First Stage of my Rice Processing Using Mortar after Harvesting

Hello, beautiful Hivers. Today, I will be talking about how you can comfortably process your rice using a mortar after it must have been harvested. This is a local method but it can save you cost. Before I will be able to express this experience of the second stage in rice processing after harvesting, I will like you to understand that there are so many processes used by different tribes across the globe and all are very important. This is the reason why I will not be shy to share this particular method used in my location.

I inherited this particular method of rice processing after harvesting from my grandmother but the problem with this method is that a lot of modernized people around used to laugh at me or others as they pointed out that the method of rice processing after harvesting is too local and stressful. But do you know that I used this method of rice processing as an exercise? The truth is that any time I process my rice using this method, I’m always relieved from pains in the arms, shoulder, waist, and many more.

It may also interest me to inform you that a lot of people regard this method of rice processing to be Threshing and whenever I or any of my relations are using this method, we normally remember some old songs given to us by our forefathers. At this time of rice processing in order for us not to remember that we are using our energy to hit the rice stem on a mutter back for them to start falling off, we used to sing the traditional songs given to us by our grandparents. This method also helps in promoting culture as the songs are remembered and never forgotten over the years.

Without much delay, it will interest me to provide you below with the threshing method of rice processing and the tools used after harvesting. But I will also like you to understand that I used this method immediately after I harvested the rice from the farmland.

Below I will be providing you with the tools that are commonly used in this rice threshing method:

Drum: This is an empty metal drum that a rice farmer used in hitting his or her rice after harvesting to enable the rice seed to be falling out from the rice stem.

Mortar: This is a hard round wood that is used for the pounding of food items in the kitchen but in the case of rice farming, the mortar is also used like drums for the hitting of rice after harvesting in order to help the rice seed covered by its shell to be falling out from the stem. This is the method I normally used.

Below, I will be providing you with the processing of rice seed hitting (Threshing):

After you must have harvested the rice from the rice farmland, you will have to leave the rice seed together with the stem inside the rice farmland for about 3 days. The 3 days will help the rice seed stem to be hit by the sun for proper drying.

Now, you will have to take a wide mat and spray around the location where you prefer to hit the rice. The wide mat will be where the rice seed will be falling out during the rice seed hitting.

After you must have sprayed the wide mate, lay down the mortar. After you must have laid down the mortar inside the wide mat, you will need to be parking the rice seed stem gradually according to the quantity that your hand could carry.

You will now have to start hitting the rice seed stem to the mortar laid down. The rice will be falling out.

By the time you are done hitting and the rice seed has fallen out. You will need to park the waste stem on one side which you will later burn.

Finally, you will have to use an empty carton or hand fan to blow off some particles that are attached to the rice seed.