February 2023 - Additions to the SRI-Rice Website (Links to online material)
(See previous months acquisitions - 2013-2022)
• SRI-RICE STATISTICS for February 2023:
SRI-Rice website: 1,835 new users (1,800 users last month) from 75* (78 last month) logged 2,564 sessions (2,325 last month) in which 3,689 pages (3,590 last month) were viewed. [Top ten countries in order of number of new users: India (573), USA (338), Philippines (74), Japan (56), Nepal (52), UK (31), China (38), Indonesia (28), Pakistan (30), Nigeria (23)
* # of countries now includes those with 3 or more people visiting/month regardless of time spent on site or pages viewed
Facebook pages: 1) SRI-Rice: 2,600 followers. 2) SRI Equipment Innovators Exchange: 398 members (5 new). 3) SRI West Africa: 1,821 members. 4) SICA America Latina: 1,154 follows 5) SRI en las Américas: 74 members(2 new)
SRI-Rice Newsletter: 195 views (68 last month)
YouTube (primary): 522 (759 last month) new views this month for our 91 uploads. 39 views (68 last month) for our 41 playlists (not including our India YouTube channel). 1,729 subscribers (2 new); 286,373 all-time views of our videos (2009-2022); 95,261 lifetime views of our playlists (2013-2021) [NOTE! The 8 India playlists from the SRI India video channel are now accessible on the main SRI-Rice video channel].
Twitter: 1,973 followers
Slideshare: 1,423 views this month; 545 slideshows/posters (2 new) total uploaded, 263 followers
Research Databases: There are 2,229 items (2,214 journal articles), in our Zotero research database (15 new)
• For additional global news see: our News page, Latest Additions, SRI Newsletter, LinkedIn, or see news by country
• SRI-Rice web pages updated during February 2023: 2023 additions (new page), January 2022 additions (new page), Benin, China, Ecuador, Indonesia, Iraq, Kenya, Malaysia, Philippines, Sierra Leone, journal articles, India journal articles, India news, India videos, events, research network, theses, videos
In the Press - February 2023
- Shortcomings in procurement hit farmers in Odisha [During kharif season, SRI yield per acre went up to 26 to 29 quintal per acre.]
February 23, 2023, New Indian Express (Odisha, India) - Inadvertida técnica arrocera en Ecuador [Opinion piece by Alfredo Saltos Guale]
February 19, 2023, El Universo (Ecuador)
- Promoting agriculture in different districts of Odisha : Mr. Muralidhar Adhikari, CEO, Jaivik SRI Farmers Producer Company Ltd.
February 15, 2023, Interview Times (Odisha, India) - Resah dengan kualitas tanah, 50 petani Tulungagung ikuti pelatihan padi organik [50 farmers in Gondang District, East Java, trained Jan. 23-26 by Komunitas SRI Organik Nusantara.]
February 5, 2023, ZNews (Jawa Timur, Indonesia)
Blog Posts and Website Articles - accessed during February 2023
- February blog items from SRI-2030: SRI-2030 joins GACSA (February 3), SRI vs AWD (February 24), ICSCI Conference #3 (February 16), SRI and SDGs (February 9), and Women and SRI (February 2).
- Kemkaran, Linden. 2023. Manure, the ‘paddies paradox’ and the spread of malaria in irrigated rice areas. Natural Resources Institute, University of Greenwich website, news section. February.
- Meyer, Paul. 2023. Interview: The Plant-ness of the plant with Dr. Erika Styger. Eco Farming Daily. February 28. [This is an except of an interview by Paul Meyer published in the February 2023 issue of ACRES USA magazine.]
- 2023. Metode tanam SRI (System of Rice Intensification). Kabupaten Ngawi (Jawa Timur) website. February 21. [Overview of SRI on the Ngawi Regency (East Java) website]
- Singh, Kachan. 2023. Modern farming: गोवा की विशाखा ने अपनाई आधुनिक खेती, SRI तकनीक में माहिर. Kisan of India website. February 19.
- Bakpe, Cédric Joawo. 2023. Systeme de Riziculture Intensive : Une pratique agricole mise en vogue dans plusieurs communes du Bénin. Le Rural website. February 14. (There is an English/French option button on the page.) [SRI project in Benin carried out by GIZ-ProCIVA]
- 2023. Chinese rice farming trials cut methane emissions. China Dialogue website. February 7. [Story on methane reduction in China includes SRI, but recommends furrow irrigation method instead in one area.]
(Here's a Chinese version published 2/13/23 on the Environmental Information Center website: 稻田甲烷減排：中國水稻種植正在發生的變化 and an Indonesian version published the Komparatif website on 2/28/23.) - 2023? When you see it, you believe it. Growing Hope Globally blog. [Article on SRI project carried out by the Nepal Jahada Program, led by Mennonite Central Committee and Local Partner SAHAS (Group of Helping Hands) in Nepal. Rajendra Uprety is the trainer.] [accessed February 10, 2023]
- 2023. Celebrating Jubilee Justice for Black History Month. Lotus Foods website. February 1.
- Doni, Febri. 2022. Training module: The System of Rice Intensification (SRI). IndoSRInet website. [Practical material for implementing SRI practices authored by the Indonesian SRI network (IndoSRInet) and partners in Indonesia.] [accessed February 5, 2023]
- date? Livelihood and Skill Development. Rural Educational Activities for Development (READ) website. [Website says there are 400 farmers using SRI and they plant to extend to another 2,000 in this Odisha program within the next five years. Not clear when this was written] [accessed February 4, 2023]
- date? System of Rice Intensification (SRI). Ek Soch Foundation website [SRI project of the Ek Soch Foundation in Uttar Pradesh, India.] [accessed February 4, 2023]
- Styger, Erika. The plant-ness of the plant. ACRES U.S.A. magazine, February 2023 issue. [Interview with Erika Styger of SRI, with additional insights on the Fibonacci sequence and other useful viewpoints. See full issue of the ACRES U.S.A. Feb. issue here.]
