You’re reducing unemployment
Modern rice milling process requires the use of modern rice milling machines which will be handled by people you employed. It simply means you’re reducing people redundancy by creating job opportunities.
Challenges of the rice milling business
It can be capital intensive
Modern rice milling machines are what makes the milling process easier and get the desired finish product. But the machines can be capital intensive. For many who are not financially buoyant, you’ll need to find investors who can invest in the business. And you can’t find someone to finance the business, it becomes really difficult to put the rice milling business idea to work.
Constant maintenance is required
Unlike traditional rice milling machines, the modern iron roller rice mill will require routine maintenance for it to give the required efficiency that produces the desired output. The cost of maintaining such machines can be expensive.
Rice milling is one of the post-harvest handling technology that is quite popular in agriculture (rice farmers). This discrete rice mill mchine has helped many farmers in terms of processing paddy to rice. In the aspect of business, these machines are also able to increase the marketability of agricultural products as opposed to selling in the form of paddy directly. On the other hand, demand for rice continues to increase, because rice has been a staple food for most countries in the world. Hence the development of rice mill machine is more effective, more efficient and more quality is promising. In the processing of un-hulled rice, in order to produce high-quality rice, we have to use some machines like paddy rice huller machine, husk separator, rice polisher and rice sifter.
(1) Paddy rice huller machine is used to break and release bran (husk). Input materials of this machine is a un-hulled rice with a moisture content of about 14% and output in the form of brown rice (pure white).
(2) Husk separator is used to separate grain of rice and husk using a blower system. The system utilizes the difference in specific gravity between rice and husk. Rice husking machine has a smaller specific gravity to be sucked by the blower, while rice tend not to be affected by the air blower and straight out through the rice outlet.
(3) Rice grinder is used to remove the epidermis (aleuron) on brown rice to produce white rice that is ready to be marketed or cooked. This machine uses the screw extruder system in the cylinder which has the inner surface uneven. When brown rice fed into the cylinder it will jostle and rub against the cylinder surface which causes the epidermis to be eroded.
(4) Grain grinding machine is used to separate the rice based group quality such as whole rice (best quality) and broken rice (second quality). This machine uses a filter screen plate or cylinder shaped. Rice with some sort of quality level will be mixed again with a certain ratio to determine the selling price before the rice is packaged to be marketed.
This article will explain in more detail on the description of the machine, but it is limited to brown rice huller and separator machine. Both machines will be combined into one machine as the title of this article, namely combined rice machine: paddy rice huller, chaff cutter and husk separator. Description of these machines include machine construction, main part of the machine, basic concept of brown rice huller and separator, machine principle and machine operation.
