M/S. VIJAYALAKSHMI AGRO FOOD INDUSTRIES

Some amount of polishing or removal of bran layers is essential for easy cooking and storage. There are two types of polishers (whiteners). We have an imported unit of Polishers to get maximum brightness and to minimise the breakage of rice.

Principle of cleaning paddy is based on difference in physical properties such as weight, size, density properties of impurities, and paddy impurities lighter than paddy are removed by an aspirator.

Unique fully automatic and mechanized sensor based temperature controlled gradual drying system, with 12 tonnes per hour drying capacity, ensures consistent and uniform drying of paddy without breaking the delicate rice grain. The process mitigates any scope of fermentation and bacterial / fungal infections, simultaneously preserving its natural aroma.

The mixture of shelled paddy (brown rice), remaining unshelled paddy some brokens and husk comes out of the Sheller. This mixture is subjected to sieving-cum aspiration / aspiration to separate brokens and husk. Sieving prior to aspiration helps to recover the brokens. Husk is separated from heavier paddy and rice by aspiration.

Shelling is never done to a 100 percent level to avoid rice breakage. Grains differ in size. So smaller grains remain unshelled. A paddy separator is thus used to separate paddy from brown rice.The separated paddy is returned to the sheller while brown rice is carried forward to the polisher. The separation is accomplished by taking advantage or the differences in density, size and surface roughness between paddy and brown rice.

We have modern machines fully equipped, which cleans rice, removes discoursed grains, leaving behind clean (pearl white grains). For sortexing of rice we have Satake Optical Sorter.

After polishing operations, the milled rice contains head rice and broken of different sizes. Separation of brokens from head rice is termed grading.

Automatic weighers receive the material (either intake paddy or polished rice) in a continuous flow and release it in predetermined quantities by weight. Automatic baggers ensures dust free bagging of finished products and records number of weighments made.