Latest Research / Journal Articles / Theses - links acquired during February 2023
(in order of acquisition. See also complete alphabetized list of journal articles.)
[Note: • Red dot indicates the publication is freely available.]
- • Thakur, Amod Kumar. 2022. How System of Rice Intensification conserve resources, benefits environment and resilient to climate change. Journal of Rice Research 15 (Special issue) 106-109. doi: [accessed February 28, 2023]
- • Doni, Febri, Anizan Isahak, F. Fathurrahman, and Wan Mohtar Wan Yusoff. 2023. Rice plants’ resistance to sheath blight infection is increased by the synergistic effects of Trichoderma inoculation with SRI management. Agronomy 13(3): 711. doi:10.3390/agronomy13030711 [accessed February 27, 2023]
- • Adounkpe, J., O. Ahoudji, and B. Sinsin. 2021. Assessment of the contribution of flooded rice cultivation systems to methane emissions in the Lower Ouémé Valley in Benin Republic. Journal of Agricultural Chemistry and Environment 10: 327-344. doi:10.4236/jacen.2021.103021 [accessed February 27, 2023]
- • 2023. Keynote and Lead Lectures (from the International Conference on System of Crop Intensification). Journal of Rice Research 15 (Special Edition). [Includes over 50 talks in 7 themes related to SRI and SCI in India and worldwide presented at the International Conference on System of Crop Intensification (ICSCI 2022) for Climate Smart Livelihood and Nutritional Security, 12-14 December 2022, at ICAR-Indian Institute of Rice Research, Hyderabad, Telangana, India [accessed February 15, 2023]
- • Sulistyowati, Lies, et al. 2021. Response of Farmer Field Schools (FFS) participants to method of Organic System of Rice Intensification (SRI) in Tasikmalaya Regency, Indonesia. International Journal of Advances in Engineering and Management 3:(1): 848-856. [accessed February 15, 2023]
- • Kathryn, Vasilaky, et al. 2015. Learning digitally: Evaluating the impact of farmer training via mediated videos. Research report on Digital Green website. 27p. [accessed February 10, 2023]
- • Patnaik, Girija Prasad. 2023. Selenium application improves drought tolerance during reproductive phase of rice. Sustainability 2023, 15(3): 2730 (1-13). doi:10.3390/su15032730 [accessed February 8, 2023]
- • Gurung, Suk B., Ram B. Khadka, and Narayan B. Dhami. 2023. Effects of finger-millet intensification on yield and disease-resistance in the central hills of Nepal. NepSalese Journal of Agricultural Sciences 24: 5-21. [accessed February 7, 2023]
- • Saxena, Raka, et al. 2023. Does India need a different rice ecosystem to harness the export advantages and manage the virtual water exports? Sustainability mapping for rice cultivation. Current Science 124(04): 407-413 [accessed February 2, 2023]
- • Palanisamy, Jeevanand, et al. 2022. Unravelling the growth potential of rice under modified rice cultivation System in Tamil Nadu, India. International Journal of Plant & Soil Science 34(18): 250-258. doi:10.9734/ijpss/2022/v34i1831077 [accessed February 2, 2023]
- Kamara, Lamin Ibrahim, Baqir Lalani, and Peter Dorward. 2023. Towards Agricultural Innovation Systems: Actors, roles, linkages and constraints in the System of Rice Intensification (SRI) in Sierra Leone. Scientific African 19:e01576. doi:10.1016/j.sciaf.2023.e01576 [accessed February 1, 2023]
Documents Uploaded and New Pages Created/Updated on our Website - February 2023
- Web pages updated during February 2023: 2023 additions (new page), January 2022 additions (new page), Benin, China, Ecuador, Indonesia, Iraq, Kenya, Malaysia, Philippines, Sierra Leone, journal articles, India journal articles, India news, India videos, events, research network, theses, videos
- Mati, Bancy. 2023. Promoting SRI through digital learning for rice farmers in Kenya. SRI-Rice website. (7p. pdf) [uploaded February 2023]
- Fisher, Lucy. 2022. January 2023 news additions to the SRI-Rice website.
Videos/Audio - February 2023
- 2023 (February 26). Initiative of SRI in Iraq. 4:44 min. SRI-Rice channel, YouTube. [A video on implementation of the System of Rice Intensification in Iraq by Khidhir Abbas Hameed and staff of the Al-Mishkhab Rice Research Station in Najaf, Iraq. Farmer testimonies are included.]
Presentations - February 2023
- Doni, Febri, and Rizky Riscahya Pratama Syamsuri. System of Rice Intensification: Research, Adoption, and Opportunities. 33 slides. Presentation at the International Conference on System of Crop Intensification for Climate-Smart Livelihood and Nutritional Security, Hyderabad, India, December 12-14, 2022. [uploaded February 15, 2023]
- Mati, Bancy. 2022. The System of Rice Intensification (SRI): Towards Improving Rice Production and Saving Water in Africa. 17 slides. Presentation at the International Conference on System of Crop Intensification for Climate-Smart Livelihood and Nutritional Security, Hyderabad, India, December 12-14, 2022. [uploaded February 15, 2023]
