[PDF] Sustainable Rice Straw Management eBook

Author : Martin Gummert
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 199 pages
File Size : 27,2 MB
Release : 2020-01-01
Category : Agriculture
ISBN : 3030323730

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This open access book on straw management aims to provide a wide array of options for rice straw management that are potentially more sustainable, environmental, and profitable compared to current practice. The book is authored by expert researchers, engineers and innovators working on a range of straw management options with case studies from Vietnam, the Philippines and Cambodia. The book is written for engineers and researchers in order to provide them information on current good practice and the gaps and constraints that require further research and innovation. The book is also aimed at extension workers and farmers to help them decide on the best alternative straw management options in their area by presenting both the technological options as well as the value chains and business models required to make them work. The book will also be useful for policy makers, required by public opinion to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and air pollution, looking for research-based evidence to guide the policies they develop and implement.

Author : Martin Gummert
Publisher : Springer
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 38,96 MB
Release : 2020-09-18
Category : Science
ISBN : 9783030323752

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This open access book on straw management aims to provide a wide array of options for rice straw management that are potentially more sustainable, environmental, and profitable compared to current practice. The book is authored by expert researchers, engineers and innovators working on a range of straw management options with case studies from Vietnam, the Philippines and Cambodia. The book is written for engineers and researchers in order to provide them information on current good practice and the gaps and constraints that require further research and innovation. The book is also aimed at extension workers and farmers to help them decide on the best alternative straw management options in their area by presenting both the technological options as well as the value chains and business models required to make them work. The book will also be useful for policy makers, required by public opinion to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and air pollution, looking for research-based evidence to guide the policies they develop and implement.

Author : Boru Douthwaite
Publisher :
Page : 198 pages
File Size : 12,66 MB
Release : 2020-10-09
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9781013274619

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This open access book on straw management aims to provide a wide array of options for rice straw management that are potentially more sustainable, environmental, and profitable compared to current practice. The book is authored by expert researchers, engineers and innovators working on a range of straw management options with case studies from Vietnam, the Philippines and Cambodia. The book is written for engineers and researchers in order to provide them information on current good practice and the gaps and constraints that require further research and innovation. The book is also aimed at extension workers and farmers to help them decide on the best alternative straw management options in their area by presenting both the technological options as well as the value chains and business models required to make them work. The book will also be useful for policy makers, required by public opinion to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and air pollution, looking for research-based evidence to guide the policies they develop and implement. This work was published by Saint Philip Street Press pursuant to a Creative Commons license permitting commercial use. All rights not granted by the work's license are retained by the author or authors.

Author : Neda Asasian Kolur
Publisher :
Page : 38 pages
File Size : 30,27 MB
Release : 2020
Category :
ISBN :

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Rice straw, one of the main agricultural wastes of north of Iran, was utilized for extraction of two valuable products: high surface area activated carbon (AC) and nano-silica powder. The positive effect of silica extraction from activated rice straw ash on the porosity of resultant AC was determined. It was found that the performance of K 2 CO 3 was better than KOH for producing highly porous AC (2356 m 2 /g) under less severe conditions (relatively low impregnation ratio=1.5). The sensitivity analysis for several operating conditions was carried out, and the optimal conditions to reach the highest surface area, pore volume and silica extraction yield were determined for each chemical agent using Taguchi analysis. Among the factors changed, the highest contributions belonged to the impregnation ratio and activation temperature; therefore, other factors were selected based on economic considerations. The average production yield of activated carbon and silica from raw rice straw in this work was calculated around 9% and 7%, respectively. The average particle size of silica powder was estimated by SEM (around 35 nm) and DLS tests (200-300 nm), and an acceptable BET surface area and pore volume of 250 m 2 /g and 1 cm 3 /g, respectively, were obtained for this product.

Author : Parmod Kumar
Publisher : Springer
Page : 156 pages
File Size : 17,7 MB
Release : 2014-11-20
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 8132220145

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This book discusses the important issue of the socioeconomic and environmental impacts of agricultural residue burning, common in agricultural practices in many parts of the world. In particular, it focuses on the pollution caused by rice residue burning using primary survey data from Punjab, India. It discusses emerging solutions to agricultural waste burning that are cost-effective in terms of both money and time. The burning of agricultural residue causes severe pollution in land, water and air and contributes to increased ozone levels and climate change in the long term. However, appropriate assessments have not been undertaken so far to demonstrate the relevant impact of agriculture-based pollution, especially residue burning. This book addresses this gap in the literature. Punjab has been used as a case study as it is the chief granary of India, contributing to 27.2 percent of the Indian national produce of rice and 43.8 percent of wheat. It is presumed that the findings from this state will be useful not only for other agricultural areas in India, but across the world. This book, therefore, sensitizes policy makers, researchers and students about the impacts of air pollution caused by agricultural residue burning---a subject not much dealt in the literature---and provides a way forward.

Author : Achim Dobermann
Publisher : Int. Rice Res. Inst.
Page : 203 pages
File Size : 20,61 MB
Release : 2000
Category : Nutrition
ISBN : 9810427425

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Rice ecosystems; Nutrient management; Mineral deficiencies; Mineral toxicities; Tools and information.

Author : D. J. Greenland
Publisher : Cabi
Page : 273 pages
File Size : 25,14 MB
Release : 1997
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780851991634

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The importance of the sustainability of rice farming; The origins and history of rice farming; Rice farming today; The biophysical basis of the sustainability of rice farming; Maintaining the nutrient requirements of rice; Maintaining water supplies for rice; Social and economic factors and the sustainability of rice farming; Concerns about the sustainability of rice faming; Increasing and sustaining rice production.

Author : Andy Clark
Publisher : DIANE Publishing
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 49,81 MB
Release : 2008-07
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 1437903797

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Cover crops slow erosion, improve soil, smother weeds, enhance nutrient and moisture availability, help control many pests and bring a host of other benefits to your farm. At the same time, they can reduce costs, increase profits and even create new sources of income. You¿ll reap dividends on your cover crop investments for years, since their benefits accumulate over the long term. This book will help you find which ones are right for you. Captures farmer and other research results from the past ten years. The authors verified the info. from the 2nd ed., added new results and updated farmer profiles and research data, and added 2 chap. Includes maps and charts, detailed narratives about individual cover crop species, and chap. about aspects of cover cropping.