Developing More Green Agribusiness: The Case for Exploiting Malaysia’s Under-Utilised Rice Straw

Rosmiza, M Z; Davies, W. P.; Rosniza, Aznie Cr; Jabil, MJ; Mazdi, M; Toren, WY Wan; Rosmawati, CM Che

doi:10.5901/mjss.2015.v6n3s2p532

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“…In the case of Mg content, SD had the highest value (8.00±0.35 g Kg -1 ) than that of the others which was significant (p<0.01) also (Table 8). For RS, scientists reported considerably lower C (38.01%), N (0.58%), P (1 g Kg -1 ), S (0.8 g Kg -1 ), Ca (1.7 g Kg -1 ) and Mg (1.1 g Kg -1 ) but higher values of Na (1.3g Kg -1 ), K (2 g Kg -1 ) and much higher Zn (30 g Kg -1 ) than that of the present study (25,31,35,36). In previous studies, investigators illustrated much lower C (41.38%) but higher N (0.66%), P (1.2 g Kg -1 ), S (2.8 g Kg -1 ), K (3.36 g Kg -1 ), Na (1.44 g Kg -1 ) and lower Ca (4.67 g Kg -1 ), Mg (1.75 g Kg -1 ) and surprisingly very much higher Zn (2590 mg Kg -1 ) for sawdust in their study (37)(38)(39).…”

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Quantifying the Acceptance and Adoption Dynamics of Biochar and Co-biochar as a Sustainable Soil Amendment

Khatun,

Hossain,

Joardar

2024

Plant Sci. Today

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Biochar, a carbonized biomass, can be used as a soil amendment for improving soil fertility and productivity as well as ensuring agricultural sustainability. Biochar can be produced from different materials and at different conditions, so its quality varies greatly as a soil amendment. In this respect, the present study aimed to explore the effectiveness of 4 biochars as a soil ameliorator for securing soil health. The biochars were produced from 3 different biomasses viz., rice straw, sawdust and water hyacinth and their mixture (co-biochar at 1:1:1) at 400 ºC. The biomasses and the biochars were characterized and the results revealed that conversion of biomasses into biochars caused a significant (p<0.05) increase in almost all of the biochar properties. Among the 4 biochars, water hyacinth biochar showed higher ash content, water holding capacity, surface area and total P, K, S, Ca and Zn. So, water hyacinth biochar could be a better choice as a soil amendment than the other three biochars. However, rice straw biochar showed higher cation exchange capacity (CEC), total N and Na and conversion efficiency of C, N, P, K, Na and Zn. Whereas, the co-biochar illustrated higher yield and showed the second highest in fixed C, CEC, total S, Ca and Zn and also in conversion efficiency of C, P, S, Na, K and Ca. Finally, it can be assumed to produce a co-biochar using rice straw at a higher ratio which might have a high potential for C storage and for supplying all of the essential plant nutrients.

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Quantifying the Acceptance and Adoption Dynamics of Biochar and Co-biochar as a Sustainable Soil Amendment

Khatun,

Hossain,

Joardar

2024

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“…Compared to PKC diet, CS had less ADF with almost similar NDF value (Kum and Wan Zahari 2011 ). RS had higher than normal CP with lower lignin content, but this variation was expected as various agronomic practices and weather condition play major roles in influencing rice straw nutritive value (Rosmiza et al 2015 ). With 50% inclusion of corn silage in MIX, the CP and OM amounts increased significantly while the ADF, cellulose and ash contents decreased thus improving the lower quality rice straw portion.…”

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Potential of feeding beef cattle with whole corn crop silage and rice straw in Malaysia

Nazli

Halim

Abdullah

et al. 2018

Trop Anim Health Prod

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The potential of using whole corn crop silage and rice straw as an alternative feed for the beef cattle based on the intake and growth performance were evaluated. Using randomised completely block design, nine adult Mafriwal cattle were blocked intro three groups and treated with three different forage diets supplemented with 20% pelleted palm kernel cake on dry matter basis. The treatments were 100% rice straw (RS), 100% corn silage (CS) and an equal mixture of rice straw and corn silage (MIX) fed ad libitum. The animals were housed in individual pens, and the feeding trial was conducted for 12 weeks with 2 weeks of adaptation period. The results showed that CS had the best feed nutritive composition with the lowest concentration of highly indigestible fibre and the highest concentration of organic matter and energy. The CS also had the highest intake, and the corn silage inclusion in MIX managed to improve the intake on par with CS in terms of the dry matter intake of body weight (DMI of BW), voluntary intake (VI) and crude protein (CP) intake. Cattle fed with CS gave the highest and most stable BW gain with an average daily gain (ADG) of 808 g/day rivalling cross-bred cattle fed with high amount of concentrates. The all straw diet (RS) supplemented with PKC recorded a positive ADG of 133 g/day while the MIX gave 383 g/day matching total Napier grass diet.

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The current status and challenges of biomass biorefineries in Africa: A critical review and future perspectives for bioeconomy development

Fertahi

Elalami

Tayibi

et al. 2023

Science of The Total Environment

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Developing More Green Agribusiness: The Case for Exploiting Malaysia’s Under-Utilised Rice Straw

Abstract: Developing more potential green business is at the heart of sustainability. As

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Quantifying the Acceptance and Adoption Dynamics of Biochar and Co-biochar as a Sustainable Soil Amendment

Quantifying the Acceptance and Adoption Dynamics of Biochar and Co-biochar as a Sustainable Soil Amendment

Potential of feeding beef cattle with whole corn crop silage and rice straw in Malaysia

The current status and challenges of biomass biorefineries in Africa: A critical review and future perspectives for bioeconomy development

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