Processing industries: valuable strategy for reducing rice losses

Reduction in rice losses can indirectly leads to decrease in production costs and increase in farmers’ income as well as in production rate. To obtain this aim, processing stage should be of concern in addition to use of modern technologies during planting, growing and harvesting operations. Integrated industry is an important step for optimum use of rice losses. In addition to rice which is the major product of rice farming, its byproducts such as paddy stalk, rice bran, broken rice and straw are of commercial and economic potential. In this overview, use of various technologies in rice processing industries in order to process the rice byproducts will be investigated.