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From the Online Press...

• SRI method becoming a hit with Erode district farmers
  Dec. 24, 2008, Indopia (Tamil Nadu, India)
• IITs can play major role in changing India
  Dec. 22, 2008, The Economic Times (Tamil Nadu India)
• Workshop: Promotion of System Rice Intensification paddy cultivation for achieving food security
  Dec. 17, SRI Learning Alliance Workshop
• New system of farming in jail
  Dec. 17, Kerala Online
• Paddy farmers reap success with new cultivation system
  Dec. 16, the Hindu Business Line (Tamil Nadu, India)
• Rice intensification technology gaining popularity in India
  Dec. 15, Newspost Online World (also in newKerala.com)
• Central expert takes stock of new paddy plantation system
  Dec. 14, North East Watch (Assam, India)
• Six ryots implementing SRI method honoured
  Dec. 14, The Hindu (Orissa, India)
• Rice paddy harvest in Bongaigaon District
  Dec. 11, North East Watch (Assam, India)
• Special rice intensification fund needed
  Dec. 9, Sify.com (India)
• Centre urged to create 'SRI promotional Fund'
  Dec. 7, ChennaiOnline (Tamil Nadu, India)
• So shall your reap: New tech sows a seed for larger rice harvest
  Dec. 6, The Financial Express (Tamil Nadu, India)
• India: Experts suggest new methods to attain production target
  Dec. 5, Oryza
  [similar article: New approach to meet rice production target
  Dec. 4, The Hindu (Tamil Nadu, India)]
• 48 year old woman stole the SRI show
  Dec. 3, Coimbatore Live (Tamil Nadu, India) [also reported in Express Buzz and Indian Express]
• National symposium on SRI
  Dec. 2, Coimbatore Live (Tamil Nadu)
• Rethinking rice production practices
  Dec. 2, StarTribune.com (USA)
• SRI can help achieve goal of food security in India
  Dec. 1, ChennaiOnline (Tamil Nadu, India)
• Intensive farming brings rewards
  Nov 27, Jakarta Post (Indonesia)
• System of Rice Intensification picking up
  Nov. 20, The Hindu (Tamil Nadu, India)
• Science boosts rice yields
  Nov. 20, The Jakarta Post (Indonesia)
• Record average productivity kuruvai crop in state
  Nov. 19, The Hindu (Tamil Nadu, India)
• SRI yields encouraging result
  Nov. 14, The Hindu (Orissa, India)
• UGM to develop rice intensification
  Nov. 14, Tempointeractive (Indonesia)
• NGO on mission to increase food production
  Nov. 13, The Statesman (West Bengal, India)
• "Go Organic" campaign launched with P20M
  Nov. 6, Inquirer.net (Philippines)
• DA, BWSM, Alaminos city mayor ink MoU for organic fertilizer project with 2 NGOs
  Nov. 5, news.balita.ph (Philippines)
• Govt to teach farmers new methods to boost rice yield
  Oct. 28, Phnom Penh Post (Cambodia)
• Cambodia teaches farmers to boost yield
  Oct. 28, Financial Express (Bangladesh)
• ADB ready to provide $30 m loan for RI`s rice development
  Oct. 22, ANTARA News (Indonesia)
• Agro - revolutionaries push cause -
  Oct. 10, Phnom Penh Post (Cambodia)
• TN betters own record in paddy productivity
  Sept. 30, The Financial Express (Tamil Nadu, India)
• Many Ryots Adopt System of Rice Intensification
  Sept. 23, The Hindu (Tamil Nadu, India)
• Adopt latest technology
  Sept. 7, The Hindu (Tamil Nadu, India)
• Irabot Foundation sets up SRI
  Sept. 4, E-Pao (reprinted from the Sangai Express) (India)
• Un ministre malgache appelle à redoubler d'efforts pour stabiliser la production alimentaire
  Sept. 2, L'Agence de Presse Xinhua (China)
• Plan to cover samba paddy on 1.02 lakh hectares
  Aug. 29, The Hindu (India)
• Kuruvai paddy crop prospects good
  Aug. 27, The Hindu (India)
• Emphasis on "Precision Farming
  Aug. 11, The Hindu (India)
• 15 District Collectors to meet in Madurai
  Aug. 11, The Hindu (India)
• Achieving more with less: SRI - A new way of rice cultivation:
  Two new videos from the World Bank Institute
• System Intensification to Increase Rice Production
  July 29, Addis Fortune (Ethiopia)
• More for Less
  July 22, Deccan Herald (India)
• Le sommet du SRI à Madagascar
  July 5, L'Express de Madagascar
• New rice system produces higher yields
  July 1, Vientiane Times (Laos)
• India: A New Way of Cultivating Rice
  News and Broadcast (World Bank)
• India can produce more rice through 'SRI': Experts
  June 21, Media for Freedom
• A professor's food revolution starts with rice
  June 18, International Herald Tribune
• Food revolution that starts with rice
  June 17, New York Times (also reprinted in the Deccan Herald [The rice revolution] on July 1 and the Boston Globe [Food revolution that starts with rice] on June 17)
• Transplanter is a boon
  June 10, 2008, The Hindu (Tamil Nadu, India)
• State to introduce SRI farming
  June 7, 2008, The Hindu (Orissa, India)
• Boost to rice, pulses
  June 7, 2008, The Hindu (Karnataka, India)
• SRI method brings high yields
  May 23, 2008, The Hindu (Tamil Nadu, India)
• Badal asks Centre to include state in food security mission
  May 17, 2008, Financial Express (see also article in Punjab Newspaper)
• …More shall you reap
  May 3, 2008, Outlook Business (India)
• SRI implementation in all paddy fields in Tiruchi district
  April 26, The Hindu (Tamil Nadu, India)
• Solving the rice shortage the PASALI way
  April 24, 2008, ABS-CBN News Online (Philippines)
• Amid food crisis rice land converted into industrial zone
  April 11, 2008, ABS-CBN News Online (Philippines)
• SRI needs a second look
  April 3, 2008, Manila Times (Philippines)
• System of Rice Intensification - Optimising production with fewer inputs
  April 7, Trade Observatory
• Video shows how to increase rice yields
  March 21, 2008, Phnom Penh Post (Cambodia)
  

