March 2023 - Additions to the SRI-Rice Website (Links to online material)
(See previous months acquisitions - 2013-2023)
• SRI-RICE STATISTICS for March 2023:
SRI-Rice website: 2,347 new users (1,835 users last month) from 69* (75 last month) logged 3,199 sessions (2,564 last month) in which 4,700 pages (3,698 last month) were viewed. [Top ten countries in order of number of new users: India (1,028), USA (429), China (88), Philippines (74), UK (58), Nepal (52), Japan (45), Indonesia (41), Canada (33), Australia (34)
* # 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: 2,596 followers. 2) SRI Equipment Innovators Exchange: 397 members . 3) SRI West Africa: 1,817 members. 4) SICA America Latina: 1,153 follows 5) SRI en las Américas: 74 members
SRI-Rice Newsletter: 91 views (195 last month)
YouTube (primary): 577 (522 last month) new views this month for our 91 uploads. 81 views (39 last month) for our 41 playlists (not including our India YouTube channel). 1,733 subscribers (4 new); 287,489 all-time views of our videos (2009-2022); 95,342 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: 1,601 views this month; 545 slideshows/posters total uploaded, 263 followers
Research Databases: There are 2,241 items (1,552 journal articles), in our Zotero research database (13 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 March 2023: 2023 additions (new page), February 2022 additions (new page), Cambodia, Indonesia, Madagascar, Malaysia, Mali, Myanmar, Pakistan, Tanzania, journal articles, India journal articles, India news, India videos, events, research network, theses, videos
In the Press - March 2023
- Climate-smart agriculture innovations give Assam farmers hope and income
March 25, 2023, Northeast News Now (Assam, India) - Bupati Limi menghadiri panen perdana padi organik di Kelurahan Imandi [Govt. officials attend harvest festival for organic SRI rice project in North Sulawesi, Indonesia]
March 18, 2023, Redaksi Sulut (Sulawesi Utara, Indonesia) - PSRLB berdayakan warga Bajo dan sekitarnya (Pertamina CSR project promotes organic inputs with SRI in Kedungtuban, Blora, Central Java)
March 17, 2023, Radar Bononegoro (Jawa Tengah, Indonesia) - Mise en oeuvre du programme national Systeme Riziculture Intensif (PR-SRI) : Le Ministère du Développement Rural et les PTF en conclave pour assurer l'opérationnalisation du programme (Implementation of the National System of Rice Intensification Program (PR-SRI): The Ministry of Rural Development and the TFPs in conclave to ensure the operationalization of the program)
February 21, 2023, MaliActu.net (Mali) [accessed March 17, 2023] - *Discussion about System of Wheat Intensification
March 11, 2023, News Corporation (India) - Jubilee Justice opens pop-up farmers markets in Alexandria [Interview with Jublilee Justice, which grows SRI rice in Louisiana, on their farmers market stand]
March 10, 2023, CenLANow, (Louisiana, USA) - Rektor Dwijendra mengangkat filosofi Tri Hita Karana di Yamagata University, Jepang [Rector of Balinese University presents on Hindu philosophy and SRI at organic agriculture event in Japan]
March 2, 2023, SunarPos (Bali, Indonesia)
Blog Posts and Website Articles - accessed during March 2023
- 2023. (Press release by the Indian Ministry of Agriculture & Farmers Welfare on) Green agriculture. Press Information Bureau website. March 28. [Cites SRI as an option]
- Bose, Hiren Kumar. 2023. No firewood, no LPG: How we saved our village’s forests & became carbon-neutral. The Better India website. March 27.
- 2023. Le premier riz Basmati sobre en eau un éco engagé! Autour du Riz website. [French company imports Basmati. rice grown in Pakistani Punjab by 78 farmers.] [accessed March 20, 2023]
- 2023. More crop per drop. Lotus Foods website. March 22. [Update of Lotus Foods' More crop per drop page for World Water Week.]
- McCallum, Jen. 2023. Three ways the System of Rice Intensification supports biodiversity! SRI-2030 blog. March 20.
- Overgangen fra selvberging til kommersielt jordbruk. Norgesvel website. [Norwegian group working in Tanzania on a project that includes SRI] [accessed March 16, 2023]
- 2023? Halima’s children no-longer going to school hungry. AGWENDA Women Input Loan Initiative (AWILI) website. [One of AWILI's success stories in Malawi that involves SRI.] [accessed March 11, 2023]
- Naik, Netra. 2023. Indonesia’s agriculture sector contributed 2.4% of global agricultural emissions in 2021. Global Scorecard website. March 10. [SRI is mentioned, but the govt. strategy to deal with GHG seems to be missing a few points]
- 2023. The System of Rice Intensification method. BagorTech website, Our Solutions section. [BagorTech, an NGO in the Philippines, focuses on natural growth stimulants and SRI for sustainable rice production.] [accessed March 10, 2023]
- Vent, Olivia. 2023. Women’s essential but all too invisible role in rice production. Lotus Foods. March 7.
- 2023. System of Rice Intensification – method of organic rice cultivation. beforest website. March 3. [Experiences of Beforest’s Hyderabad Farming Collective in India]
Latest Research / Journal Articles / Theses - links acquired during March 2023
(in order of acquisition. See also complete alphabetized list of journal articles.)
[Note: • Red dot indicates the publication is freely available.]
