Rice is a vital food material for mare than half of the world's population,the importance of which as a food crop has been increasing with increase in population.It is estimated that the rice requirement for Kerala is about 7500 tones per day whereas the production within the state is grossly inadequate to meet the requirement. The productivity of paddy in the state at the current level is sub
optimal,meeting only 15% of the requirement and the remaining 85% requirement is met from neighbouring state of Tamil Nadu,Andhra Pradesh,karnataka. Modern RICE-MILLS are scientifically up-to-date units ,with most modern plant and machinery .rice produced is a Modern Mill would be of superior quality and thereby finding greator customer acceptance.Further, the by -product of such mills ,Rice Bran ,could find great demand as raw material among solvent Extraction plants.
