April 2017- Additions to the SRI-Rice Website
(Links to online material)
• SRI-RICE STATISTICS FOR April 2017:
SRI-Rice website: 3,597 unique visitors (3,859 last month) from 87 countries (89 last month) logged 4,734 sessions (4,806 last month) in which 8,978 pages (8,677 last month) were viewed. [Top ten user countries in order of sessions: India, USA, Philippines, Malaysia, UK, Indonesia, Tanzania, Nigeria, Australia and Germany.]
Facebook pages: 1) SRI-Rice: All-time likes 2,309 (93 new). 2) SRI Equipment Innovators Exchange: 331 members (9 new) 3) SRI West Africa: 2,243 members, SICA America Latina: 1,020 likes
YouTube (primary): 2,482 (2,201 last month) new views this month for our 88 uploads. 246 views for our 41 playlists (not including our India YouTube channel). 366 subscribers (6 new). 95,990 all time views. [NOTE!: The 8 India playlists from the SRI India video channel are now accessible on the main SRI-Rice video channel].
Twitter: 1,594 followers (9 new this month)
Slideshare: 7,581 (7,805 last month) views new this month; 464 slideshows/posters total uploaded, 212 followers (7 new)
Research Databases: There are 1,098 items in our new Zotero research database (7 new). (700+ of these appear in the Mendeley SRI Research database). Note: we are no longer adding to RefWorks as it was retired in Dec. 2015. Please use Zotero.)
• For additional global news see: our News page, Latest Additions, SRI Newsletter, LinkedIn, YouTube (India), and Picasa photo gallery, or, see news by country
• See: SRI-Rice Center news for updates on our program's staff, students and activities
• SRI-Rice web pages updated during April 2017: Home page, 2017 additions,all news, events, February additions, March additions, staff news, SWI page, Afghanistan, Haiti, Kenya, Philippines, Tanzania, theses, events, India journals, journals, Vietnam
News from past months
In the Press - April 2017
- Art of giving [Adani Foundation introduces SRI on 4,000 acres in 42 villages empowering 2,050 farmers in Tiroda region of Maharashtra]
April 29, 2017, AhmendabadMirror (Gujarat, India) -
From 50 cavans to 200 cavans per hectare
April 27, 2017, Manila Bulletin (Isabella, Philippines) - The unending plight of farmers [SRI noted as one of the solutions...]
April 26, 2017, Free Press (India) - Akhir tahun, luas lahan organik Banyuwangi mencapai 100 hektar [7 districts in Banyuwangi have 100 ha. of organic SRI; 42 are certified organic]
April 26, 2017, beritajatim.com (Jawa Timur, Indonesia) - Boedi Krisnawan Suhargo, setia menjaga lingkungan dan menyejahterakan petani [SRI will help protect the environment and raise yields]
April 22, 2017, IndoChinatown.com (Jakarta, Indonesia) - CHAP trains Bomi farmers in SRI technology
April 17, 2017, Daily Observer (Liberia) - Why farmers are looking at drought-resistant crops
April 11, 201, Rediff Business (Punjab, India) - Petani wlahar wetan kembangkan beras organik
[Farmers from Wlahar Wetan, Kalibagor, Central Java, got t/ha with organic SRI using local varieties.]
April 4, 2017, SuaraMerdeka (Central Java, Indonesia)
Blog Posts and Website Articles - accessed during April 2017
- Lomborg, Bjorn. 2017. How agricultural priorities could help Haiti. Huffpost. April 24. (also on Haitian-Truth.org website) [Research by Lybbert and Turiansky show mixed results for SRI in Haiti's Artibonite Valley farmers.]
- 2017. DAI Global's facebook page (April 4, 2107) relates the story of Nerie Princivil (right), an early adopter of SRI, which was introduced to her by the Feed the Future USAID Haiti's (AVANSE) project.
- 2017. AIR spotlight summary on “First International Agro biodiversity Congress”. InsightsIAS website. March 15. [SRI noted in the discussion on the significance of the conference.]
- 2017. More with less: Boosting yields with the System of Rice Intensification. Global Agriculture website. [accessed April 7, 2017]
- Kanitkar, Ajit. 2017. Community resource persons are torchbearers of a resurgent countryside. VillageSquare website. April 5.
