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A Value added sustainable production opportunity out of rice straw to economically uplift rice farming communities

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dc.contributor.author Suriyaarachchi DP
dc.contributor.author Ranasinghe WMND
dc.contributor.author Dissanayake MK
dc.contributor.author Nugawela CT
dc.date.accessioned 2023-12-19T05:35:16Z
dc.date.available 2023-12-19T05:35:16Z
dc.date.issued 2023
dc.identifier.uri http://dl.lib.uom.lk/handle/123/21983
dc.description.abstract In the Sri Lankan Agriculture Sector, rural rice cultivation farmers have found the best way of eliminating the highly generating rice straw by direct open field burning due to the high cost of straw collection and management, transportation cost, storage difficulties, shortage of rural labour, cost factors of organic fertiliser making, and lack of adequate methods and technology. These practices have created a number of environmental and social impacts .Increase of heat generation, emission of greenhouse gases, causes damage to micro organisms in the upper soil layer and reduces microbial activities, soil deterioration, damages the air quality and negatively impacts on human health. This experimental project comprised two phases, material development phase and product design phase. The concept was, management through value addition. The project approach was to come up with an effective and creative management solution for the highly- generating rice straw and minimise the current practices by introducing a method to reutilize while coming up with a value addition for the rural rice farming community. The main aim of this project was to improve rural farmers’ livelihoods by fostering sustainable rice straw management into a sustainable paradigm. This experimental project focused on rice straw conversion into value-added material development which was able to create a sustainable product solution for the market while creating a production opportunity for the rural community as a secondary income source. The final goal of the project was to economically uplift the lives of rural farmers by providing an additional income mainly for the non-cultivation period. en_US
dc.language.iso en en_US
dc.publisher Department of Integrated Design, Faculty of Architecture, University of Moratuwa. en_US
dc.subject Rice straw en_US
dc.subject Sustainable production en_US
dc.subject Value addition, en_US
dc.subject Rice farming communities en_US
dc.subject Sustainable material innovation en_US
dc.title A Value added sustainable production opportunity out of rice straw to economically uplift rice farming communities en_US
dc.type Conference-Abstract en_US
dc.identifier.faculty Architecture en_US
dc.identifier.department Department of Integrated Design en_US
dc.identifier.year 2023 en_US
dc.identifier.conference Awakening the economy through design innovation en_US
dc.identifier.place Moratuwa, Sri Lanka en_US
dc.identifier.pgnos pp. 45-49 en_US
dc.identifier.proceeding IDR Conference Proceedings - Vol. 02, November 2023 en_US
dc.identifier.email dpsuriyarachchi06@gmail.com en_US
dc.identifier.email dilshanir@uom.lk en_US
dc.identifier.email melani@uom.lk en_US
dc.identifier.email chathurangid@uom.lk en_US
dc.identifier.doi https://doi.org/10.31705/IDR.2023.13 en_US


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