Global Ecovillage Network/Solution Library/Drying mechanism for rice

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Drying rice in the fields (sensitive to moist, rain etc). During some seasons, poor quality rice.

This link features instructions on how to build a fixed batch heated air drying bin from local materials. The goal of this design was to create a dryer that could maintain rice quality at a low capital and operating cost yielding a reasonably high dry time while remaining accessible to small-scale processing.

• Seeds, Food & Soil.

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• http://www.appropedia.org/Drying_mechanism_for_rice
• http://www.knowledgebank.irri.org/rkb/index.php/examples-of-dryers*
• http://www.appropedia.org/Rice#Drying