A new generation rice card design for organic rice farming

Rice farming in Bali: organic production and marketing challenges.

All is not well with agriculture in Southeast Asia. The productivity gains of the Green Revolution have slowed and even reversed and environmental problems and shortages of water and land are evident. At the same time changing world markets are shifting the dynamics of national agricultural economies. But from the point of view of farmers themselves, it is their season-to-season economic surviv...

Contract Farming and Poverty Reduction: the Case of Organic Rice Contract Farming in Thailand

Occurrence and daily intake of ochratoxin A of organic and non-organic rice and rice products.

Ochratoxin A (OTA) was extracted from 84 rice samples and rice products by using accelerated solvent extraction (ASE) and analysed with liquid chromatography coupled with fluorescence detection. Samples were collected from rice cultivars, local markets and supermarkets; 64 were of non-organic and 20 of organic production. 7.8% of non-organic samples had OTA levels from 4.3 to 27.3 microg/kg and...

Spotlights: Application of rice husk and rice husk ash in organic reactions

Mohaddeseh Seddighi was born in Rasht, Guilan, I. R. Iran (1985). She received B.Sc. in applied chemistry from Isfahan University of Technology (IUT) (2007) and his M.Sc. in organic chemistry from Isfahan University of Technology (2010) under the direction of Professor Abdol. R. Hajipour. She began her Ph.D. studies at University of Guilan under supervision of Professor Farhad Shirini from 2011...

Spotlights: Application of rice husk and rice husk ash in organic reactions

Mohaddeseh Seddighi was born in Rasht, Guilan, I. R. Iran (1985). She received B.Sc. in applied chemistry from Isfahan University of Technology (IUT) (2007) and his M.Sc. in organic chemistry from Isfahan University of Technology (2010) under the direction of Professor Abdol. R. Hajipour. She began her Ph.D. studies at University of Guilan under supervision of Professor Farhad Shirini from 2011...