expansion of irrigated rice under alternate wetting and drying in Burkina Faso. Agricultural Water Management 247: 106758. doi:10.1016/j.agwat.2021.106758
- • Sugarda, Tarya J., et al. 2008. Kajian pengembangan usahatani padi organik SRI (System of Rice Insensification) berwawasan agribisnis dalam mendukung program ketahanan pangan secara berkelanjutanr. Agrikultura 19(1): 15-25. doi:10.24198/agrikultura.v19i1.625 [accessed January 27, 2021]
- Adrianto, Irwan. 2020. Kajian perbandingan usahatani padi organik SRI (System of Rice Intensification) dan padi anorganik di Kabupaten Luwu Timur. Undergraduate Thesis, Universitas Hasanudin (Indonesia) [accessed January 27, 2021]
- • Arif, Chusnul, et al. 2021. Performances of sheet-pipe typed subsurface drainage on land and water productivity of paddy fields in Indonesia. Water 13(1): 48. doi:10.3390/w13010048
- Ramesh, Kumbhar Chaitanya. 2020. Population dynamics and management of insect pests of rice and their natural enemies in different rice cultivation systems in Bihar. PhD dissertation, Dr. Rajendra Prasad Central Agricultural University. 116p. (Bihar, India) [accessed January 27, 2021]
- Kalita, Rekhashree. 2020. Resource use efficiency in winter rice (Oryza sativa L.) under SRI concept as influenced by microclimate. Assam Agricultural University, Jorhat. 213p. (Assam, India) [accessed January 27, 2021]
- Konwar, Milon Jyoti. 2020. Real time nitrogen application in winter rice under different crop establishment techniques. PhD dissertation, Assam Agricultural University. [accessed January 25, 2021]
- • Hasanah, N.A., et al. 2021. Economic valuation of SRI paddy. IOP Conference Series: Earth and Environmental Science 622: 012050. doi:10.1088/1755-1315/622/1/012050 [accessed January 14, 2021]
- Mishra, Abha, Jan Willem Ketelaar, Norman Uphoff and Max Whitten. 2021. Food security and climate-smart agriculture in the lower Mekong basin of Southeast Asia: evaluating impacts of system of rice intensification with special reference to rainfed agriculture. International Journal of Agricultural Sustainability doi:10.1080/14735903.2020.1866852 [accessed January 13, 2021]
- Nirmala, B., et al. 2021. Integrated assessment of system of rice intensification vs. conventional method of transplanting for economic benefit, energy efficiency and lower global warming potential in India. Agroecology and Sustainable Food Systems, doi:10.1080/21683565.2020.1868648 [accessed January 10, 2021]
- • Khanh, Hồ Vũ, et al. 2020. Assessment of economic efficiency, soil characteristics and plankton on SRI model, and traditional intensive rice model in Tan Hiep, Kien Giang. Ho Chi Minh City University of Education Journal of Science, 17(12), 2130-2142. [accessed January 8, 2021]
- • Kuotsu, Kevizhalhou, and Avanish Prakash Singh. 2020. Establishment and weed management effects on yield of lowland rice (Oryza sativa). Journal of Pharmacognosy and Phytochemistry 9(6): 1742-1744. [accessed January 6, 2021]
New Links from our Website to Online Publications (and SRI-Related Social Media sites) (2021)
(see also Latest Research directly above and Recent Uploads below for new material on our site).
Recent Documents Uploaded on our Website (2021) (Includes new pages added to the SRI-Rice website)
- [Web pages updated during February: 2021 additions, January 2021 additions (new page), events, Bhutan, Indonesia, Kenya, Myanmar, Nigeria, Senegal, Tanzania, journal articles, India journal articles, India news, India videos, research network, SWI, videos]
- Fisher, Lucy. 2021. Monthly additions to the SRI-Rice website. [uploaded monthly]
Videos / Audiofiles - 2021 acquisitions (either uploaded by SRI-Rice OR linked to from our website)
- 2021 (February 19). System of Rice Intensification | SeSTA's Intervention | Northeast India | Assam. 10:14 min. Seven Sisters Development Assistance channel, YouTube. [Local language instructional SRI video from the Indian NGO SeSTA's project in Assam.]
- 2021. BBC clip on SRI and drip irrigation (from Follow the Food series). 3:02 min. BBC website. [Interview on SRI is with Ravidchandran Vanchinathan in South India. This video clip is part of the BBC series Follow the Food, specifically the section on Why our food needs to use less water.]
- 2021 (February 16). Rice iCrop - Intercropping Rice and Legumes. 28:54 min. Rice iCrop channel, YouTube. [Beans intercropped with SRI rice in Assam. This is research from Tavseef Shah's PhD dissertation.]
- 2021 (January 26). SRI: The Zamfara Rice Farming Experience. 13:40 min. NIFAAS Nigeria channel, YouTube. [One of a series SRI videos from Zamfara State, Nigeria, produced by the NAERLS, Zaria.]
- 2020 (July 8). Hore! Akhirnya Panen SRI! 12:21 min. MD Indonesia channel, Indonesia.[Vlog from a ZOA-MDS SRI project in Central Sulawesi. In Indonesian with English subtitles.] [accessed January 12, 2021]
- 2020 (May 23). SRI #3 Pembersihan Gulma (MDS-ZOA Vlog). 2:31 min. MD Indonesia channel, Indonesia [Vlog about weeding from a ZOA-MDS SRI project in Central Sulawesi. In Indonesian with English subtitles.].[accessed January 12, 2021]
- [2020. System of Rice Intensification (SRI). 2:17 min. Resilience India channel, YouTube. [Video sponsored by NIBIO, ICAR and NRRI in India that is a short overview of SRI methods from seed to harvest.]
Slide Presentations (Primarily PowerPoint) - 2021 acquisitions
_____________
* indicates SCI, which is adaptation of SRI principles to other crops.
