Turning Paddy into Rice: Process of Drying and Preparing Homegrown Rice

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I hope everyone is well and enjoying their lives as everyone knows that the time of paddy harvest has passed. Everyone has harvested it and sold it and some of the paddy crop has been kept at home which is used in the homes. Similarly, we also buy rice so that we can use it for the home. Today I am putting before you the procedure of how we make it usable. I hope you will understand it easily and like it.

After harvesting the paddy crop, we sell it, then it goes to big factories, where a complete procedure is done due to which we get this rice. And that rice comes to the market and we buy it. But there is no factory etc. in the houses, so the easy way is that we spread the rice in the sun. So that it gets good sun for about four to five days. It then dries because when we cut it, it is wet.

To dry it in the sun, first of all, we either have a clean place where we can spread it or we have some sheets on which we can spread it. I have three large sheets which I have laid on top of my second roof so I used these sheets because when we collect it in the evening, it will be easier to collect. If we hold the sheet on one side and lift it, all the rice that is there will be collected in one place.

After laying the sheets, I took my paddy crop up to the roof and after taking it there, I took it out of all the bags. After taking it out of the bags, I then laid it on top of all my sheets and lightly pressed it. By lightly pressed I mean I made it single, I didn't leave it double anywhere because the more single it is, the more sun it will feel and the faster it will dry.

We have to spread it in the morning when it is around nine to 10 o'clock so that the dew etc. has disappeared and our soil or our sheet has to start getting heat. Then we have to spread it. So I used to spread it again like this every morning.

In the evening, I used to collect them and put them in three places. After collecting them there, I used to put this same sheet on top of them. After putting these sheets on top, I used to put a big sheet on top of them and cover it well. So that if it rains or dew falls at night, the rice would not get wet, so I used to cover it so much to protect it from water.

This was my procedure for four consecutive days. In the morning, I spread it in the sun and collected it in the evening. Now, finally, it is dry because we have to dry it so that when we take it to any mill and put it in the machine there, it will then come off the top in a good way. If it is wet, the rice will break.

I took it down from my roof and took it to the mill in our village near me. They also have a rice-cleaning machine there. We started putting it in the machine from one side first, the side from where the crop will go in. And from there it will lift it and take it to the other machine.

So she picked it up from here and took it to another machine near her where it would be rubbed and about half of the rice would be cleaned.

Here, it will be thoroughly rubbed in this machine, and when the rubbing is complete, they will take it out of their machine and then throw it into another pipeline. From the second pipeline, this rice will again go upwards.

Each machine has its procedure, so it first takes it from the bottom up, then from the top down, then now it goes up again, and after going up it will go to the final machine.

Now it is going to the final machine through a pipe, where this rice will continue to be collected. When that machine is full, it will be run again. When it is run, then its final cleaning will take place there. If we rub it a little more there, then there is a risk of our rice breaking more because some of our rice is already wet in some places, which are wet while cutting. Therefore, even if we dry them a lot, they remain wet. Therefore, we have to be careful there. When they are collected here in this machine, it will be run and then it will be cleaned and finally our rice will come out.

Our final rice is coming out from the front side of this machine, which is clean, white in color, and looks beautiful.

After much effort, the rice still breaks, some break more, and some break in half. We have a separate machine to separate these three, so now all the rice will be put in this machine. The function of this machine is that it makes three varieties of rice. One is the solid rice, the other is half, and the third is the rice that is divided into three parts, so it will separate these three.

As soon as we put all the rice in this machine, we turned on the machine. There are three types of nets under it, from which the smallest rice starts counting from the first row, those that are slightly larger than it, those that are half, start falling from the next net, those that are large rice do not fall from this row, they reach the end and there they are collected separately. In this way, this machine has divided our rice into three parts. One took out our proven rice, the second took out our half rice, and the third took out the rice that had been divided into three parts.

In this way, after harvesting this rice crop, we sold some and saved some for ourselves, which we wanted to use for our home. So, we did this whole procedure to use it for our home, and after that, finally, we got this rice, which we will now use in our home.

This is how we made our rice edible. I hope you all enjoyed it. Thank you all for stopping by. See you in a new post with new content. Until then, I ask for your permission. May Allah protect you.

_{Dated: 03-12-2024 About Me}