- Dey, Shiladitya, Piyush Kumar Singh, et al. 2023. Climate-resilient agricultural ploys can improve livelihood and food security in Eastern India. Environment, Development and Sustainability. doi:10.1007/s10668-023-03176-2 [accessed March 30, 2023]
- • Phu Hao, Dong, Nguyen Thanh Binh, and Le Hoang Anh. 2023. Current situation and solutions for methane (CH4) emission in paddy rice cultivation in Vietnam. VNU Journal of Science: Earth and Environmental Sciences 39(1): 28-41. doi:10.25073/2588-1094/vnuees.4909 [accessed March 29, 2023]
- • Ly, Proyuth. 2012. Low external input tropical agriculture: livelihoods, greenhouse gasses and sustainability: a study on the role of the system of rice intensification (SRI) in rain-fed lowland rice ecosystem in Cambodia. PhD dissertation, University of Copenhagen. 143p. [accessed March 20, 2023]
- • Kimaro, Oforo Didas, et al. 2023. Handheld NDVI sensor-based rice productivity assessment under combinations of fertilizer soil amendment and irrigation water management in lower Moshi irrigation scheme, North Tanzania. Environmental Earth Science 82(3): 78. doi:10.1007/s12665-022-10730-0
- • Panomjan, Nantiya. 2023. Cost reduction of rice production with the System of Rice Intensification (SRI). Songklanakarin Journal of Plant Science 10(1): (Online First, February 2023) [accessed March 16, 2023]
- • Mubangizi, A., J. Wanyama, N. Kiggundu, and P. Nakawuka. 2023. Assessing suitability of irrigation scheduling Decision Support Systems for lowland rice farmers in Sub-Saharan Africa—A review. Agricultural Sciences 14(2): 219-239. doi:10.4236/as.2023.142015. [accessed March 16, 2023]
- • Rai, Khushubu, et al. 2023. Response of different seedling establishment methods on growth and yield of rice in Terai Region of Nepal. Reviews In Food And Agriculture 4(1): 07-12. [accessed March 11, 2023]
- • Abdulkadir, Tukur Daiyabu. 2019. Design and development of a seeding machine for system of rice intensification seedling tray. PhD dissertation. Universiti Putra Malaysia. 151p. [accessed March 11, 2023]
- • Budianto, Muh Bagus. 2023. Analisis pengaruh metode SRI dan konventional terhadap luas layanan irigasi pada Bendungan Meninting. GANEC SWARA 1(17): 100-107. [accessed March 11, 2023]
- • Nath, Dipak, and D.K. Das. 2018. Knowledge on SRI (System of Rice Intensification) of farmers in Tripura, India. International Journal of Current Microbiology and Applied Sciences 7(3): 3586-3592. doi:10.20546/ijcmas.2018.703.412 [accessed March 11, 2023]
- • Nakano, Yuko. 2023. The case of Tanzania: Effectiveness of management training on rice framing and farmer-to-farmer extension. In: Otsuka, K., Mano, Y., Takahashi, K. (eds) Rice Green Revolution in Sub-Saharan Africa. Natural Resource Management and Policy, vol 56. Springer, Singapore. 10.1007/978-981-19-8046-6_4 [accessed March 1, 2023]
- • Khadka, Ram Bahadur. 2022. Microbial inoculation can enhance SRI performance and reduce biotic and abiotic stresses in rice. Journal of Rice Research 15 (Special issue) 77-80. doi:10.58297/YKBR1159 [accessed March 1, 2023]
Links to Online Publications and Websites - March 2023
- 2021. Développement de l’agriculture durable par les agriculteurs de la province de Siem Reap au Cambodge. GRET website. [This French language brief documents activities that include SRI by the French NGO GRET, the Recherche et le Développement (CIRD), and the provincial govt of Siem Riep. The dates are not clear, but the projects probably as much as a decade old.] [accessed March 17, 2023]
- 2023. ClimateRice. A new website by a group at Cornell that is promoting SRI by creating a self-financing model with carbon credits. ClimateRice hopes to have SRI on 55M hectares over the next 10 years. [accessed March 16, 2023.]
Documents Uploaded and New Pages Created/Updated on our Website - March 2023
- Web pages updated during March 2023: 2023 additions (new page), February 2022 additions (new page), Cambodia, Indonesia, Madagascar, Malaysia, Mali, Myanmar, Pakistan, Tanzania, journal articles, India journal articles, India news, India videos, events, research network, theses, videos
- Fisher, Lucy. 2022. February 2023 news additions to the SRI-Rice website.
Videos/Audio - March 2023
- 2023 (March 31). System of Rice Intensification (SRI): Producing more with less. 2:58 min. Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations channel. [Farmers, extension agents, FAO representatives, and government weigh in on SRI in Tanzania in this short video.]
- 2023 (March 31). Kilimo Shadidi – Zalisha zaidi kwa kutumia kidogo. 2:58 min. Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations channel. [Swahili version of FAO's short video on SRI in several sites in Tanzania]
- 2023 (March 4). Conservation through Ba’ Kelalan Adan Rice - Heirloom rice of the Lun Bawang people. 5:33 min. WWFMy channel, YouTube. [WWF-Malaysia supported project using SRI to grow Adan heirloom rice in Ba'Kelalan in Sarawak.]
Presentations - March 2023
- Khaing, Daw Chaw Su. 2019. Four different kinds of cultivation methods on monsoon rice in Year 2017-2018. 17 slides. Ministry of Agriculture, Livestock and Irrigation, Myitkyina Township, Myitkyina District, Kachin State, Myanmar. [accessed March 1, 2023]
