Rice Storage Method

2015-08-06

Ensure the quality of rice inside silo: for high moisture content and impurity, content, unsound grain, as well the rice is easy to fever and mildew, which makes the rice’s storage time is short, so ensuring the rice quality before loading in silo is very important in rice storage. The safe standard of rice moisture depends on rice variety, season, region, climate condition. Generally the moisture content is not exceeding 13%-14%. The rice is better, the impurity and unsound rice is less. For the rice with high moisture content, large impurity, the user shall store the rice according to rice grade, as well dry and remove the impurity in time.

Timely ventilation: as the fresh rice’s strong breath, high rice temperature and moisture content, user shall keep rice timely ventilated, low temperature and moisture content. Especially in autumn, big temperature difference between inside and outside of the silo, user shall keep rice ventilated frequently, if the condition is permitted, user can adopts  mechanical ventilation .

Low temperature and sealed: make full use of the winter’s drying to keep the rice ventilated and low the rice temperature under 10, as well low the moisture content into safe standard. Before spring, the temperature begin to rise, user must seal the silo to keep the rice storage go through the summer smoothly.