January 2023 - Additions to the SRI-Rice Website (Links to online material)
(See previous months acquisitions - 2013-2022)
• SRI-RICE STATISTICS for January 2023:
SRI-Rice website: 1,800 new users (1,933 users last month) from 78*countries (81 last month) logged 2,325 sessions (2,510 last month) in which 3590 pages (3,775 last month) were viewed. [Top ten countries in order of number of new users: India (583), USA (323), Philippines (71), Nepal (68), Japan (57), Indonesia (35), Nigeria (34), UK (33), Germany (33), Malaysia (32)]
* # 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: 393 members. 3) SRI West Africa: 1,819 members. 4) SICA America Latina: 1,153 follows 5) SRI en las Américas: 72 members
SRI-Rice Newsletter: 68 views (63 last month)
YouTube (primary): 759 (769 last month) new views this month for our 90 uploads. 68 views (67 last month) for our 41 playlists (not including our India YouTube channel). 1,727 subscribers (5 new); 286,373 all-time views of our videos (2009-2022); 95,222 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: 1,970 followers
Slideshare: 1,163 views this month; 543 slideshows/posters total uploaded, 263 followers
Research Databases: There are 2,214 items (1,535 journal articles), in our Zotero research database (11 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 January 2023: 2023 additions, December 2022 additions (new page), Burkina Faso, Ghana, Indonesia, Mali, Nigeria, events, finger millet, other SCI, journal articles, India journal articles, India news, India videos, theses, videos
In the Press - January 2023
- Alasan budidaya padi dengan metode SRI perlu dilakukan [IPB professor cites SRI's importance for Indonesia)
January 27, 2023, Trubus (Indonesia) - Chusnul Arif: Metode SRI,budidaya padi hemat air dan mengurangi emisi (similar to item above)
January 27, 2023, Wanaloka (Indonesia) - TN honours its best on R-day [At the Republic Day celebrations in Chennai, Farmer G Vasantha of Aalavayal in Pudukottai, won the C Narayanasamy Naidu Award for the highest rice production. The award, which carries `5 lakh, a medal and a citation. She been growing rice SRI methods for the past 20 years,]
January 27, 2023, New Indian Express (Tamil Nadu, India) - Kementan sosialisasikan budidaya padi organik mudah dan murah
[Ministry of Agriculture is promoting the Pro-Organic Farmer Movement (Organic Genta). SRI cited as example.]
January 9, 2023, Indopos.co.id (Indonesia) - Alumni IPB gelar HA IPB Awards 2022 [Alumni Awards at Insitut Pertanian Bogor include Ida Bagus Gede Arsana, farmer and
director of Bali SRI organik enterprise, for his work on organic SRI in Bali.]
December 27, 2022, Media Indonesia (Bogor, Indonesia) [accessed January 1, 2023]
Blog Posts and Website Articles - accessed during January 2023
- 2023. Official launch of the RICOWAS project January 18, 2023 in Bamako. Sahara and Sahel Observatory website. January 18. [The RICOWAS project is a five-year SRI-based initiative in 13 West African countries. The project details are here.]
- McCallum, Jen. 2023. Exploring the role of SRI and Nationally Determined Contributions for Climate Action. SRI-2030 blog. January 18.
- SRI-2030 blog. [accessed January 16, 2023]
- SRI-2030. SRI FAQs. SRI-2030 website. [accessed January 16, 2023]
- 2023. Technique de production agroécologique du riz au profit de la coopérative Gouantina de Douna. Plant Village blog. January 12. [PlantVillage project in Burkina Faso tests SRI with women's cooperative in farmer field school.]
- Jha, Raunak. 2022. How have subsidies of electricity skewed income distribution among farmers in Punjab? GRIN website. [Term paper suggesting MSP and electricity benefits wealthier farmers; article not about, SRI, but SRI suggested to help.]
Latest Research / Journal Articles / Theses - links acquired during January 2023
(in order of acquisition. See also complete alphabetized list of journal articles.)
[Note: • Red dot indicates the publication is freely available.]
