Studying the Effect of Renovation of Traditional Rice Field to Industrial Rice Field for Decrease Rice Waste in Talesh County

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Abstract

One of the most important problems after production agricultural products is extent of waste materials in production process. Therefore, the aim of this paper is studying the role of renovation traditional rice field and create industrial rice field for decrease rice waste in Talesh County. Data were collected via implementing 80 questionnaires from workshop managers of rice field in 2011. Descriptive statistics, correlation coefficient, regression, Granger causality and X2 tests were used to analysis the data. Tests of performed hypothesis shows that there is significant difference between skin leaf rice field, general status of warehousing, dampness, combine, observe safety standard principles in traditional rice field and observing suitable equipments standards, staff training and supervision on industrial rice field in decrease rice waste extent. Estimating the regression equation showed that to increase one ton in delivery rough rice of industrial workshops, on average, waste rice increase to 0.06 ton (60 kg) and in traditional workshops extent reach to 0.15 ton or (150 kg). Therefore, waste rice in traditional workshops extent is twice more than industrial workshops.
JEL Classification: C83, L15, O13, R00

Keywords:
Rice, Waste, Traditional Rice Field, Industrial Rice Field, Talesh