Tohoku Agricultural Research Center operated by National Agriculture and Food Research Organization (TARC/NARO), based at Morioka city in Iwate prefecture, was recently successful in devising a simple method for preparing feedstuff of unhulled rice soft-grain-silage (SGS) to reduce working hours to less than half the existing method.
The Tohoku Agricultural Research Center, NARO, lately developed a simple method for preparing rice SGS feedstuff by directly wrapping the whole of a flexible bulk container bag. (Morioka city, Iwate prefecture)
It is a new method for preparing the rice SGS feed by wrapping the whole bulk bag, called a flexible container, of raw materials or feed rice grains. At a stage of wrapping the bulk container, procedures of deflating and sealing the container take a lot of time in an existing method, which works are not required in the new method. It will be also possible to keep the container out in the fields for a long time with high quality of feeds maintained.
Rice SGS is prepared as follows. Harvested grains of rice are first crushed by a large grinder, which are filled into a flexible container. After adding water with lactic acid bacteria in the container, a top of the container is tightly bound with a strap. And the bulk container is finally wrapped with packaging films by a wrapping machine.
Working hours necessary for preparing the rice SGS feed is less than half of the existing method.