Zaccaria ZX-6 Small Farm Rice Mill Makes Sense

The Zaccaria ZX-6 rice milling machine is gaining a lot of attention from small farm rice farmers looking to diversify and get into the rice milling game.  To most of them, it just makes sense.  While not as large a significant investment as it’s bigger brother, the ZX-25 (capable of 1.5 tons per hour paddy input), the ZX-6 compact rice mill is far more attractive than it’s little brother, the ZX-3 (capable of 572 lbs per hour paddy input).  The ZX-6 rice mill is capable of 1,135 paddy rice input, which is almost twice the capacity of the ZX-3, but far less than double the cost.  The standard ZX-6 package includes:

1. An elevator and inlet hopper to feed the paddy cleaner
2. A paddy cleaner which removes large waste and small waste from your paddy before entering the mill
3. A permanent magnet to remove any metals in your product prior to entering the mill
4. An elevator to feed the husker
5. The ZX-6 milling machine, which will husk paddy rice, remove the outer brown layer (known as bran), and aspirate the husk to the husk cyclone.
6. A husk cyclone to handle your rice hulls from the husker
7. An elevator and inlet hopper to feed the indent (or length separator) to give you two separations of husked rice
8. The indent (or length separator) to separate your head rice from your broken kernels
9. An elevator to handle the head rice and brokens to go to whatever packaging line you decide to put in

While making brown rice is more suitable to the ZX-25, the ZX-6 produces beautiful white rice ready for packaging and distribution.  The capabilities are attractive, but so is the idea for a local farmer to mill his own rice and to gain an additional income by milling smaller lots of paddy rice from other local farmers in their area.  It is a great way to re-capture some of the capital invested in the mill itself and to offset the risk that some farmers see in taking a step into the unknown world of rice milling.  www.ZaccariaUSA.com