2022 NEWS AND LATEST RESOURCES
- Latest Research
- New Publication Links
- New Uploads (Our site)
News from other years:
[Also see WHAT'S NEW THIS MONTH!]
In the Press - 2022
January 2022
- Mengintip uji coba tanam padi gunakan sistem tanam satu biji di Sumenep
January 20, 2022, BangsaOnline (East Java, Indonesia) - Prospering together with rice [National Smallholder Farmers’ Association of Malawi (Nasfam) promoted SRI under a climate-smart agriculture project with support from Irish Aid.]
January 18, 2022, The Nation (Malawi) - Berikan penyuluhan ke PPL, Faperta UIR teken MOA dengan Dinas Ketahanan Pangan dan Pertanian Dumai [Universitas Islam Riau faculty train govt. extension workers in Dumai, Riau, Indonesia, in SRI and other topics.]
January 14, 2022, Katariau.com (Riau, Indonesia) - PT Vale konsisten dorong pertanian SRI Organik di area pemberdayaan (PT Vale consistently encourages Organic SRI agriculture in empowerment areas) [Harapan Mulya Farmer's Group (KT) inLibutan Mandiri Village, South Sulawesi,
January 6, 2022, Radar Sulteng (South Sulawesi, Indonesia) - Tripura: Farmers’ victory rally raises 10 demands [SRI among the 10 demand raised by farmers]
January 3, 2022, The Citizen (Tripura, India)
Blog Posts and Website Articles - 2022
- *2022. WTO verdict on sugar subsidies and india's sugarcane industry. IASGYAN website. [SSI recommended]. [accessed January 27, 2022]
- *2022. Sustainable Sugarcane Initiative (SSI). Byju's website, current affairs section. [accessed January 27, 2022]
- *2020. Sustainable Sugarcane Initiative (SSI) in sugarcane cultivation. Easgri.info website. November 10. [accessed January 27, 2022]
- Padhee, Arabinda K., and Anthony Whitbread. 2022. Indian agriculture: The route post-CoP 26. Down to Earth blog. January 18. [Strategies to make Indian agriculture resilient and sustainable in a changing climate. Brief mention of SRI. This story has been corrected to reflect that India did not sign the Sustainable Agriculture Policy Action Agenda].
- Brown. 2022. What you need to know about the environmental impacts of rice production. ePrimeFeed. January 14.
- Shrestha, Aavash. 2022. System of Rice Intensification (SRI). Agriculture Student Liaison Forum (ASLF) blog. January 7. [Student blogger covers SRI progress in Morang, Nepal.]
- PIB. 2021. Minimization of carbon footprint. Press Information Bureau - India website. December 14.
- 2021. Rice in Rajasthan: A detailed overview. SupeRice website. December 10. [Discusses SRI among other topics]
- Salvi, Irene (editing/translation). 2021. Farmer field schools at the service of sustainable rice. Rikolto website. December 8. [Rikolto's SRI work in the DR Congo]
- Ramanujan, Krishna. 2021. $14M grant to adapt West African rice production to climate. Cornell Chronicle. December 7. [News about 13-country RICOWAS project that promotes SRI in West Africa]
- System of Rice Intensification (SRI). Vikaspedia website. [Instructional SRI information from India] [accessed December 8, 2021]
- Selda Jr., Eleazar N. 2021. Benepisyaryo ng grarian reform sa mogpog nagsanay ng sri. Marinduque News. December 7. [50 Agrarian Reform beneficiaries from Bintakay Farmers Association, had a 2-day SRI training under the Climate Resiliency Farm Productivity Support Program of the Department of Agrarian Reform in Marinduque.]
- Patle, GT. 2021. Climate smart water saving techniques for mitigation of climate change impacts in hill agriculture. The Sangai Express. December 7 .(SRI included; from Manipur, India)
- Mondal, Monika. 2021. Why India is neglecting its methane problem. Eco-Business website. December 3. [While India did not ledge to reduce methane at COP26, SRI is suggested as an idea to reduce emissions in India.]
- 2021. Rice in Tamil Nadu: A detailed analysis. Superrice website. December 2. [While published in 2021, this article, which has a lot of info on SRI in Tamil Nadu, seems to have been written in 2008.]
