June 2017- Additions to the SRI-Rice Website
(Links to online material)
• SRI-RICE STATISTICS FOR June 2017:
SRI-Rice website: 3,460 unique visitors (3,665 last month) from 89 countries (94 last month) logged 4,462 sessions (4,854 last month) in which 8,186 pages (8,842 last month) were viewed. [Top ten user countries in order of sessions: India, USA, Philippines, Malaysia, Tanzania, Nigeria, Nepal, Myanmar, Canada, Indonesia. Note: This is the first time that Myanmar was in the top 10 users.]
Facebook pages: 1) SRI-Rice: All-time likes 2,353 (19 new). 2) SRI Equipment Innovators Exchange: 340 members (5 new) 3) SRI West Africa: 2,229 members, SICA America Latina: 1,027 total likes
YouTube (primary): 4,063 (3,123 last month) new views this month for our 88 uploads. 473 views (331 last month) for our 41 playlists (not including our India YouTube channel). 309 subscribers (33 new). 103,972 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: 1,625 followers (21 new this month)
Slideshare: 6,480 (5,222 last month) views new this month; 469 slideshows/posters total uploaded, 214 followers (1 new)
Research Databases: There are 1,143 items in our new Zotero research database (41 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 June 2017: 2017 additions, about us, contact us, events, home page, listservs/orgs, May additions, journals, Burkina Faso, Cambodia, Colombia, Laos, Mali, Philippines, Thailand, Vietnam, India journals, India news, Indonesia, Malaysia, Malaysia archives, Nepal, Thailand, Tanzania, publications, Spanish, staff news.
News from past months
In the Press - June 2017
- Gambia: WAAPP 3rd Technical Regional Steering Committee Meeting wraps up in Banjul [WAAPP meeting report says SRI research infrastructure and human capacity have been augmented and strengthened]
June 27, 2017, AllAfrica (The Gambia ) - Rice and food security: Serious constraints [SRI noted for environmentally increasing rice production in this article written for Nepal's 14th National Rice Day.]
June 26, 2017, The Himalayan Times (Nepal) - Experts encourage paddy farmers to take up SRI cultivation in district
June 18, 2017, The Times of India (Andhra Pradesh, India) - Nurturing farmers in Phek district [CWWS team conducted on-field training on SRI in Enhulumi and Lasumi villages on June 16]
June 17, 2017, The Morung Express (Nagaland, India) - ¿Qué es el SRI?
June 16, 2017. El Telégrafo (Ecuador)
Blog Posts and Website Articles - accessed during June 2017
- Togola, Mamadou. 2017. Agriculture: l’OPIB s’inquiète de la présence de la cécidomyie du riz. Journal Scientifique et Technique du Mali (JSTM) website. June 26. [French article on controlling the African rice gall midge that is affecting rice in Mali. SRI is one of the suggested measures.]
- Damassa, Thomas. 2017. 4 reasons why tackling super pollutants now can bolster the fight against Trump’s anti-climate agenda. The Politics of Poverty blog. June 26. [Reasons to reduce short-term climate pollutants (STCPs), which includes methane.]
- Schiffman, Richard. 2017. Running dry: Seeking solutions to South Asia’s looming water crisis. YaleEnvironment360 website. June 29. [Interview with climatologist Sonali McDermid about water issues in South Asia - She will be studying SRI in Tamil Nadu.]
- 2017? Kingabwa Rice Intensification Project phase II (PIRK II) - 2015-2018. EUCORD website. [Description of a four year project centered on SRI in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. [Thus far, this USAID-funded EUCORD project has leveled 72 ha of land, installed a water pump for controlled irrigation and trained over 1,200 farmers in SRI and other practices and provided them with technology packets.]
- 2017. SRI: Système de Riziculture Intensive. Tinga Neere website. [Website of the NGO Tinga Neere, which recount four years of work on SRI in Burkina Faso.]
- 2017. Sunria verkiest mensenhanden boven machines. BioJournaal website. June 9. [Emily Sutanto talks about her SRI brand. Sunria, in the Netherlands.]
- 2017. Kendala atau masalah SRI (System of Rice Intensification) bagi petani. SampulPertanian website. June 9, 2017. [Indonesian language description of problems associated with SRI cultivation.]
- Sahu, Krushna Ch. 2017. Better yield with customised rice cultivation. India Water Portal. June 8. [Modified SRI in Kendrapara, Odisha, India]
- Meniano, Sarwell Q. 2017. Samar town to showcase rice planting technologies. metrocebu website. June 8. [Participating firms of Samar rice derby (Samar, Philippines) are SL Agritech, Bayer Crop Science, Syngenta Philippines, Longping Tropical Rice Development, PhilsCAT, DuPont Pioneer Hi-Bred and, SeedWorks, PhilRice and, the System of Rice Intensification technology led by DA regional office.]
- Brick, Tricia. 2017. Improving crop resilience and income for rice farmers in Thai Nguyen Province, Vietnam. Buddhist Global Relief website. June 8. [Together with ICC at (ICC) of Thai Nguyen University, BGR funds supported 200 farmers in 9 villages to attend SRI Farmer Field Schools, trainings and conferences in Northern Vietnam].
- Plummer, Lucy. 2017. A pioneer in climate change action, Odisha will now help others prepare for natural disasters! The Better India website. June 8. [Odisha was one of the first states to begin work on a Climate Change Action Plan in 2009 and in 2010 it officially became the pioneering state. Under the first phase of the plan, several initiatives centred around preparing for a disaster were set in action, including promotion of SRI, livelihood diversification.....]
