An Overview of the Factors Affecting the Incidence of Wheat Crop Losses and Providing the Strategies to Reduce it in Iran

Author: Amin Lotfalian Dehkordi and Marziye Ansari Samani

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Abstract

Large amounts of currency are annually spent on wheat imports. On the one hand, evidence suggests that wheat and bread wastes are very high in Iran. The controversial issue of the growing food waste process is one of the major challenges for many countries, especially developing countries. In the Third World, politicians and thinkers of scientific assemblies have sought to reduce the losses of agricultural crops in the stages of planting, growing, and harvesting as well as distribution and consumption stages. Overall, the amount of wheat losses in Iran can be divided into several categories: (1) Losses at the planting stage, which is related to the excess amount of seed consumption. This amount is usually about 20% of total seed consumption, which is about 2% of the total waste of wheat production of the country and is mainly due to the lack of proper planting techniques and the application of inappropriate planting techniques, such as using the centrifuge or hand sprayers, lack of pro

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Wastes, wheat, crop, agriculture, management, planting, growing, harvesting.

Conclusion

Large amounts of currency are annually spent on wheat imports. On the one hand, evidence suggests that wheat and bread wastes are very high in Iran. The controversial issue of the growing food waste process is one of the major challenges for many countries, especially developing countries. In the Third World, politicians and thinkers of scientific assemblies have sought to reduce the losses of agricultural crops in the stages of planting, growing, and harvesting as well as distribution and consumption stages. Overall, the amount of wheat losses in Iran can be divided into several categories: (1) Losses at the planting stage, which is related to the excess amount of seed consumption. This amount is usually about 20% of total seed consumption, which is about 2% of the total waste of wheat production of the country and is mainly due to the lack of proper planting techniques and the application of inappropriate planting techniques, such as using the centrifuge or hand sprayers, lack of pro

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Millions of dollars are annually leaving out of the country for importing materials including: -Livestock and poultry feed, various types of human, livestock and poultry consumption proteins and their supplements; -Types of amino acids such as lysine, alanine, citric, lactic, glutamate and others; -Types of chemicals such as alcohol, furfural, pectin, acetone and so on; -Variety of essential oils for the consumption of food and health industries; and -Types of paper and its pulp. And this process takes an increasing rate each year, while the volume of agricultural wastes in the country's farms can be considered notably. This issue is important when it comes to recognize that waste and residues of farms in other countries are the main supply source of these materials for export to Iran and similar countries. In all agricultural processes and related industries, secondary products are also produced in addition to the principal products, which include a large volume; and many advanc

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Amin Lotfalian Dehkordi and Marziye Ansari Samani (2017). An Overview of the Factors Affecting the Incidence of Wheat Crop Losses and Providing the Strategies to Reduce it in Iran , Biological Forum – An International Journal 9(2): 114-117.