Table 1 Scenarios and post-harvest operations covered in the study in Maubin, Ayeyarwady delta, Myanmar during three rice cropping seasons.
Scenarios | Post-harvest operations | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Harvesting | Drying | Storage | Milling | ||
Cutting | Threshing | ||||
WS2014 | |||||
FP1w: Farmer practice with 1-week delay of threshing | Manual cutting, stacking rice 1 week in field s | Farmer thresher | Sun drying | Granary bag | Using local rice mill 1 t h−1 for all treatments |
FP4w: Farmer practice with 4 weeks delay of threshing | Manual cutting, stacking rice 4 weeks in fields | ||||
IPR: Improved post-harvest practice with improved thresher, flatbed dryer, and hermetic storage | Manual cutting, threshing immediately after cutting | Improved thresher | Flatbed dryer | Hermetic Super bag | |
DS2015 and 2016 | |||||
FP: farmer practice | Manual cutting | Farmer thresher | Sun drying | Granary bag | Using local rice mill 1 t h−1 for all treatments |
IPRc: Improved post-harvest practice with combine harvester, flatbed dryer, and hermetic storage | Combine harvester | Flatbed dryer | Hermetic Super bag | ||
