The increasing demand for rice in Ghana has been a major concern to the government and other stakeholders. Recent concerns by the coalition for African Rice Development (CARD) to double rice production within ten years in Sub-Saharan countries have triggered the to implement strategies to boost rice production in the government. To fulfill this requirement, there is a need to monitor and foreca...

Classification of different types of rice is carried out in this study using metaheuristic classification approaches.13 different rice samples are considered. Images of milled rice are acquired using a computer vision system. Feature Extraction methods are used to extract fifty seven features including five shape and size features, forty eight color features and four texture features from color...

For this study seventy-eight rice samples from 2008 of mediumand long-grain rice cultivars were harvested and selected from Rohwer, Keiser, and Corning locations in Arkansas. Bulk milled rice samples of ~11.5 grams and 100 individual milled rice kernels fitted with single kernel adapter were scanned using a diode-array-analyzer of each cultivar/location. Partial least squares regression (PLS) w...

The use of sprinkler irrigation for rice (Oryza sativa L.) crop is a relatively recent practice in Brazil. Therefore, crop soil and fertilization management are still not very well defined. Another problem is the inexistence of specific cultivars adapted to this cropping system. This study aimed to evaluate sprinklerirrigated upland rice cultivars under different soil management practices and n...

Milled rice samples at various moisture contents (MCs) were exposed to air inside a chamber that was equipped with a video camera and monitoring system that enabled observation of fissure formation over a 24‐h exposure duration. The effects of milled rice kernel MC (11%, 12%, 13%, or 14%), cultivar (Bengal, Wells, and CL161), air relative humidity (RH; 10%, 20%, 30%, 45%, 60%, 75%, or 90%), and...

Cereal Chem. 75(5):738-741 Milling data of four long-grain rice cultivars were analyzed to determine the uniformity in the slope of their curves for head rice yield (HRY) versus the corresponding degree of milling (DOM). The data set for each cultivar comprised samples that had been subjected to various drying air conditions and durations and milled over a range of moisture contents. All treatm...

Background. Carbohydrates have varied rates of digestion and absorption that induces different hormonal and metabolic responses in the body. Given the abundance of carbohydrate sources in the Philippines, the determination of the glycaemic index (GI) of local foods may prove beneficial in promoting health and decreasing the risk of diabetes in the country. Methods. The GI of Quality Protein Mai...

This study aimed to explore the ecological adaptability and the possibility of growing rice with floating bed on the dilute biogas slurry. The results of the experiments show that the growth stage, rice plant height, and rice yield and quality were significantly affected by multiple dilutions; rice plants cultivated with 45 multiple dilutions had better ecological adaptability than others. In t...

Rice is the staple food for nearly two-thirds of the world's population. Food components and environmental load of rice depends on the rice form that is resulted by different processing conditions. Brown rice (BR), germinated brown rice (GBR) and partially-milled rice (PMR) contains more health beneficial food components compared to the well milled rice (WMR). Although the arsenic concentration...

Future increases in global surface temperature threaten those worldwide who depend on rice production for their livelihoods and food security. Past analyses of high-temperature stress on rice production have focused on paddy yield and have failed to account for the detrimental impact of high temperatures on milling quality outcomes, which ultimately determine edible (marketable) rice yield and ...