March 2014 - Additions to the SRI-Rice Website
(Uploads to our site and links to online material)
- Latest Research
- New Publication Links
- New Uploads (Our site)
• SRI-Rice statistics for March 2014: 4,315 unique visitors from 95 countries made 11,618 visits in the SRI website. Total Facebook views: 2,196. Twitter followers: 727
• For additional news see: our SRI News, 2014 Latest Website Additions, SRI-Rice Twitter, News and Views blog, LinkedIn, YouTube (global), YouTube (India), Slideshare and Picasa photo gallery, or, see news by country
• See Latest activities of the SRI-Rice Center staff and advisors
News from other months
In the Press - March 2014
- Pertanian organik untungkan petani (Organic farming profitable to farmers)
March 21, 2014, Fajar Makassar (South Sulawesi, Indonesia) - Farmer’s organization receives support, for SRI practice in Liberia
March 6, 2014, Daily Observer (Liberia) - Over 3,100 hectares to come under summer paddy
March 5, 2014, The Hindu (Tamil Nadu, India) - Ini dia penyebab kandungan beras Subang mengandung klorin [Overuse of pesticides and fertilizer can be reduced with SRI]
March 4, 2014, Republika Online (West Java, Indonesia) - East Kalimantan cooperates with the Indonesian Army for food security (E.Kalimantan Gov. says plan to include army for agricultural work to include SRI]
March 5, 2014, The President Post (East Kalmantan, Indonesia) - TNI AD Bantu Kalsel Bangun Ketahanan Pangan [840 ha. of SRI to be included in food security project to be assisted by the army, which will open new lands among other activities.]
March 4, 2014, Republika Online (South Kalimantan, Indonesia) - SRI to the rescue of village hit by labour shortage [Mechanized transplanting with SRI (though the picture doesn't look like single or young seedlings)]
March 3, 2014, The Hindu (Tamil Nadu, India) - Nhật viện trợ cho những người nghèo nhất Việt Nam [Save the Children Japan includes SRI in its food security programming]
March 3, 2014, VNMedia (Vietnam) - German to make documentary on Bihar farmer
March 1, 2014, Business Standard (Bihar, India)
Blog Posts and Website Articles - acquired during March 2014
- Vidal, John. 2014. Haiyan - harbinger of things to come? The Guardian's GlobalDevelopment blog. March 31. [John Vidal mentions SRI in connection with climate change resilience in Philippines.]
- 2014. Haitian rice farmers double their yields. USAID website, Results & data section. February 7. [The FTF West project that worked with about 1,500 farmers using SRI since 2010 and saw the gross margin per hectare increase from $350 to $1,691, will end May 2014] [accesses March 30, 2014]
- Feng, Zhoucen. 2014. My learning and work experience in Haiti blog. [Zhoucen was sent by SRI-Rice to work with iF Foundation in northern Haiti to introduce SRI methods. This blog is an account of her activities in February and March, 2014.]
- Ireson, Randall. 2013. The state of North Korean farming: New Information from the UN Crop Assessment Report. 38 North website. December 18. [The third paragraph in the Reading between the Lines section of the article says the SRI, which uses plastic trays is reportedly popular in the North, and, the author speculates that "some of the increase in rice yield [in North Korea] is very likely caused by the wider use of SRI."] [acccessed March 15, 2014]
- Fisher, Lucy. 2014. SRI-Rice named as a finalist for the 2013 Katerva Award. SRI News and Views blog. March 10.
Latest Research / Journal Articles / Theses - acquired during March 2014
(in order of acquisition. See also complete alphbetized list of journal articles.)
- Choi, Joongdae, Gunyeob Kim, et al. 2014. Effect of SRI water management on water quality and greenhouse gas emissions in Korea. Irrigation and Drainage. (published online first March 18, 2014) doi:10.1002/ird.1843
- Ranjan, Rajeev, Vivek Prasad, et al. 2014. The challenges and potentials of the System of Rice Intensification (SRI) in addressing food security and developing resilience to climate change. International Journal of Environmental, Cultural, Economic and Social Sustainability Volume 7(6): 81-94.
