Indian Rice Conclave: New technology for milling paddy to save time, money

Vijayawada: The Indian Rice Conclave 2017 concluded that a new technology can be adopted to process the Paddy before it reaches the rice mill. As of now, farmers keep rice for 3 to 4 months to get ready for milling. Dr Meera from Mysore, who participated in the conclave, proposed a technology that can render the rice ready for milling immediately. The Special Chief Secretary of Agri-culture Mr Rajasekhar agreed to adopt the new technology on trail basis after getting approval from the Chief Minister.

The conclave decided to bring the paddy variety, which will have more nutrition values. As the rice consumption is more, if the nutrient valued rice can be give to people, they can have good nutrient values. The conclave discussed this and decided to start the process by getting approval from the Government of Andhra Pradesh.

The second day of the conclave focussed mainly on marketing and value additions of the paddy. The varieties, which have good market abroad can be encouraged and the associated paddy products also to be gear up in the coming future.