January 2019 - Additions to the SRI-Rice Website
(Links to online material)
• SRI-RICE STATISTICS FOR January 2019:
SRI-Rice website: 3,481 users (2,725 last month) from 80 countries (76 last month) logged 4,221 sessions (3,375 last month) in which 7,103 pages (5,749 last month) were viewed. [Top ten countries in order of number of users: India (1,004), USA (619), Philippines, UK, Tanzania, Canada, Nepal, Malaysia, France, Germany.]
Facebook pages: 1) SRI-Rice: All-time likes 2,520; 2,504 follows. 2) SRI Equipment Innovators Exchange: 326 (349 last month as facebook is purging non-active members), SRI West Africa: 2,047 members, SICA America Latina: 1,121 total likes; 1,132 follows.
YouTube (primary): 2,764 (2,798 last month) new views this month for our 89 uploads. 304 views (227 last month) for our 41 playlists (not including our India YouTube channel). 840 subscribers (23 new). 162,359 all time views of our videos. 88,924 lifetime views of our playlists [NOTE!: The 8 India playlists from the SRI India video channel are now accessible on the main SRI-Rice video channel].
Twitter: 1,769 followers (9 new this month)
Slideshare: 9,098 (10,312 last month) views new this month; 520 slideshows/posters total uploaded, 237 followers
Research Databases: There are 1,505 items (1,141 journal articles), in our Zotero research database (25 new) (700+ of these appear in the Mendeley SRI Research database, but we are not adding to this 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 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 January 2019: 2018, 2019, events, home page, journal articles, India journal articles, India news, month index, December 2018, 2019 staff news, 2018 staff news, other crops, other SCI, videos, Benin, Cambodia, DPRK, India, Indonesia, Iran, Kenya, Liberia, Nepal, Nepal archives, Philippines, South Korea, Tanzania, Vietnam..
News from past months
In the Press - January 2019
- The miracle method for sustainable rice – and bigger harvests [Article by John Vidal]
January 30, 2019, The Guardian - Green touch to rice production [Farmers in
WWF pilot project in Long Langai village, Ba’Kelalan highlands of Sarawak, harvest local organic SRI rice (Adan variety)]
January 22, 2019, The Star Online (Sarawak, Malaysia)
(Similar article Jan. 19 in The Star Online: Making rice production more environment-friendly) - Cambodia prepared for EU rice tariffs: Ministry [Brief mention of SRI by vice president of Amru Rice Cambodia, who notes SRI as one of the things that might boost competitiveness of rice exports.]
January 21, 2019, Khmer Times (Cambodia)
- Ditjen PSP Kementan sebut petani mulai cerdas dan hemat kelola air [The Directorate General of Agricultural Infrastructure and Facilities (PSP) of the Ministry of Agriculture, highlights SRI with Jajar Legowo as an example of innovations they are recommending to optimize agricultural water use.]
January 17, 2019, BreakingNews (Indonesia) - Liberian rice company closing gap on imported rice [CHAP promotes rice self-sufficency and SRI for Liberia]
January 15, 2019, Front Page Africa (Liberia) - Gaston Dossouhoui à propos des perspectives de l’économie béninoise:Le Bénin, une puissance agricole à l’horizon 2021 [12 ha will be planted to SRI in GIZ-financed Prosol project.]
December 20, 2018, Le Matinal (Benin) (accessed January 13, 2019) - Organic farming brings huge returns [Harvest of organic SRI in Ba Kelalan is part of pilot project by WWF-Malaysia through a RM1.5-million funding by CIMB Islamic Bank Berhad in a three-year partnership, beginning in 2017.]
January 9, 2019, Borneo Post (Sarawak, Malaysia) [Similar article in Dayak Daily] - Scientific farming to be promoted to increase output [Cooperative farms will be encouraged to introduce advanced farming methods, including the system of rice intensification, [..and other activities]
January 6, 2019, KCNA Watch (Source: Pyongyang Times) (North Korea) - WWF Malaysia bersama media lawat Ba' Kelalan, Cabaran Eko HBH 7-12 Jan [Media event for SRI in WWF project in Sarawak, January 7-12, 2019]
January 6, 2019, Utusan Borneo (Sarawak, Malaysia) - Reducing carbon emission by altering the method of farming [Info from the Minister of State for Ministry of Agriculture & Farmers Welfare lists SRI as number 1 of 8 suggested soil, water and crop management practices that reduce carbon emission.]
January 2, 2019, The Open View (India) - Binh Thuân développe des modèles d’agriculture intelligente face au climat [Update on the NGO SNV's SRI projects related to women and climate change in Vietnam.]
December 28, 2018, Le Courrier du Vietnam (Vietnam) [accessed January 4, 2019]
Blog Posts and Website Articles - accessed during January 2019
- Preiss, Danielle. 2019. Nepalese rice farmers boost yields by sowing fewer plants and cutting water. National Public Radio, The Salt section. January 30. [Nepali SRI story that also has an 3:50 min audio component on the page.]
