August 2017- Additions to the SRI-Rice Website
(Links to online material)
• SRI-RICE STATISTICS FOR AUGUST 2017:
SRI-Rice website: 3,584 unique visitors (3,501 last month) from 86 countries (86 last month) logged 4,655 sessions (4,658 last month) in which 8,462 pages (8,384 last month) were viewed. [Top ten user countries in order of sessions: India, Philippines, USA, Malawi, Australia, Tanzania, Indonesia, Nigeria, Nepal and Malaysia. Note: Malawi was #4 of 86 countries with 68 new users and 132 sessions during August. Also Philippines has once again surpassed the USA in number of users.]
Facebook pages: 1) SRI-Rice: All-time likes 2,373 (14 new). 2) SRI Equipment Innovators Exchange: 341 members 3) SRI West Africa: 2,190 members, SICA America Latina: 1,050 total likes (25 new)
YouTube (primary): 2,911 (4,238 last month) new views this month for our 88 uploads. 221 views (376 last month) for our 41 playlists (not including our India YouTube channel). 440 subscribers (18 new). 111,304 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: 1,652 followers (18 new this month)
Slideshare: 7,734 (8,862 last month) views new this month; 469 slideshows/posters total uploaded, 215 followers (0 new)
Research Databases: There are 1,162 items in our new Zotero research database (8 new). (700+ of these appear in the Mendeley SRI Research database, but are not added to regularly). 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 August 2017: 2017 news, August 2017 news, events, home page, SC/other, Burundi, Cameroon, Colombia, Malaysia, Myanmar, Tanzania, videos, Spanish docs
News from past months
In the Press - August 2017
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System of root intensification increases mustard yield: Experts [SRI adaption for mustard (SMI) in Odisha, Chhattisgarh, Rajasthan, Madhya Pradesh, Bihar and Jharkhand yielded up to 57 quintals/hectare according to Alliance for Sustainable and Holistic Agriculture (ASHA).]
August 31, 2017, India Today (New Delhi, India) - Profitable crop combination in a small farm [SRI farmers in Isabella province who quadrupled rice production with SRI to plant next season's SRI crop in January. They are now expanding to other crops.]
August 30, 2017, Manila Bulletin (Philippines) - Japanese Government gives boost to rice production
August 17, 2017, Daily Observer (Liberia) -
Caring for rivers to preserve Sarawak’s highlands
[In Ba’kelalan, Sarawak, CIMB Islamic Bank / WWF-Malaysia project will promote sustainable rice farming (via SRI) to minimise forest conversion to agriculture.]
August 15, 2017, Star2.com (Sarawak, Malaysia) - Burundi: Le marais de Nyavyamo donnera près de 5.380 tonnes de riz
August 15, 2017, Africa Generation News (Burundi) - Dealing with adversities Goa’s farmers face
August 14, 2017, Navhind Times (Goa, India) - Tăng 150% sản lượng nhờ hệ thống thâm canh lúa cải tiến
August 8, 2017, BOMOI.com (Vietnam) - MoAD to support drought-hit farmers [Ministry of Ag Development to introduce SRI into Terai districts as part of drought resistance program]
- August 6, 2017, The Himalayan Times (Nepal)
- SRI dikearap ulih nambah asil padi orang bumai di Long Semadoh
August 2, 2017, Utusan Borneo (Sarawak, Malaysia)
Blog Posts and Website Articles - accessed during August 2017
- Nitin, B. 2017. Meet the organic farmer who transformed a barren wasteland near Hyderabad into a lush farm. The News Minute website, August 17. [Story of GN Naidu, one of the first SRI farmers in Telangana].
- Markley, Stephan. 2017. What about hope? ‘Drawdown’ aims to reverse planetary catastrophe. Paste Magazine August 17. [SRI gets a prominent mention.]
- 2017. How rice intensification technology has doubled production in Kilosa. IPP media website. [Tanzania] [accessed August 15, 2017]
- Bhagwat, Shreeya. 2017. Enterprising woman farmer charts a path to prosperity. Village Square website. August 11. [Maharashtra woman promotes SRI and other methods after joining BAIF project.]
- Sarian, Zac B. 2017. DENNIS MIGUEL: Money is not everything. zac b. sarian blog. [Dennis Miguel's reaction to getting the front cover in the Philippines' Agriculture magazine regarding his efforts to break the world SRI record with SRI methods.]
Latest Research / Journal Articles / Theses - links acquired during August 2017
(in order of acquisition. See also complete alphabetized list of journal articles.)
[Note: • Red dot indicates the publication is freely available.]
- • Imran, M. S. et al. 2017. Design of transplanting mechanism for system of rice intensification (SRI) transplanter in Kedah, Malaysia. IOP Conference Series: Materials Science and Engineering 226: 1-7 doi:10.1088/1757-899X/226/1/012036
- Baruah, Amvrin,Rakesh Singh, and Ravishankar Pardhi. 2017. An economic analysis of yield gap and sustainability of System of Rice Intensification (SRI) in Assam. International Journal of Agriculture, Environment and Biotechnology 10(3): 401-406. doi:10.5958/2230-732X.2017.00048.1
- • Sumant, Tiryak Kumar. 2017. Promotion of System of Rice Intensification (SRI) method in mid-central table land zone of Odisha. International Journal of Science, Environment and Technology 6(4): 2276–2282. [accessed August 8, 2017]
- Das, Anup, Jayanta Layek, et al. 2017. Modified system of rice intensification for higher crop and water productivity in Meghalaya, India: opportunities for improving livelihoods for resource-poor farmers. Paddy and Water Environment (online first, Aug, 7, 2017) doi:10.1007/s10333-017-0609-8 [accessed August 8, 2017]
- Chapagain, Tejendra. 2017. The System of Rice Intensification and Conventional Rice Farming: Responding to Crop Growth, Yield and Water Productivity. Nova Science Publishers (online). (US$73.80)
- Uphoff, Norman. 2017. SRI: An agroecological strategy to meet multiple objectives with reduced reliance on inputs. Agroecology and Sustainable Food Systems 41(7): 825-854. doi: 10.1080/21683565.2017.1334738
New Pages Uploaded on our Website - August 2017
Videos/Audio - August 2017
- Video: 2017 (August 21). Sistema Intensivo del Cultivo del Arroz. 14:24 min. IICA noticias channel, YouTube. [Proyecto “Cultivar más con menos: Adaptación, Validación y Promoción del Sistema Intensivo del Cultivo Arrocero (SRI) en las Américas como una respuesta al cambio climático”, en República Dominicana.]
- Video: 2017 (August 21). Cultivar más con menos. 7:09 min. IICA noticias channel, YouTube. [Nota técnica sobre el Sistema Intensivo del Cultivo Arrocero (SRI), para la sección de la Federación Nacional de Arroceros (FEDEARROZ) de Colombia en el programa “Vistazo Agropecuario”, del canal TVAgro.]
- Video: 2017 (August 12). Farmers view about System of Rice intensification (SRI) in Bangladesh. Tanvir Shatil channel, YouTube. [Farmer interviews from from an RCT-based project on Technology Adoption and Food Security in Rural Bangladesh.]
- Video: 2017 (August 1). 10 Water Management and Weeding in SRI Rice 3. 9:51 min. digitalgreen channel, YouTube. [Indian language]
Slide Presentations - August 2017
- Witkowski, Kelly. 2017. CSA through SRI: Too Good to be True? 21 slides. Presentation at the 53rd Annual Conference of the Association for International Agriculture & Rural Development (AIARD), Washington, DC in early June 4-6, 2017. [Accessed August 3, 2017]