Latest Research / Journal Articles / Theses - acquired during 2022 (and Dec 2021)
(listed in order of acquisition. See also complete alphabetized list of journal articles)
- Red dot ( •) indicates article is freely available; * asterisk is SCI (SRI applied to crops other than rice)
- • Diédhiou, Pierre Claver César. 2019. Etude comparative des rendements et de la rentabilité du Système de Riziculture Intensif (SRI) et du Système Traditionnel dans le département de Ziguinchor. Université Assane Seck de Ziguinchor (UASZ)(Senegal). [accessed January 23, 2022]
- • Dione, Moudo. 2019. L’impact du système de riziculture intensive (SRI) sur le rendement des riziculteurs de Matam. Université Assane Seck de Ziguinchor (UASZ) (Senegal). [accessed January 23, 2022]
- *Manikandan, M., and G. Thiyagarajan. 2021. Study on irrigation and fertigation scheduling for Sustainable Sugarcane Initiative (SSI) through subsurface drip irrigation. Cutting-Edge Research in Agricultural Sciences 13: 55–61. doi:10.9734/bpi/cras/v13/11364D [accessed January 22, 2022]
- • Ferichani, M. 2013. The potential of Ettawa goat manure and urine management to support the productive and sustainable farming. Journal of Crop and Weed 9(2): 76-80 [accessed January 20, 2022]
- • Nuryanti, Dewi Marwati, and Kisan Kisan. 2021. Tingkat adopsi petani terhadap inovasi budidaya padi dengan System of Rice Intensification (SRI). Journal TABARO Agriculture Science 5(2): 627-638. [accessed January 20, 2022]
- • Samidjo, G. S., A. Astuti, and M. Mulyono. 2022. Peningkatan kapasitas petani Muhammadiyah dalam seleksi benih pada budidaya padi System of Rice Intensification. PengabdianMu: Jurnal Ilmiah Pengabdian Kepada Masyarakat7(1). doi:10.33084/pengabdianmu.v7i1.3016 [accessed January 19, 2021]
- • Santika, Sanan. 2022. The Influence of various weeding times and spacing on rice yields (Oryza sativa L.) Ciherang cultivars with the SRI cultivation system (System of Rice Intensification). Program Studi Agroteknologi, Fakultas Pertanian Universitas Garut, Indonesia. (Student paper). 10p.
- • Arif, Chusnul, et al. 2022. A model of evapotranspirative irrigation to manage the various water levels in the System of Rice Intensification (SRI) and its effect on crop and water productivities. Water 14(2): 170. doi:10.3390/w14020170
- • Doni, Febri,et al. 2022. Microbial contributions for rice production: From conventional crop management to the use of ‘Omics’ technologies. International Journal of Molecular Sciences 23(2): 737. 10.3390/ijms23020737 [accessed January 11, 2021]
- Effendi, Arman. 2022. The effect of oil palm empty fruit bunches on rice production (Oryza sativa L.) with a flood height of 10 cm below soil surface. JUATIK - Jurnal Agronomi Tanaman Tropika 4(1): 177-190. [accessed January 11, 2021]
- Vicente, Eriglio Ferreira. 2013. Community development methods toward food security: The System of Rice Intensification in Zumalai Sub-District Covalima, Timor Leste. MSc thesis, University of the Philippines, Los Banos. 198 p. [accessed January 10, 2022]
- Chiu, Hsin-Piao, et al. 2022. The assessment of rill irrigation and perforated pipes for lowland paddy rice under the system of rice intensification (SRI). Paddy and Water Environment. doi:10.1007/s10333-021-00879-y [accessed January 7, 2022]
- Mwidege, Asheri, and Zacharia Katambara. 2021. Does the system of rice intensification a panacea to smallholder farmers? A case of Mkindo village irrigation scheme in Tanzania. International Journal of Agriculture Innovation, Technology and Globalisation 2(2): 138-156. doi:10.1504/IJAITG.2021.119707 [accessed January 7, 2022]
- • Duary, Swarnali, Tufleuddin Biswas and Amit Biswas. 2021. System of Rice Intensification - A new approach of rice cultivation. Indian Journal of Natural Sciences 12(69): 37424-37429. [accessed January 1, 2022]
- Suryadi,Yadi, Dwe Ningsih Susilowati, and I. Made Samudra. 2021. Use of Bacillus firmus E65-talc based formulation for the management of bacterial leaf blight disease. Gontor AGROTECH Science Journal, 7(2): 183-214. [accessed December 20, 2021]
- *• Sikdar, Samrat, Satya Prakash and Shweta Kumari. 2020. Analysing the demographic and socio-personal characteristics of ‘System of Wheat Intensification’ (SWI) adopter as well as non-adopter farmers: A study in Samastipur District of Bihar State, India. International Journal of Current Microbiology and Applied Sciences 9(4): 476-485. doi:10.20546/ijcmas.2020.904.056 [accessed December 20, 2021]
- • Nasamu, Michael A., and Ali Garba. 2020. Productivity of irrigated and rainfed rice (Oryza sativa L.) as influenced by seedling age and row spacing in Kuru Plateau State, Nigeria. International Journal of Agriculture, Environment and Bioresearch 5(1): 71-84. doi: 10.35410/IJAEB.2020.5461 [accessed December 17, 2021]
- • Doni, Febri, et al. 2021. Associations of Pantoea with rice plants: Friends or foes? Agriculture 11(12): 1278 doi: 10.3390/agriculture11121278 [accessed December 17, 2021]
- • Korotoumou, Mariko, et al. Stochastic Meta Frontier analysis of smallholder rice farmers’ technical efficiency. Journal of Agricultural Science 11(8): 31-44. doi:10.5539/jas.v11n8p31 [accessed December 12, 2021]
- Jagannath, Madane Ananda, J.K. Singh, and Vijay Pratap. 2021. Effect of irrigation and nitrogen management on yield and economics of SRI-grown hybrid rice (Oryza sativa). The Indian Journal of Agricultural Sciences. 91(11) [accessed December 6, 2021]
- Fafchamps, Marcel, et al. 2021. Mobilizing P2P diffusion for new agricultural practices: Experimental evidence from Bangladesh. The World Bank Economic Review. 35(4): 1076-1101, doi:10.1093/wber/lhab009 [accessed December 4, 2021]
New Links from our Website to Online Publications (and SRI-Related Social Media sites) 2022 (and Dec 2021)
(see also Latest Research directly above and Recent Uploads below for new material on our site).