- Price, Samuel. 2019. ‘SRI’ in Kilombero Valley: Potential, misconception and reality. Future Agricultures blog. January 25. [Article about SRI in Tanzania's Kilombero district and some of the issue with Kilombero Plantation Limited (KPL), which has trained over 8,000 smallholder farmers in 10 villages over the past few years.]
- Prudhviraj, CA Bhanu. 2019. Whether loan waiver to farmers is one stop solution for eliminating agrarian distress in India? Taxguru website. January 18. [Loan waivers should be a last resort. SRI among the items cited a needs of the hour that related to long term solutions rather than short term benefits.]
- Green, Duncan. 2019. Book review: Can we know better? by Robert Chambers. Oxfam blogs. January 11. [Review says...the aid community ..." rejects heresies for far too long, until the evidence becomes overwhelming (e.g. System of Rice Intensification").
- 2019. Making rice production more environment-friendly. WWF Malaysia website. January 8.
- 2019. Vale Indonesia tetap survive kelola tambang selama 5 dekade. CNBC Indonesia website. January 11. [Article about PT Vale Indonesia, which notes their CSR work promoting organic SRI in Indonesia, including national organic certification for their rice.]
- 2019. Lotus Foods urges consumers to “Do The Rice Thing™”. Specialty Food Association website. January 8.
- Ghosh, Sahana. 2019. Eyes in the sky: Space technology aiding Meghalaya to expand boro rice cultivation. Mongabay website. January 7. [Meghalaya state in India wants to increase boro rice, which is, according to the article, is well-suited for SRI.]
- 201?. The Farmers’ Clubs Programme. Humana People to People (Laos) website. [94 farmers got seeds and learned to grow SRI rice and they planted 94 Rai (15.66 Ha). [Ban Phamueng and Ban Phadai, Bolikhan District, and has enrolled 1,000 participating farmers for 2 years. (note: not sure which years)]
- Ariyani, Desi. 2019. Penerapan Sistem tanam SRI (System of Rice Intensification) Organik pada padi organik. Cybex website. January 6. [Cyberextension instructional material in Indonesian.]
- Basia, Mathet, and Lydia Boclig. 2019. Towards rice sufficiency, System of Rice Intensification (SRI) trial farm in Lamag. Center for Development Programs in the Cordillera website. January 5. [Lamag Farmers’ Association (LFA) in barangay Lamag of Quirino, Ilocos Sur, Philippines are experimenting with SRI with help from Center for Development Programs in the Cordillera (CDPC).]
- 2018. Initiatives to reduce carbon emissions from farming. GKToday, Current Affairs website. January 3. [Info from the Minister of State for Ministry of Agriculture & Farmers Welfare lists SRI as one of suggested soil, water and crop management practices that reduce carbon emission.]
- Priya, Annu. 2019. By altering the method of farming, reducing carbon emission. Latest Indian Story blog. January 2. [Info from the Minister of State for Ministry of Agriculture & Farmers Welfare lists SRI as one of suggested soil, water and crop management practices that reduce carbon emission.]
Latest Research / Journal Articles / Theses - links acquired during January 2019
(in order of acquisition. See also complete alphabetized list of journal articles.)
[Note: • Red dot indicates the publication is freely available.]
- • Dwipa, Indra, et al. 2018. Emergence of phyllochron of 3 rice varieties in different time of land flooding in System of Rice Intensification (SRI). International Journal of Environment, Agriculture and Biotechnology 3(6): 2177-2181. doi:10.22161/ijeab/3.6.30 [accessed January 30, 2019]
- Gautam, Priyanka, et al. 2019. Inter-relationship between intercepted radiation and rice yield influenced by transplanting time, method, and variety. International Journal of Biometeorology [online first] pp 1–13. doi:10.1007/s00484-018-01667-w [accessed January 30, 2019]
- • Efrizal, Ahmad, et al. 2019. Uji berbagai dosis pupuk herbafarma granul terhadap pertumbuhan dan produksi tanaman padi sawah (Oryza sativa L.) dengan metode SRI. Jurnal Ilmiah Pertanian 15(2): 95-104. [accessed January 29, 2019]
- Ghoshal, R. and D. Basu. 2018. Comparative analysis of System of Rice Intensification (SRI) and traditional technology of rice cultivation with respect to some selected parameters in farmers' field conditions. 14(2): 199-201.[accessed January 29, 2019]
- Sunadi, Herman, W., and N. Y. Yessirita.2019. The influence of pruning time of tiller and cow manure doses on growth and yield of paddy rice (Oryza sativa L.) in the SRI method. INA-Rxiv papers (preprint) 10.31227/osf.io/de3a9 [accessed January 29, 2019]
- • Efendi, et al. 2015. Morpho-agronomic performances of rice (Oryza sativa L.) landraces under organic cultivation of SRI method. International Journal of Agricultural Research 10(2): 74-82. doi:10.3923/ijar.2015.74.82 [accessed January 19, 2019]