- Diluxi, Arya. 2017. Research fellow position in DST-SERB project on modelling of greenhouse gas emissions from paddy fields @ University of Burdwan. Bioteknika website. May 29. [Recruitment of one Junior Research Fellow (JRF) under DST-SERB Project entitled “Modelling of Greenhouse Gas Emissions from Paddy Fields through Conventional, System of Rice Intensification and Zero-tillage Practices in Burdwan District, West Bengal, India” in the Department of Environmental Science, The University of Burdwan.]
- Greenaway, Twilight. 2017. Carbon farming and cutting food waste: Climate solutions that don’t require Trump’s buy-in. Cvil Eats website. June 5. [SRI noted as sustainable food production technique in Project Drawdown book review.]
Latest Research / Journal Articles / Theses - links acquired during June 2017
(in order of acquisition. See also complete alphabetized list of journal articles.)
[Note: • Red dot indicates the publication is freely available.]
- Varma, Poornima. 2017. Adoption of System of Rice Intensification under information constraints: An analysis for India. The Journal of Development Studies (online first, June 15, 2017) pp. doi: 10.1080/00220388.2017.1336541 [accessed June 30, 2017]
- Doni, Febri, C. R. C. M. Zain, et al. 2017. A simple, efficient, and farmer-friendly Trichoderma-based biofertilizer evaluated with the SRI Rice Management System. Organic Agriculture (online first June 2017) pp: 1-19. doi: 10.1007/s13165-017-0185-7 [accessed June 30, 2017]
- • Susila, Eka, Nelson Elita, and Yefriwati. 2016. Examination of FMA indigenous isolates on the growth and infection of rice roots in SRI method. Prosiding Seminar Nasional Masyarakat Biodiversitas Indonesia, 2(1): 71-75 (August 2016). doi: 10.13057/psnmbi/m020114 [accessed June 30, 2017]
- • Ali, Rubea Mohamed. 2015. Evaluation of the performance of system of rice intensification (SRI) in Bumbwisudi rice irrigation scheme, Zanzibar. MSc. thesis. Sokoine University of Agriculture (Morogoro, Tanzania). (1.89 MB, 115p. pdf) [accessed June 30, 2017]
- Permata, Nike Dyah. 2014. Dinamika penerapan metode System of Rice Intensification (SRI) pada usahatani padi di Desa Jatikerto, Kecamatan Kromengan, Kabupaten Malang. MS thesis, Universitas Brawijaya (Indonesia) [abstract only] [accessed July 2, 2017]
- • Hasanah, N. A. I., B. I. Setiawan,C. Arif, and S. Widodo. 2017. SRI paddy growth simple prediction model. International Journal of Civil Engineering and Technology 8(6): 423-429. [accessed June 30, 2017]
- • Saritha, R., and M. Srinivas. 2017. On-farm evaluation of low input rice production system under tank-fed system. International Journal of Farm Sciences 7(2): 94-96 [accessed June 2, 2017]
New Links to Publications - June 2017
- Ravandale, Seema, Vinod Niranjan and Debashish Sen. 2017. Building climate resilience. LEISA INDIA 19(2): 5-9. June. [Issue on climate change and ecological approaches. Article is on SRI and SCI in the Bundelkhand region of Madyha Pradesh, India.]
- Mysore, Ashwin. 2017. Workshop Report: Second Regional Review and Planning Workshop, 23-25 April 2017, Hanoi, Vietnam. SRI-LMB website. June. (72p. pdf) [Workshop report about the project on Sustaining and Enhancing the Momentum for Innovation and Learning around the System of Rice Intensification (SRI) in the Lower Mekong River Basin.]
New Pages Uploaded on our Website - June 2017
- Uphoff, Norman. 2017. Publications on the System of Rice Intensification (SRI) by Norman Uphoff. SRI-Rice website. June 4. (8p, 226KB pdf)
- May 2017- Additions to the SRI-Rice Website
Videos/Audio - June 2017
- Video: 2017 (June 15). Intensive Rice System - Systeme Rizicole Intensif. 4:07 (SRI section begins at minute 1:47). africanews channel, YouTube. [Business Africa TV program talks about SRI in Burundi]
Slide Presentations - June 2017
- SRI-LMB. 2017. System of Rice Intensification: Path to Sustainable Rice Production. SRI-LMB website. June. [Poster for World Environment Day developed by the Asian Institute of Technology's SRI-LMB (Lower Mekong Basin) Project.] [accessed June 15, 2017]
- Styger, Erika. 2017. Alternate Wetting and Drying and the System of Rice Intensification for Sustainable Irrigated Rice Production. Presentation at the Water in Agriculture Innovation Series, World Bank, Washington DC, June 8, 2017.
- Quintero, Jose Alberto Yau. 2017. 5 slides. Reto para la seguridad alimentaria en ALC - Validacion de practicas agricolas arroceras para mejorar el uso eficiente del agua. Presented at the XII Taller de Seguimiento Technico de Proyectos FONTAGRO, La Ceiba, Honduras, June 20-23, 2017.
- Witkowski, Kelly. 2017. 6 slides. Cultivar mas con menos - Adaptacion, validacion y promocion del Sistema Intensivo del Cultivo Arrocero (SRI) en las Americas como una respuesta al cambio climatico. Presented at the XII Taller de Seguimiento Technico de Proyectos FONTAGRO, La Ceiba, Honduras, June 20-23, 2017.
