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Just like a lot of other countries, Nigeria’s staple food item is rice. It’s one of the largest importers of rice in the African continent. Africa’s most populous country is also the largest consumer of rice. What’s troubling is the fact that it still relies on the imports to satiate its growing rice consumption needs.

A good storage facility ensures safe storage conditions for the grains whilst protecting them from adverse weather conditions, pests, moisture, and micro-organisms. Depending upon the quality of the grains to be stored and the purpose of storage, a wide range of storage methods can be adopted. The most popular ones, however, are storage silos.

At the time of harvest, the moisture content of the rice grains ranges between 18 -25%. Post the harvest, the most critical operation is paddy drying. Drying reduces the moisture content in the grain which is a requisite if it is to be stored. Delaying the drying process or drying it unevenly would result in a qualitative loss.

India is a hub of finest rice mill plant manufacturers, exporters, distributors, and suppliers of the industry. They can manufacture and supply international quality rice mill plants and other milling machines as per the customer’s requirement. Also, they can develop a customized specification and good material made rice mill equipment and its accessories according to the customer’s business need.

In our previous blog, we talked about Red rice and its benefits. It may have been very informative for you considering that breed of rice is not popular. You are only aware of White rice, brown rice, parboiled rice, etc.

Everyone in the country knows what white rice or a brown rice is. However the awareness about parboiled rice is very limited. So it often happens that you are asked about what is parboiled rice when you tell someone that you consume this third of the many breeds of Rice.

"Nextech solutions, India’s leading rice mill plant manufacturer offer solutions that range from processing to storage." When it comes to storage in agriculture, Silos provide an efficient method of storing bulk quantities of grain.

The best rice mill Consultant, Nextech Solutions brings to its readers another interesting blog. Rice lovers all over the world really don’t look for reasons to eat rice but many including those that don’t consume rice are quite unaware that eating rice has a lot of benefits.