Quality characteristics of flood affected paddy (Oryza sativa L.) after milling

A significant element of the economy in general and the agricultural sector in particular is rice. Flooded paddy is frequently sold for a cheap price, which costs farmers money. In order to determine different milling parameters like head rice recovery, husked rice, broken rice and milling recover, the current study was carried out to examine these characteristics in flood-affected paddy in contrast to regular paddy. All of the milling quality characteristics, including the percentage of husked rice (N: 78.37% and F: 75.47%), head rice (N: 93.70% and F: 84.88%), broken rice (N: 6.28% and F: 15.10%), and milling recovery (N: 73.44% and F: 64.07%) between the normal paddy and flood-affected paddy, showed statistically significant differences at p <0.05. This shows that flood affected rice can be utilized for producing various value added products so that it can be sold at higher price and fetches good income to the farmers residing in flood affected areas. Therefore, further extensive research is needed for the utilization of paddy for the production of more feasible and convenient products in order to minimize the economic losses to the farmers.