- • Khatri-Chhetri, Arun, et al. 2019. Potential of climate-smart agriculture in reducing women farmers’ drudgery in high climatic risk areas. Climatic Change (online first) pp 1–14. doi:10.1007/s10584-018-2350-8
- *• Divya, V. et al. 2015. Growth, yield attributes, yield and economics of sesame (Sesmum indicum L.) as influenced by System of Crop Intensification (SCI) practices. Andhra Pradesh Journal of Agricultural Sciences 1(2): 62-66. [January 16, 2019]
- • Isnawan, Bambang Heri, et al. 2018. A study of physiology of rice varieties with intermittent irrigation and conventional method on System of Rice Intensification. Paper presented at the 4th International Conference on Food, Agriculture and Natural Resources (FANRes 2018), Yogyakarta, Indonesia. [January 16, 2019]
- • Khadka, Ram B., and Norman Uphoff. 2019. Effects of Trichoderma seedling treatment with System of Rice Intensification management and with conventional management of transplanted rice. PeerJ: e5877. doi:10.7717/peerj.5877 [January 15, 2019]
- Lee, Yun-ho, et al. 2018. On-farm study of the System of Rice Intensification (SRI) of rainfed lowland in southern Cambodia (캄보디아 남부 천수답지역의 벼 집약관리재배 시스템(SRI)에 대한 현장 연구). Korea International Agricultural Development Association 30(4): 285-291 [January 15, 2019]
- Dastan, Salman. 2012. Evaluation on agronomic and eco-physiological indices of lowland rice genotypes under modified agronomical systems. PhD dissertation, Islamic Azad University, Tehran, Iran. [abstract uploaded January 5, 2019]
- • Dastan, Salman, et al. 2016. CO2 emission and global warming potential (GWP) of energy consumption in paddy field production systems. Būm/shināsī-i kishāvarzī 6(4): 823-835. [accessed January 5, 2019]
- • Minithra, R., and D. Suresh Kumar. 2019. An economic analysis of technology adoption coupled with conjunctive use of ground water in tank command area. Asian Journal of Agricultural Extension, Economics & Sociology 29(1): 1-7. doi:10.9734/AJAEES/2019/45946 [accessed January 5, 2019]
New Links to Publications (pdfs, books, etc.) - January 2019
- Uphoff, N., and A. K. Thakur. 2019. An agroecological strategy for adapting to climate change: The System of Rice Intensification (SRI). In: Sarkar A., Sensarma S., vanLoon G. (eds) Sustainable Solutions for Food Security. Springer, Cham. doi:10.1007/978-3-319-77878-5_12 [accessed January 19, 2019]
- Chambers, Robert. 2017. Can we know better? Reflections for development. Practical Action Publishing Ltd., UK. 122 p. doi: 10.3362/9781780449449
Documents Uploaded and New Pages Created/Updated on our Website - January 2019
- [Web pages updated during December: 2018, events, journal articles, India journal articles, India news, month index, November 2018, theses, videos, Bangladesh, Guinea, Indonesia, Liberia, Malaysia, Nepal, Pakistan, Philippines, Vietnam.]
- [abstract uploaded January 5, 2019] Dastan, Salman. 2012. Evaluation on agronomic and eco-physiological indices of lowland rice genotypes under modified agronomical systems. PhD dissertation, Islamic Azad University, Tehran, Iran. [abstract uploaded January 5, 2019]
- Fisher, Lucy. 2018. December additions to the SRI-Rice website. SRI-Rice website.
Videos/Audio - January 2019
- Video: 2019 (January 30). Bupati bersama Pertamina lakukan panen padi perdana SRI Organik. 4:45 min. Humas Protokol Setda Blora channel, YouTube. [in Indonesian; Blora Regency Head and other govt. officials attend harvest of Organic SRI in Bajo Village (Central Java)]
- Audio: 2019 (January 30). Nepalese rice farmers boost yields by sowing fewer plants and cutting water. National Public Radio, The Salt section. 3:49 min. [Danielle Preiss reports on SRI in Nepal in this NPR radio clip].
- Nepalese rice farmers boost yields by sowing fewer plants and cutting water
- Audio: 2019 (January 29). rier Conditions Force Researchers To Find New Rice Farming Method.
- Video: 2017. Lotus Foods. 3:21 min. Climate Collaborative channel, Vimeo. [Video about Lotus Foods' commitment to importing SRI-grown rice.]
- Video: 2019 (January 23). புதிய முறையில் நெல்நாற்று உற்பத்தி System of Rice Intensification (SRI) Cultivation. 2:59 min. Aalaya channel, YouTube. [Explanation of SRI from India. Local language]
Presentations - January 2019
- Bimba, Robert. 2019. 1901 - Community of Hope Agriculture Project Update to Liberia MOA 2019. 19 slides. Presentation at the Ministry of Agriculture, Liberia, January 11. [uploaded January 17, 2019]
- Isahak, Anizan. 2018. SRI Network in Malaysia: The SRI-Mas experience. Presentation at the The Workshop to Enhance Cooperation and Sharing among SRI National Networks in Asia, held October 18-19, 2018, at the Leverage Business Hotel-Skudai, Malaysia [uploaded January 9, 2019.]
* = System of Crop Intensification (SCI)
