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Rice company shooting for higher quality with new $3 million mill
(Volume 26, No. 520)
This file photograph shows a worker in Pyapon township at a rice mill. Pic: Aye Zaw Myo
A RICE company is building a K3 billion (US$3 million) mill to export high-quality rice to Europe.
A spokesperson for Shwe Kawa Myay rice company, based in Kawa township, Bago Division, says the mill will produce so-called 5-mark rice, which contains only 5 percent broken rice, as well as the lower-quality 25-mark rice.
The spokesperson said the mill should be completed before the monsoon paddy harvest in October or November.
The mill and a storage warehouse for processed white rice and the brown rice that serves as the raw material will be built at a 5-acre site in Ngwe Pin Le Industrial Zone in Shwe Pyi Thar township in Yangon Division, said U Thadoe Hein, managing director of Shwe Kawa Myay.
“The rice will first be prepared by a husker to be built at Kawa and then transported to the mill in Yangon,” he said.
The husker, which is yet to be built, will employ about 20 workers and should be capable of producing 100-150 tonnes a day of the Ayeyar Min, Kyun Shwewar, Manaw Tun and Shwewar Tun rice varieties.
The parts for the mill will be imported from Japan and Germany and assembled by Thai engineers, then run by Myanmar engineers.
The 100 employees will include engineers, managers and quality controllers, said U Cho Win Hlaing, a director of Shwe Kawa Myay.
The electric-powered mill will grind 10 tonnes of brown grain per hour and will run 24 hours a day subject to the availability of raw material, which will come from Kawa township.
“Five-mark rice is whiter than 25-mark rice, so for this we need a wet polisher and a colour sorter,” said U Thadoe Hein.
“We are aiming at producing high quality rice to increase our profit,” he said, adding that the 25-mark rice would be sold on the African market.
