28/07/2022

Need

Brown rice, unpolished rice has better nutritional value as compare to polished white rice. Brown rice has been traditionally produced in villages by a hand-pounding process, but hand pounding of rice is a very slow process with lots of drudgeries. A simple machine developed by Vigyan Ashram can help a rural enterprise to earn a sustainable income while providing value addition of raw rice..

Advantages

  • While dehusking rice, it retains volatile content in rice.
  • It retains bran in the rice. Difference in colour of rice is visible and need no convincing.
  • Breakage of rice < 2% , Percentage of husk removal is over 86 %.
  • It tries to address stocking problem. It will create a system to stock raw rice and supply brown rice as per the demand. This innovation will make it feasible to process rice in small quantity.
  • It can be purchased by women SHG. Such group can sell brown rice.
  • Price of Machine: Rs.1.42 L.

Features

  • Food grade rubber rollers for dehusking.
  • Size of machine- 1300 *600*800 mm.
  • Weight of machine-Approx 80 Kg.
  • Electrical Load – 1 HP , 230 v AC, 0.75 Amps.
  • Hopper Size – 10 Kg.
  • De-husking Capacity- 15-20 Kg / Hr.