IMPROVING FARMER’S PROFITABILITY BY MINIMIZING GRAIN LOSS AND MAINTAINING QUALITY THROUGH CORRECT PROCEDURES DURING HARVESTING AND POST-HARVEST OPERATIONS "

Reduce overall grain production and value by cracking is one of the main problems directly reduces income and the availability of staple food to the farmers in the Mekong Delta. Cracking or fissuring of a grain of wheat that may occur in the rice field by harvest time is not right / real, post-harvest conditions improper drying and milling activities inconsistent. There are a series of activities during harvesting and processing rice harvest. Figure 1 is a diagram showing a system of rice production in the Mekong Delta of Vietnam today. All strings in this system may contribute to losses. Some...