09.Conclusion

 

In Rice Mill Industry employees and employers have various ways to go about putting employee skills development into practice. In rice mill industry as human resource officers our goal should be to strengthen employee’s broad range of skills, whether it be flexibility, organization, creativity, communication, or leadership since most of employees in this industry are labours.

In practically this industry must use modern techniques to get a good employer brand. But most of workers are with lack of knowledge of machine operating. That’s why I believe the most suitable method is “On-the-job” training. The training contains Coaching and Mentoring, Understudy, Job Rotation, Special Projects Assignments, Committee Assignments, Self-Instructional Mode.

 So, employees learn how to use something or apply the methods as they complete the assigned tasks with new techniques. As most of rice mills typically don’t have the time to train every single employee on every single skill especially if that skill does not require specific knowledge, it is hard to get recover from this situation. So, I believe recruit talented people, company technologies should be increase by Implementing new technology in production, collecting data about production, and communicating supply chains. 

Another main problem which is lack of time for recruitment can be solve by creating an employee pool in the industry. The benefit of the employee pool helps build their professional in different categories and ensures they work on interesting.  

When we consider the work place environment in Rice mill industry, actually it is not a friendly environment for labours since it makes dust, smoke, bad smells and high temperature. The only solution for this problem is minimize those bad effects by using new technologies, so we can minimize using man power in bad environment.  

Also by implementing short time working hours, Generating infrastructure facility in difficult area, offering life insurance facility for labours and rewarding the labours can be reduce challenges in recruitment. 

To Improve Rice Mill Industry for the Global Market

  

Milling and quality improvement in rice

With the implementation of the market economy, consumers are increasingly demanding quality products. Therefore, like most countries, Sri Lanka is increasingly important for improving the quality of rice. From the above, there is an urgent need to reduce the production cost of rice and improve the quality of rice produced locally. It can be carried out from the following three aspects. First, we must improve the quality of rice used for rice milling. Second, we must improve rice milling technology. Finally, we should run a rice grading system in the country.

 

Improve rice harvesting technology

Studies have shown that approximately 75% of the paddy coming in for milling is of poor quality, falling in to the category of Grade 3 or below of the Sri Lanka Standards for paddy with a high degree of moisture; foreign matter; immature and unfilled grains; damaged/discoloured grains; and type admixture. So, by improving harvesting technology we can make high quality paddy. Need the great participation from government to educate the farmers on this situation via farmers organizations