The process also works with other agricultural waste. “Any building blocks such as rice straw, barley bran husk, corncob, sugarcane bagasse, wheat bran and wheat straw could be degraded with the ...

Milling rice to separate the grain from the husks, produces about 100 million tons of rice husk waste globally each year. Scientists searching for a scalable method to fabricate quantum dots have ...

As Vietnam seeks to modernize its agricultural sector and stay globally competitive, the circular economy is emerging as a ...

Researchers from the Indian Institute of Technology in Madras have devised a microwave-assisted heating method that can help convert agricultural and plastic waste into bio-oils 1. They have ...

Much of the world's agricultural waste contains silica, and the search for a practical way to extract it stretches back 80 years. While the new process could be used to produce silica and silicon ...

University of Michigan. "Turning rice farming waste into useful silica compounds." ScienceDaily. ScienceDaily, 17 December 2015. <www.sciencedaily.com / releases / 2015 / 12 / 151217143347.htm>.

Its high nitrogen concentration makes it easy to carry to agricultural fields to a variety of crops, including rice plants. Rice plants are one of the most significant food crops, and they play a ...

Engineering rice to waste less fertilizer Most of the phosphorus fertilizer goes to the seeds, ends up wasted. John Timmer – Dec 21, 2016 1:18 PM | 74 ...