Paddy is the most important and extensively grown food crop in the World. Rice grain (Oryza sativa) along with hulls/husk is known as paddy. Paddy seed contains a rough, hard and woody outer covering, called husk which make paddy as such inedible. It is the staple food of more than 60 percent of the world population. Rice is mainly produced and consumed in the Asian region. India is a second largest producer of rice in the world.
Rice milling is the process of removing the husk along with a part of bran from paddy. Husk, Bran and Broken Rice are the by-products of the rice milling industries.
Rice husk can be converted to a useful form of energy to meet the thermal and mechanical energy requirement for the mills themselves. This sector is currently in the process of major transformation that will ensure sufficient and reliable supply of power to every house in the country. Rice Bran is a very nutritional product and it contains about 16% to 18% oil. Rice bran oil is loaded with vitamin E components. 105 units working on rice bran as raw material make considerably profit by extracting rice bran oil. As a whole it is a good project for new entrepreneurs to invest.
Few Indian Major Players are as under
· Agrawal Oil Extractions Ltd.
· Cargill India Pvt. Ltd.
· Daawat Foods Ltd.
· Doon Valley Rice Ltd.
· Jagdamba Foods Ltd.
· Kohinoor Foods Ltd.
· Punjab Basmati Rice Ltd.
· Rei Agro Ltd.
· Shree Gopal Vanaspati Ltd.
· Sun Agro Foods & Exports Ltd.