- Parameswari, Y.S., A. Srinivas, T. Ram Prakash, and G. Narendar G. 2014. Effect of different crop establishment methods on rice (Oryza sativa L.) growth and yield - A review. Agricultural Reviews 35(1): 74-77. [acquired March 3, 2014]
- • Reddy, Rampuram Jayapal and N.Sandhya Shenoy. 2013. A comparative economic analysis of Traditional and System of Rice Intensification (SRI) rice cultivation practices in Mahabubnagar district of Andhra Pradesh. International Journal of Scientific and Research Publications 3(10): 1-3. [2013 article acquired March 5, 2014]
- • Reddy, Rampuram Jayapal and N.Sandhya Shenoy. 2013. Impact of SRI technology on rice cultivation and the cost of cultivation in Mahabubnagar district of Andhra Pradesh. International Journal of Scientific and Research Publications 3(8): 1-2. [2013 article acquired March 5, 2014]
- • Kumar, R. Mahender, P. Raghuveer Rao, et al. 2013. SRI - A method for sustainable intensification of rice production with enhanced water productivity. Agrotechnology S11(2013): 1-6. doi:10.4172/2168-9881.S11-009 [2013 article acquired March 3, 2014]
- • Dhananchezhiyan, P., C. Divaker Durairaj, and S. Parveen. 2013. Development of nursery raising technique for "system of rice intensification" machine transplanting. Africa Journal of Agricultural Research 8(29): 3873-3882. doi:10.5897/AJAR2013.7465 [2013 article acquired March 3, 2014]
New Links from our Website to Online Publications (March 2014)
(see also Latest Research directly above and Recent Uploads below for new material on our
site)
- None this month.
Recent Documents Uploaded on our Website (March 2014)
- Verzola, Roberto. 2014. Seed grower appreciates the resilience to strong winds of SRI-grown rice. System of Rice Intensification website. March 31. (2p, 660KB pdf) [Farmer in Bataan Province in the Philippines documents SRI's resistance to lodging in high winds.] [uploaded March 31, 2014]
- Thiyagarajan, T. M. 2010. My destiny, my profession. System of Rice Intensification website. October. (8 p., 86KB pdf) [Story of T.M. Thiyagarajan and how he came to be a champion of SRI] [uploaded March 28, 2014]
- Verzola, Roberto. 2014. Aringay farmer improves rice yield by 40%. System of Rice Intensification website. March 26. [A woman farmer in La Union Province explains how she came to understand SRI.] [uploaded March 26, 2014]
- SRI-Rice. 2014. SRI-Rice named as a finalist for the 2013 Katerva Award. System of Rice Intensification website. March 7.
Videos / Audiofiles (March 2014 Acquisitions)
- [accessed March 28, 2014] Video: 2014. (March 26). SRI Transplanting. Produced by Zhoucen Feng. 0:54 min. SRI in northern Haiti channel, YouTube. [ iF Foundation SRI project supervised by SRI-Rice intern Zhoucen Feng in northern Haiti]
- [uploaded March 14, 2014] Video: 2014 (March 14). SRI Farmer in Liberia. 2:32 min. SRI-Rice Channel, Youtube. [A rice farmer in Liberia talks about his experience on farming with SRI techniques.]
- [uploaded March 14, 2014] Video: 2014 (March 14). CARI Researchers in Liberia. 3:37min. SRI-Rice Channel, Youtube. [Researchers from CARI, Central Agricultural Research Institute, talk about the SRI-experience in Liberia]
- [uploaded March 14, 2014] Video: 2014 (March 14). Sam Bimba talks about the CHAPS SRI plots in Liberia. 4:16 min. SRI-Rice Channel, Youtube.
- [uploaded March 14, 2014] Video: 2014 (March 14). Practices of SRI methods in Chattisgarh, India (English Version). 5:30 min. Written and produced by Tom Pietrasik. SRI-Rice Channel, Youtube. [see also Hindi version] [This video was made by Tom Pietrasik in collaboration with Jacob Nellithanam and shows the direct seeding of SRI in rainfed rice. The tools depicted were developed by Nrayana Reddy, one of the earliest farmers to experiment with SRI in India.]
- [uploaded March 7, 2014] Video: 2014 (March 7). Single row manual weeder demo in Liberia. 0:19 min. SRI-Rice Channel, Youtube. [ A weeder sent to Liberia from the USA for trials with the System of Rice Intensification.]
- [uploaded March 7, 2014] Video: 2014 (March 7). Interview with Elizabeth Bimba on SRI (Liberia). 2:39 min. SRI-Rice Channel, Youtube. [Elizabeth Bimba talks about how and why she is adopting the System of Rice Intensification (SRI) in Zubah Town, Paynesvilles, Monrovia, Liberia]
- [uploaded March 7, 2014] Video: 2014 (March 7). Interview with Robert Bimba on SRI in Liberia . 5:24 min. SRI-Rice Channel, Youtube. [Video statement by Robert Bimba, Vice President of the Liberia Farmer Association, who learned about SRI during the SRI West workshop in Burkina Faso in July 2012]
Slide Presentations (Primarily PowerPoint) - March 2014 acquistitions
- None this month.
Photo Gallery
- Liberia photo album updated (March 2014)
- Cameroon photo album updated (March 2014)