- Pulla, Priyanka. 2017. Study shows eating red meat, small dietary changes can help India’s water crisis. Factor Daily website. April 5. ["For example, the campaign to increase consumption of fruits and vegetables in the UK even after a decade. A better option, say water researchers, would be to push for better farming practices such as drip irrigation or SRI, which cut water usage."]
- Rosenzweig, Nancy, and Michael Whelchel. 2017. Lotus Foods: Changing the world one grain of rice at a time. Triple Pundit website. April 4. [An interview with Caryl Levine about corporate responsibility and Lotus Foods' commitment to SRI.]
Latest Research / Journal Articles / Theses - links acquired during April 2017
(in order of acquisition. See also complete alphabetized list of journal articles.)
[Note: • Red dot indicates the publication is freely available.]
- • Ndiiri, Jackline Alinda, Norman Uphoff, Bancy Mbura Mati, Patrick Gathogo Home, and Benson Odongo. 2017. Comparison of yields of paddy rice under System of Rice Intensification in Mwea, Kenya. American Journal of Plant Biology 2(2): 49-60. doi:10.11648/j.ajpb.20170202.12 [accessed April 14, 2017]
- • Chebrolu, Shambu Prasad, and Debashish Sen. 2017. “Exploring diversity, networks and knowledge regimes: Transitions and system building in SRI in India”. pp. 116-131. In AgroEcological Transitions: Changes and breakthroughs in the making: Wageningen University and Research. doi:10.18174/407609 [accessed April 12, 2017]
- • Meshram, Minakshi. 2016. A study on impact of System of Rice Intensification (SRI) method of paddy cultivation on production level in Balaghat Block of District Balaghat (M.P.). Master's thesis, College of Agriculture, Indore (M.P.) (India) (79 p., 1.34MB pdf) [accessed April 10, 2017]
- Ram, Hardev, J. P. Singh, et al. 2014. Effect of seedlings age and plant spacing on growth, yield, nutrient uptake and economics of rice (Oryza sativa) genotypes under system of rice intensification. Indian Journal of Agronomy 59(2): 256-260 [accessed April 7, 2017]
- Turiansky, Abbie Annis. 2016. Agricultural technology adoption and the provision of public goods: An impact evaluation from rural Haiti. Ph.D. dissertation. University of California, Davis. (138p. pdf) [accessed April 7, 2017]
New Pages Uploaded on our Website - April 2017
- March 2017- Additions to the SRI-Rice Website
- Styger, Erika. 2017. Improving and Scaling Up the System of Rice Intensification (SRI) in West Africa Key results of SRI-WAAPP Project’s 1st phase (2014-2016). SRI-Rice website. (2p., 586 KB pdf) [uploaded April 14, 2017]
- Kabir, Humayun. 2014. A successful case of enhancing agriculture productivity through IPM/FFS. SRI-Rice website. (1p., 121KB pdf) [Case study of FAO IPM Farmer Field School (FFS) in Khasapaz village of Dehdadi district in Balk Province that is carrying out SWI]. [Uploaded April 5, 2017]
- Kabir, Humayun. 2014. A new hope to revolutionize wheat cultivation in Afghanistan. SRI-Rice website. (1p., 518KB pdf) [Case study of FAO IPM Farmer Field School (FFS) in Teemtak village of Kalafgan district in Takhar Province that is carrying out SWI]. [Uploaded April 5, 2017]
Videos/Audio - April 2017
- Video: 2016 (April 22). Sustainable Sugarcane Initiative (SSI). 19:06 min. Produced by Tamil Nadu Agricultural University. raja mani channel, YouTube. [accessed April 30, 2017]
- Video: 2017 (April 27). How Lotus Foods achieves more crop per drop. 3:11 min. New Hope Network website. [Interview with Lotus Foods' Ken Lee about SRI at the Expo West 2017]
Slide Presentations - April 2017
- Fisher, Lucy. 2017. The system of Rice intensification (SRI): An Eco-Digital Commons for Knowledge Sharing. Poster presented at the 2nd Agricultural and Climate Change conference, Sitges, Spain, March 26-28, 2017.
