The Journey of Rice

Before that hot, steamy rice appears before you in a plate or bowl, its journey is a long and tiresome one. Let’s take a dive!

Here on Rai Anantachin, we grow rice to observe and maintain it throughout its journey.

The first step in the long journey of obtaining the rice you know, love and consume in large amounts is planting the crops into soil submerged in water. The crops are generally planted in a rectangular or square shaped field, each sprout placed around 0.5-1 feet away from one another. When planting, the bottom of the sprout should be grabbed and firmly placed into the mud until your hand is submerged into the water.

Approximately 4 months later, the rice is ready for harvest. Using a sickle, the crops are collected for the next stage of preparing the rice. The rice should be sliced near the bottom with the sickle. When harvesting, adopting a rotating motion with the sickle will more effectively utilize the sharp, concave edge rather than just pulling.

The rice grains are then separated from the crop by hitting the crop against a wooden plank. From there, the grains’s harder outer shells are removed and the grains are ready to cook!