- • Siregar, Nadia Itona, Dwi Sadon, and Cahyono Tri Wibowo. 2020. Analisis jaringan komunikasi kelompok tani dalam penerapan budi daya padi metode System of Rice Intensification (SRI). Jurnal Pikom 21(1): 1-14. doi:10.31346/jpikom.v21i1.2216 [accessed January 16, 2023]
- • Adomoku, Richard Oppong. 2020. Investigating profit efficiency of the System of Rice Intensification (SRI) in Northern Ghana. Master's thesis. University of Development Studies (Ghana). 117p. pdf. [accessed January 11, 2023]
- Kirar, Shiv Singh, A.K. Gupta, and Akhilesh Kulhade. 2017. Comparative study of input and output cost of traditional and SRI methods of paddy cultivation. Interaction 35(1): 60-63. [accessed January 11, 2023]
- • Bindu, H.A., and K.B. Umesh. 2022. Comparative economics of climate smart rice cultivation systems in Mandya district of Karnataka. Pharma Innovation 11(12): 5301-5305. [accessed January 10, 2023]
- Srinivas, K.R., van Est, R. 2023. Technology assessment in developing countries: The case of India—Examples of governmental and informal TA. In: Hennen, L., Hahn, J., Ladikas, M., Lindner, R., Peissl, W., van Est, R. (eds) Technology Assessment in a Globalized World. Springer, Cham. 10.1007/978-3-031-10617-0_6
- • Usman, Made, Kadekoh Indrianto, Mahfudz, and Sakka Samudin. 2016. The effect of System of Rice Intensification cultivation (SRI) implementation on growth and yield of wetland rice, and changes in soil nitrogen, phosphor and potassium. Journal of Scientific and Engineering Research 3(5): 234-239. [accessed January 10, 2023]
- • Abubakar, M., Y.S. Demuliyi, and A. Saleh. 2022. Ergonomic assessment of power tiller operators during the testing of System of Rice Intensification practices at Bakolori Irrigation Scheme, Zamfara State, Nigeria. Journal of Applied Sciences and Environmental Management 26(12): 2053-2058 [accessed January 5, 2023]
Documents Uploaded and New Pages Created/Updated on our Website - Janaury 2023
- Web pages updated during January 2023: 2023 additions (new page), December 2022 additions (new page), Burkina Faso, Ghana, Indonesia, Mali, Nigeria, events, finger millet, other SCI, journal articles, India journal articles, India news, India videos, theses, videos
- Singh, Gurpreet. 2015. Beyond apprehensions: An experience of System of Cumin (Cuminum cyminum) Intensification. SRI-Rice website, Other crops section. [This is an article previously posted on March 27, 2015, http://thealternatevoice.blogspot.in (no longer online).] [uploaded January 15, 2023]
- Fisher, Lucy. 2022. November 2022 news additions to the SRI-Rice website.
Videos/Audio - Janaury 2023
- 2023 (January 28). SRI Through SRI - PRAYATN. 10:37 min. NPradeep Khemnani channel, YouTube. [Overview of SRI methods and farmer interviews from a SRI project by Prayatn in Rayagada, Odisha, India. In local language with English text and narration.]
- 2023 (January 18). Lancement officiel du projet RICOWAS, 39:20 min. Observatoire du Sahara et du Sahel OSS channel. [Launch of RICOWAS project, a $14 million project in 13 countries in W. Africa that has SRI as a primary focus.]
- 2022 (December 5). SRI video from Projet de Résilience et de Compétitivité Agricole (PReCA). 2:26 min. RTB video clip uploaded on PReCa Facebook page. [The RTB video report (attached) to appreciate this support of the Project in Karfiguéla, in the Cascades region of Burkina Faso.] [accessed January 15, 2023]
- 2023 (January 11). Save 30 to 40% of the world water consumption: Dry Rice intercropping- iRice. Ralf Otterpohl channel, YouTube. [Lecture about SRI intercropping system from Hamburg University of Technology]
- 2023 (January 1). SRI Method For Rice Cultivation. 6:26 min. Mr Agri channel, YouTube.
Presentations - January 2023
- none this month
