Field Study of Rice Post-Harvest Losses in Rice Processing In Southeastern Nigeria: A Case Study of Abakaliki Rice Mill Complex.
Nigeria has enormous potentials for the production and processing of rice not only for domestic consumption but for export, that is, if it is well grown, harvested, cleaned, handled, dried, stored, milled, transported, and marketed. This work showcases the activities of the Abakaliki rice mill compl...
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Enugu State University of Science and Technology, ESUT, Enugu, Nigeria.
2016-11-01
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| description | Nigeria has enormous potentials for the production and processing of rice not only for domestic consumption but for export, that is, if it is well grown, harvested, cleaned, handled, dried, stored, milled, transported, and marketed. This work showcases the activities of the Abakaliki rice mill complex through development of questionnaire, administration of questionnaire and valid respondent assertion/contributions.The result shows that the study had the requisite requirements to carry out this research based on the level of education and experiences of the respondents (staff). 51.6% of the respondents had secondary education, 29% tertiary education, 16% primary education and 3.2% studied under informal education. Also 63% of the respondents had 10 years experience and 37% less than 10 years experience. Over seventeen (17) rice varieties were identified to be processed at the mill complex and that unit of operations like cleaning, grading, soaking, steaming, drying and to little extent, bagging are done manually. Virtually, all the unit of operations encountered losses except for little losses recorded during steaming and size grading.81% of the respondents declared that lack of technical know-how is one of the causes of losses as well as machine obsolescence. Therefore, the result shows that losses foraparticularricevarietyis specificandasuchshouldbehandledunique. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-a3656863c7ef4181b6021f00b1f33d5b2022-12-21T17:16:39ZengEnugu State University of Science and Technology, ESUT, Enugu, Nigeria.Journal of Experimental Research2315-96502502-05242016-11-01123159650Field Study of Rice Post-Harvest Losses in Rice Processing In Southeastern Nigeria: A Case Study of Abakaliki Rice Mill Complex.Nigeria has enormous potentials for the production and processing of rice not only for domestic consumption but for export, that is, if it is well grown, harvested, cleaned, handled, dried, stored, milled, transported, and marketed. This work showcases the activities of the Abakaliki rice mill complex through development of questionnaire, administration of questionnaire and valid respondent assertion/contributions.The result shows that the study had the requisite requirements to carry out this research based on the level of education and experiences of the respondents (staff). 51.6% of the respondents had secondary education, 29% tertiary education, 16% primary education and 3.2% studied under informal education. Also 63% of the respondents had 10 years experience and 37% less than 10 years experience. Over seventeen (17) rice varieties were identified to be processed at the mill complex and that unit of operations like cleaning, grading, soaking, steaming, drying and to little extent, bagging are done manually. Virtually, all the unit of operations encountered losses except for little losses recorded during steaming and size grading.81% of the respondents declared that lack of technical know-how is one of the causes of losses as well as machine obsolescence. Therefore, the result shows that losses foraparticularricevarietyis specificandasuchshouldbehandledunique.http://www.er-journal.com/papers/ohagwu_DEC_2013.pdf |
| spellingShingle | Field Study of Rice Post-Harvest Losses in Rice Processing In Southeastern Nigeria: A Case Study of Abakaliki Rice Mill Complex. Journal of Experimental Research |
| title | Field Study of Rice Post-Harvest Losses in Rice Processing In Southeastern Nigeria: A Case Study of Abakaliki Rice Mill Complex. |
| title_full | Field Study of Rice Post-Harvest Losses in Rice Processing In Southeastern Nigeria: A Case Study of Abakaliki Rice Mill Complex. |
| title_fullStr | Field Study of Rice Post-Harvest Losses in Rice Processing In Southeastern Nigeria: A Case Study of Abakaliki Rice Mill Complex. |
| title_full_unstemmed | Field Study of Rice Post-Harvest Losses in Rice Processing In Southeastern Nigeria: A Case Study of Abakaliki Rice Mill Complex. |
| title_short | Field Study of Rice Post-Harvest Losses in Rice Processing In Southeastern Nigeria: A Case Study of Abakaliki Rice Mill Complex. |
| title_sort | field study of rice post harvest losses in rice processing in southeastern nigeria a case study of abakaliki rice mill complex |
| url | http://www.er-journal.com/papers/ohagwu_DEC_2013.pdf |