Discussion
Statement I: Paddy is threshed at a lower cylinder speed than wheat.
Statement II: Rice kernels crack readily and a cracked kernel breaks again during milling.
In the light of the above statements, choose the correct answer.
Answer: A
Correct answer: Both Statement I and Statement II are correct
Both statements are correct and the second explains the practice. A rice kernel that is cracked at threshing does not merely look damaged - the crack is a plane of weakness along which the kernel breaks during hulling and whitening.
The loss therefore appears at the mill as a fall in head rice yield, and since whole grains fetch nearly twice the price of brokens, it is expensive. Threshing paddy more gently, at a lower cylinder speed, protects a value that is realised several steps later in the chain.
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