The western part of Esslingen as seen from the vineyards.

A second life for rice husk

by Alaric Francis Santiaguel

Rice husk, a waste by-product of farming, has become a gold mine of new products

IRRI Photo

Part of the image collection of the International Rice Research Institute (IRRI).

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The Special Programme for Food Security (SPFS) is being implemented in ten counties of China. Fifty farmer households were selected from one village in each project county to participate in the Farming System Diversification Component in 1999. Project activities include raising small livestock, fattening pigs, and rice and vegetable integrated development. Through diversification activities, demonstration households, who have taken initiatives in project activities, have greatly increased their income and improved their living standards.

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Rice in jute sacks being stacked by lady workers in a warehouse of a rice mill in Thailand.

Part of the image collection of the International Rice Research Institute (IRRI).

Stacks of rice in jute sacks at a warehouse of a rice mill in Nakornluang District, Ayutthaya.

Part of the image collection of the International Rice Research Institute (IRRI).

Female workers taking a rest inside the warehouse of a rice mill in Thailand.

Part of the image collection of the International Rice Research Institute (IRRI).

At a training and production centre for young women a treadle pump is used to draw water from a nearby irrigation canal.

This Technical Cooperation Project in Burkina Faso established artisanal tomato processing centres operated by women's groups. With the introduction of appropriate equipment and technology, these centres serve to extend the conservation of locally produced tomatoes throughout the off-season. The training and demonstration processing units supported by the project have allowed thousands of farmers and their family members, women and women's groups to process crops commercially as well as for home use.

The national food technology institute, with support from NGOs, has extended the technology throughout the country, organizing the local manufacture and sale of large numbers of solar dryers, resulting in the reduction of post-harvest losses and the generation of significant rural income and employment.

A female workerstaking a rest inside the warehouse of a rice mill in Thailand.

Part of the image collection of the International Rice Research Institute (IRRI).

Female workers taking a rest inside the warehouse of a rice mill in Thailand.

Part of the image collection of the International Rice Research Institute (IRRI).

Female workers taking a rest inside the warehouse of a rice mill in Thailand.

Part of the image collection of the International Rice Research Institute (IRRI).

Rice in jute sacks being stacked by lady workers in a warehouse of a rice mill in Thailand.

Part of the image collection of the International Rice Research Institute (IRRI).

A female workerstaking a rest inside the warehouse of a rice mill in Thailand.

Part of the image collection of the International Rice Research Institute (IRRI).

A female workerstaking a rest inside the warehouse of a rice mill in Thailand.

Part of the image collection of the International Rice Research Institute (IRRI).

Rice vendors in a market in Cambodia.

Seven hundred million of the world’s 1.1 billion poor people reside in rice-growing countries in Asia where rice is a staple.

In these areas, poor people spend as much as 40% of their income on rice.

To read more: What moves rice prices.

Part of the image collection of the International Rice Research Institute (IRRI).

Stacks of rice in jute sacks at a warehouse of a rice mill in Nakornluang District, Ayutthaya.

Part of the image collection of the International Rice Research Institute (IRRI).

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Boddin is in Angus. The Scots bothy haes its oreeginal in the Gaelic bothan or "hut." A bothy is either a rauch wee bigging that herds an fishers uses whiles for twa-three weeks at a time, or hill gangers uses a nicht or twa. On ferms the'r mair substantious biggings, mair like cottages, but kent as bothies, that ferm warkars bides in the hail year.

Photie taen bi Andy Eagle.

Stacks of rice in jute sacks at a warehouse of a rice mill in Nakornluang District, Ayutthaya.

Part of the image collection of the International Rice Research Institute (IRRI).

Bags of rice piled on top of each other.

Part of the image collection of the International Rice Research Institute (IRRI).

Stacks of rice in jute sacks at a warehouse of a rice mill in Nakornluang District, Ayutthaya.

Part of the image collection of the International Rice Research Institute (IRRI).

Mounds of unmilled rice stored in a private warehouse in Thailand.

Part of the image collection of the International Rice Research Institute (IRRI).

The barn was located near the Wilburne community in northwest Granville County. The barn resemble a type of agricultural structure that is called a pack house. The pack house was common on tobacco farms in the Southeast. The pack house was used to store cured tobacco, grade it, and bundle it ready for transport to the warehouse where it would be sold. Often, farmers would hold cured tobacco in the pack house hoping that prices would increase later in the buying season. Photograph was taken in 2010.

(This image is the property of Earl C. Leatherberry. Use of the image requires written permission. The image may not be sold or redistributed, copied or distributed as a photograph, electronic file, or any other media.)

Trucks unloading rice at a government owned wholesale rice paddy marke at Suphan Buri Province in Thailand.

Part of the image collection of the International Rice Research Institute (IRRI).

Mounds of unmilled rice stored in a private warehouse in Thailand.

Part of the image collection of the International Rice Research Institute (IRRI).

Mounds of unmilled rice stored in a private warehouse in Thailand.

Part of the image collection of the International Rice Research Institute (IRRI).

Stacks of rice in jute sacks at a warehouse of a rice mill in Nakornluang District, Ayutthaya.

Part of the image collection of the International Rice Research Institute (IRRI).

Old building in a Crofton, British Columbia meadow.

Mounds of unmilled rice stored in a private warehouse in Thailand.

Part of the image collection of the International Rice Research Institute (IRRI).

Bags of rice piled on top of each other.

Part of the image collection of the International Rice Research Institute (IRRI).

Mounds of unmilled rice stored in a private warehouse in Thailand.

Part of the image collection of the International Rice Research Institute (IRRI).

12. A suction pump is used to draw water from the Nile into a Nubian village in Egypt. Investment in transport and communication infrastructure is an essential part of any hunger-reduction strategy.

Photograph: FAO/Rosetta Messori

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