Recommendations for Safe Storage of Rice in a Silo
What You Need to Know Before Storing Rice: Rice is one of the most difficult foods to preserve because the rice has lost the protective layer of its skin and its nutrients are directly exposed. Therefore, it is sensitive to the influence of external temperature, humidity, and gas components. It has strong hygroscopicity, high bacterial load, and rapid metabolism of nutrients. It is easily prone to problems such as aging, mildew, insect damage, and quality deterioration. Especially under high temperature and high humidity conditions in summer, the rate of aging and mildew of rice accelerates, causing the acidity of rice to increase, the viscosity to decrease, and the rice losing its edible value. Storing Rice in Grain Silo Rice storage is an important link in the acquisition, transportation, processing, storage and sales of grain circulation. According to market demand, paddy is processed into rice, which is usually processed and sold at the same time. However, in some large and mediu