CSIR-CFTRI conducts 3 week training programme on rice milling for Guyana delegates

NT Correspondent

Mysuru: CSIR-CFTRI h a s organized a three weeks training programme on “Rice Milling and Value Addition to Rice” for Guyanese Delegation under Indian Technical and Economic Cooperat ion (IT EC) Programme sponsored by Ministry of External Affairs (MEA), Government of India at is campus from February 27 to March 18 at its campus in the city.

As many as 29 Guyanese delegates took part in this training programme. In his inaugural address, chief scientist (Retd) Dr S Zakiuddin Ali highlighted the importance of organizing this training programme as it helps both the partners.

As the course is based on Rice – one among the three major cereals other than wheat and maize has been termed internationally as the grain of life because of its stable and sustainable food for half of the world’s population.

The processing of rice is very important in every state to make commercially superior quality whole grain rice, About 90 per cent of the rice for the world is grown in South-East Asia and Southern Asia.

India is contributing 35-40 percent of total rice trade in the past few years During the three week training, the participants were taught about on the topics such as grain processing, production and agronomy, rice milling; packaging of rice and rice products; drying paddy; ageing of rice, rice byproducts and its utilization; parboiling of paddy; extrusion cooking.

They were also taught about rice flaking, nutritional and nutraceutical quality of rice, quality assurance of rice and rice products, Infestation control, food safety and quality aspects of grain products, CFTRI Technologies on Rice and Rice products etc.