Sustainable Rice Straw Management

Preface.- 1 Introduction.- 2 Mechanized Collection and Densification of Rice Straw.- 3 Rice Straw-Based Composting.- 4 Thermochemical Conversion of Rice Straw.- 5 Co-digestion of Rice Straw for Biogas Production .- 6 Mushroom production.- 7 Rice straw-based fodder for ruminants.- 8 Rice straw incorporation influences nutrient cycling and soil organic matter.- 9 Rice straw management effects on greenhouse gas emissions.- 10 Life cycle assessment and best management practices.- 11 Overview of rice straw value chain and business model.- Conclusions.

Martin Gummert (Dipl.-Ing. agr.) is Senior Scientist at the International Rice Research Institute and leading the Mechanization and Postharvest Cluster of the Sustainable Impact Platform. He has 28 years of experience on mechanisation, postharvest, value chain upgrading, capacity building, small and medium industry promotion, business model development and facilitation of multi stakeholder platforms working in Asia, Africa and Europe. He has previously worked for GTZ, University of Hohenheim, Germany, PEM consulting and for two years as freelance consultant. He has been instrumental in developing and dissemination improved postharvest technologies throughout Southeast Asia. He has published and co-published 30 articles in peer reviewed journals and 16 book chapters.

Dr. Nguyen Van Hung is a scientist of the International Rice Research Institute (IRRI, since 2013) and associate professor of Nong Lam University (since 2012). Hung has 23 years of experience on agricultural mechanization and postharvest. He is in leading the rice straw projects and researches at IRRI. He has published and co-published about 20 articles in peer reviewed journals, and 5 book chapters.

Dr. Pauline Chivenge is a Senior Scientist in Soils and Nutrient Management at the International Rice Research Institute (IRRI) in the Philippines. Her research focuses on sustainable management of soil and nutrients in current and emerging irrigated and rainfed rice-based cropping systems. She has worked in diverse farming systems on topics that include biogeochemical nutrient cycling, natural resource management, watershed management, carbon sequestration, greenhouse gas emissions and sustainable ecosystem functioning. She has led a couple of international projects and has published more than 30 peer reviewed journal papers and has supervised about 15 MSc and PhD students.

Boru Douthwaite (PhD) is an evaluator, technology policy analyst and agricultural engineer with 25 years'

"The book will be helpful to the engineers and researchers working in the discipline of rice-straw management. In addition, the book may draw a wider readership from the graduate and undergraduate students, faculty members, field managers having interest in environmental sciences, agronomy and soil sciences. ... the book can be a great contribution to the applied science research and the value-chain based business models can be proved to be an eye opener for the sustainable rice-straw management for different countries." (Vipin Kumar Singh, Pardeep Singh and Rishikesh Singh, Journal of Cleaner Production, Vol. 272, 2020)