THE RICE LANDS of Malaysia, tolaling 0.6 M ha are broadly classified as either granary or nongranary areas. The granaries comprise 8 large and contiguous irrigation schemes, covering 210,000 ha and producing more than 65 percent of the country's total output; and it is in these granaries that further developine.nt of rice production will bt. concentrated. The nongranaries are either rain-fed or...

rice is a main food for iranian people and has an important role in providing food security. regarding the population growth, increase of rice production and reduction of losses have special importance in prevention of rice import. rice losses in the harvest stage are the highest through the whole production period of this crop and hence the reduction of these losses is necessary. provision of ...

The study employed a Stochastic Frontier Production approach to determine the future investment strategies that can enhance the production of rice in Punjab, Pakistan. The data is collected from 200 farmers in the year of 2005 from two Tehsils of Sheikhupura district which is one of the major rice growing districts of Punjab province. The results of stochastic production function indicate that ...

The study employed a Stochastic Frontier Production approach to determine the future investment strategies that can enhance the production of rice in Punjab, Pakistan. The data is collected from 200 farmers in the year of 2005 from two Tehsils of Sheikhupura district which is one of the major rice growing districts of Punjab province. The results of stochastic production function indicate that ...

background: rice is one of the crops, which are prone to be contaminated with toxigenic fungi and their mycotoxins. this study aimed to investigate the natural occurrence of t-2 toxin in domestic and imported rice in iran. methods: in a cross-sectional descriptive study in winter 2007, 140 samples of imported rice (125 samples of thai and 25 sam­ples of pakistani rice) and 60 samples of iranian...

We investigated the feasibility of anaerobic codigestion of sewage sludge and rice straw. Laboratory-scale mesophilic and thermophilic digesters were operated with hydraulic retention times of 20 and 15 days, respectively. The feeding ratio of sewage sludge and rice straw was 1:0.5 based on the total solids (TS). Before digestion, the rice straw was ground to ca. 5 mm in length (grinding pretre...

This investigation was performed to evaluate the biological efficiency (BE), mean mushroom weight (MMW), mean number of mushroom (MNM) and mushroom quality of Shiitake [Lentinula edodes (Berk.) Pegler] when grown on a sterilized substrate composed by sugarcane bagasse enriched with rice bran and sugarcane molasses. The proportions of rice bran were 0, 15, 20, 25 and 30% (dry weight/dry weight o...

Land suitability analysis is a prerequisite to achieving optimum utilization of the available land resources. Lack of knowledge on best combination of factors that suit production of rice has contributed to the low production. The aim of this study was to develop a suitability map for rice crop based on physical and climatic factors of production using a Multi-Criteria Evaluation (MCE) & GIS ap...

This study uses a generalized stochastic frontier framework to model a multiple-output rice production system and analyses farm-level technical inefficiency of rice farming in Assam, India. Primary data for this study was collected in 2009-2010 from 310 farm-households in four non-contiguous districts of Dhubri, Morigaon, Dibrugarh, and Cachar that are located in different agro-climatic regions...

Rice flour, corn flour and deoiled rice bran blends were used to prepare ready-to-eat extrudates