From the Blogosphere ...

• Rubber, GM debate and rice intensification
  Dec. 16, Mera Khet (India)
• SRI: Failure still counts as success
  Dec. 2, Ecology, technology and social change (Philippines)
• SRI: Expansion is essential
  Dec. 2, SRI in Vietnam
• System of Rice Intensification
  Nov. 22, Vannak's Blog (South Korea)
• Reports show less water used in organic farming
  Nov. 14, Algernon Carter's homepage
• Promoting SRI among rice farmers
  Nov. 8, Ecology, technology and social change (Philippines)
• DA Secretary Yap commits to convert 400,000 hectares of ricelands to organic production
  Nov. 7, Ecology, technology and social change (Philippines)
• Food revolution through SRI
  Nov. 2, AsiaDRRHA (Philippines)
• System of Rice Intensification (SRI)
  Nov. 1, Ecology, Technology and Social Change (Philippines)
• Oxfam - Food on the table and savings on hand
  Nov. 1, Food for Thought (USA)
• Record Tillering with Indigenous Rice Varieties
  Oct. 31, SRI Timkbuktu Blog (Mali)
• Govt to teach farmers new methods to boost rice yield
  October 29, Welcome to Cambodia (Cambodia)
• ADB ready to provide $3 million loan for RI`s rice development
  October 22, Cempaka Nature (Indonesia)
• SRI Timbuktu Blog updated Sept. 7 (Mali)
• SRI Update
  August 29, Surin Farmer Support (Thailand)
• SRI - August 13, Surin Farmers Support (Thailand)
• System of Rice Intensification (August 5) and
  I missed this.. (June 19) - Gaddeswarup's Blog (Australia)
• SRI Timbuktu Blog launched - July 31 (Mali)
• India can produce more rice through 'SRI': Experts
  June 21, News on India
• System of Rice Intensification - Reblogged
  June 20, Resource Management in Asia-Pacific News
• A professor's food revolution starts with rice
  June 20, Farmers' Blogs from Around the World (scrap-blog)
• What is SRI - System of Rice Intensification?
  June 17, Entertaining Research (India?)
• Training on Self-reliant Development
  May 16, Yim Sok Sophors (Cambodia)
• Happening Changes in India
  May 19, Chetan's Web Scribblings (India blog)
• Science Community Divided over New Way to Increase Rice Yield
• April 11, Leland's Living Room (Philippine)

