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Rice cultivation:
Did you know that rice is grass and we eat its seeds? Rice is the main food crop in most parts of the world. It forms the staple food for many people in India too. The most common method of growing rice is transplantation. This method is practiced in areas where the soil is very fertile and there is plenty of rainfall. This is the reason why rice is mainly grown in region which receives heavy rainfall and fertile soil. To make sure sufficient water is available to plant rice most formers maintain flooded conditions in their fields. seedlings are uprooted for 4-5 weeks and planted in a flooded field. After the crops are fully grown they are harvested by machine. Crops are cute and separated with the help of machines.
How you can buy rice at a lower price
You can keep in mind certain things.
Mainly 3 things.
• Moisture content in rice
• Broken percentage of rice
• Finance
How you can use three tools to make the rice price lower.
For example, if you buying Sona masoori rice or you buying IR 64 rice ppt or basmati rice
When the miller mills the rice he dries almost 9.5 point moisture which makes the rice looks whiter or creamier but if he increases the moisture to 9.5 to 11 % the prices can go down to another 1 rupee or in the foreign transaction price go down 10 dollars per ton, when they moisture till 9.5% to get the whiter look the broken percentage increases due to high dryness process, so naturally broken grains will increase ultimately increase the price of rice because he has to compensate the broken rice price.
The disadvantage of extra moisture rice:
Now when you buy rice, for example, Sona masoori or basmati rice the moisture will be 10 to 11 % these are paddy rice, not milled rice. milled rice moisture is 14%. Never buy rice that has more than 14% moisture. You can face the problems of customers regarding cooking complaints, quality will be very bad.
The 2nd disadvantage of more than 14% moisture rice is when you shipped those rice or export those rice or when you stock or use it later in a month, the fungus can attract to the rice the chances are much higher. If you want to expand your rice business you have to offer more rice to your customer, if your wholesaler and your customer is a retailer, they will want some masuri, basmati, Italy rice
Rice processing:
when the paddy comes to the factory almost 130 tests are applied to find its quality e.g. physical test, chemical test, and microwave test just to make sure that the rice is perfect. So that it won’t carry pesticides or heavy metal organisms.
After that rice is aged in factories for 6th months to 1 year of storage. After that, the process of cleaning is applied which purifies the dirt, and impurities from the rice after that clean paddy is taken to the machines for removing its husk. From that husk, electricity generates. it means even the wastage is used in the electricity generation process. After that brown rice which is coded with bran have processed into machines for polishing. After that rice was staged in jute bags in warehouses. Each warehouse's capacity to store bulk rice can be 26000 tons. It is aged in warehouses for more than 1-year storage. After sorting machines which is having too many cameras which checked every single grain with the micro level if the rice is discolored, not refined, or still not aged, machines will separate the rice even the tips which are discolored are rejected by the machine. all imperfection is being vanished through these sorting machines.
Different classifications of rice:
India gate rice: it is aged for more than 2 years and after cooking it increases its size by more than 3 mm it has a beautiful aroma after cooking, and 2 years age process intensifies the rice aroma. It has many more classifications of rice which harvest and grown in India these are: White rice, brown rice, red rice, parboiled rice Palakaddan matta rice Black rice Basmati rice wild rice, and Jasmine rice are the example of it.
The market where to buy rice:
If we analyze the production of rice in 2020 it was about 178 million metric tons. India is the second largest producer of rice most highly cultivating rice is IR64, CR2301 KUDRAT 5. If we analyze the last 60 years' data it increased rapidly by 3.5 times. Nagpur Chennai, Dindigul, Darjeeling New Delhi, Mumbai, Mundra, kalol Amritsar, Khambhat, jodhpur, Dadra Nagar, Noida theni, Salim, Ambikapur, Lucknow, Pune, Kalan, Faridabad, jam tart, Bhandara, Bengaluru these are the cities in which a merchant can purchase or a whole seller can buy rice for his own business... These cities have the finest quality and suppliers where you can buy rice in bulk for starting your business at the very lowest price.
Market scenario and grain length:
Grain length: Grain length will not matter in the case of the domestic level if you trading within India. If you went to the market of Karnataka Tamil Nadu, or Andhra Pradesh to buy rice you will not have the question of asking what is the length of the grain of rice. because most of the millers involved Sona masoori, kolam, and HMT.RNR nelson, non ppt 37 Italy rice Puni rice normally length does not come into the discussion.
Where else; when it comes to white rice shawarma which is for the export market where grain length comes into the picture
The difference in mm of rice:
if you are exporting and the customer asked you for IR64, they normally expected the 6mm rice If you look at Raipur 36ghud. Gondia Chandra, these kinds of regions in Maharashtra, where aya64 is normally 5.8 or 5.9 mm or 6mm range where if you go to Kolkata you can find 6.4 mm, or even more than that length in IR 64. Miller directly asked you about the length requirement. you need to share it with the miller specifically what mm length you required to trade, or for your business.