Equipment Performance, Costs and Constraints of Packaging and Transporting Rice Straw for Alternative Uses to Burning in the “Parc Natural l’Albufera de València” (Spain)

Rice straw is a residue that causes significant environmental problems, as burning it CO2 and ash emissions, while buried waste can cause issues associated with eutrophication. The extraction of from fields for alternative uses may contribute to solving these but research into its economic viability necessary. be used crop mulching, biofuel, bedding livestock, so on. In this study, we analyse the work carried out by harvesting machines (rakes, balers, bundlers, loaders) calculate costs packing, road-siding, transportation rice stockage points in producer area, well locations outside production order assess viability. all elemental operations were calculated. included between raking unloading area stocking point ranged 28.1 51 EUR t−1. These compared price rain-fed cereal (wheat barley), which most abundant, noting years reached high prices, could serve competitive product; however, when former cheap, would necessary subsidise straw.