SRI Updates

• SRI Update #19, October 7, 2008
• SRI Update #18, August 26, 2008
• SRI Update #17, July 23, 2008
• SRI Update #16, March 15, 2008
• SRI Update #15, January 15, 2008
• SRI Update Archives, 2005-2007
  

2008 Videos / Radio Broadcast

• GENERAL
1) (Audio) 2008 Reports of gains bring attention to rice-growing methods - July 7, VOA News (radio broadcast)
2) (Video) 2008. Improving Rice Productivity and Achieving Water Savings is intended for policy and decision makers, managers of development projects, and stakeholders involved in agriculture, water resource and irrigation management. (12 minutes)

• CAMBODIA
Lalo, Corinne. 2008 (November 6). Systéme de Riziculture Intensive- Cambodge: Le riz du l'espoir. French language video on Tefy Saina website.

Audio: (Khmer language broadcast on VOA.)
Soth, Kong. 2008 (September 17): Neighbors Survey 'Rice Intensification' Gains. Audio podcast on Voice of America.
Khmer audio aired 16 September 2008 (1.20 MB) - Download (MP3)
Khmer audio aired 16 September 2008 (1.20 MB) - Listen (MP3)

Audio: (Khmer language broadcast on VOA Khmer) Sothea, Ros. 2008 (March 18) Agency Pushes to Boost Rice Harvest Yield
Khmer audio aired March 18 (1.21MB) - Download (MP3)
Khmer audio aired March 18 (1.21MB) - Listen (MP3)

2008. Sukshethram's Videos on YouTube: 16 videoclips about SRI in India, including land preparation, transplanting, motorized and non-motorized weeders, etc.in India

2008 (Aug.11). System of Rice Intensification. Umagenes channel on YouTube. 4:42 min.

2008. (Aug 6). Power Weeder for Rice SRI Cultivation. anushamlakshmi collection on YouTube. 0:33 min.

2008 (July 14). SRI Implementation in Pitchavaram Village, Tamil Nadu.(on YouTube) Post-Tsunami Health, Education and Livelihood Project (HELP), Cuddalore, Tamil Nadu, India. 2:49 min.

• MADAGASCAR
Duriez, Nicholas. 2008 (December 16). SRI, Système de riziculture intensive. French language radio broadcast on Radio France Internationale. 19:30 minutes. (audio only)

Lalo, Corinne. 2008 (October 24). Le riz pourra-t-il sauver le monde de la faim?: French language video (on TF1 - Les Journaux télévisés en vidéo)

2008. Système de Riziculture Intensive (SRI): French language video (on YouTube) by the French journalist, Corinne Lalo (7:58 minutes)

• PHILIPPINES
2008. Achieving more with less: SRI - A new way of rice cultivation: Two videos prepared by the World Bank Institute
1) For policy and decision makers, managers of development projects, and stakeholders involved in agriculture, water resource and irrigation management. (12 minutes)
2) "How-to" Guide for Farmers and Practitioners Based on an application in the Philippines Audience: It is intended for farmers and practitioners who are interested to see how SRI is applied on the ground. (15 minutes)

2008. Alternative Rice Planting Method Key to Self-Sufficiency: Tagalog language video about SRI in the Philippines.Videographer/Producer: Alecks P. Pabico. Video editor: Francis Ventura. (10:25 minutes) 26.8 MB. (Note: scroll down through blog to get to video)

VIETNAM
2008 (Nov. 13) Vietnamese language video about SRI in Vietnam. (30.05 minutes). Available from the SRI Vietnam website, which provides information about a collaborative SRI initiative by Oxfam Quebec, the Plant Protection Department (PPD), and the Centre for Sustainable Rural Development (SRD) with funding from Oxfam America.