- Biswas, Saikat, and Rupa. 2021. System of Wheat Intensification (SWI). Agriculture and Food: E-Newsletter 3(5): 175-178 (Article ID: 10858). May.
- PASSIP. 2022. Curriculum d’apprentissage en production et post-production du riz : Module 15 Système de Riziculture Intensive (SRI). PASSIP website. [French language module on SRI methods by the Programme d’Appui au Sous-secteur de l’Irrigation de Proximité (PASSIP) in Mali]
- Haougui, Adamou, et al. 2019. Mise à l’échelle de Système de Riziculture Intensive (SRI) hors aménagement. DUDDAL website.
- Neupane, S., et al. 2021. Climate investment plan for the agriculture sector: A decision support tool for scaling up Climate-Smart Agriculture technologies and practices in Gandaki Province, Nepal. Local Initiatives for Biodiversity, Research and Development (LI-BIRD) and Ministry of Land Management, Agriculture, Cooperative and Poverty Alleviation (MoLMACPA), Gandaki Province, Pokhara, Nepal [accessed December 7, 2021]
- Hong, TV, et al. 2021. Rice cultivation ambition in the new and updated Nationally Determined Contributions: 2020-2021: Analysis of agricultural sub-sectors in countries’ climate change strategies. CCAFS Info Note. Wageningen, The Netherlands: CGIAR Research Program on Climate Change, Agriculture and Food Security (CCAFS). [Shows the number of countries including SRI and other rice production strategies in their NDCs. For exact countries, see the separate Excel sheet by S. Rose et al.]
Documents Uploaded on our Website 2022 (and Dec 2021) (Includes new pages added to the SRI-Rice website)
- [SRI-Rice web pages updated during January: 2021 additions, 2022 additions, December 2021 additions (new page), events, extension material, Bangladesh, DPR Korea, Indonesia, Myanmar, Nepal, Niger, Philippines, Taiwan, Tanzania, Timor Leste, journal articles, India journal articles, India news, India videos, research network, videos]
- Hameed, Khidhir Abbas, and Abdulkadhim Jawad Musa. 2021. Report on our activities on the SRI system during the past four rice seasons in Iraq (2018-2021). SRI-Rice website. November. (4p., 2.14MB) [uploaded December 15, 2021]
- Fisher, Lucy. 2021. Monthly additions to the SRI-Rice website. [uploaded monthly].
Videos / Audiofiles - 2022 (and Dec 2021) (either uploaded by SRI-Rice OR linked to from our website)
- 2022 (Jaunary 25). Rendicion de Cuentas del IICA Chile 2021. 7:13 min. IICA Chile channel YouTube.
- 2021. Crop Intensification System - Mark Fulford. Digging in the Dirt program, 30.00 min. podcast hosted by Kevin Gallagher on Sounder.fm. [Interview with Mark Fulford that hightlights SRI/SCI] [accessed January 23, 2022].
- 2022 (January 18). Rice Production on SRI System.14:36 min. kutub uddin green agriculture channel, YouTube. [Bengali language training on SRI in Koyra Upazila Khulna, Bangladesh.]
- 2022 (January 6). Rice cultivation using the System of Rice Intensification method in Kayin State, Myanmar. 9:10 min. LWF Learning Management channel, YouTube. [In 2019, the Lutheran World Federation Myanmar and its partners in the Alliance of Churches Together (ACT Alliance) introduced a more climate-resilient method of rice cultivation called the “System of Rice Intensification SRI to farmers in Kayin State, Myanmar. Here farmers are talking about the program.]
- 2022 (January 9). System of Rice Intensification. 12:35 min. Harish Kumar R K M channel, YouTube. [Tamil language instructional video on SRI]
- 2021 (December 18). धान सघनीकृत प्रणाली प्रविधि (System of Rice Intensification, SRI) for loksewa aayog @लोकणेवा Hub. 9:10 min. लोकणेवा Hub channel, YouTube. [Hindi language SRI instruction; text only]
- 2021 (December 14). SRI (System of Rice Intensification) at ECHO Asia Farm. 4:34 min. ECHO Asia channel, YouTube. [Thai version also available] [This video from ECHO Asia, which is located in northern Thailand explains SRI and emphasizes its importance for producing pure seed.]
Slide Presentations (Primarily PowerPoint) - 2021 acquisitions
- None this month
* indicates SCI, which is adaptation of SRI principles to other crops.
