Usefulness of Rice Plant

The straw is used as fuel, as bedding for animals, can be made into rope, handicrafts, shoes, toys, paper and even bricks.

The grain is cooked and eaten every day. it is also made into crackers, cereals, flour, milk, processed into feed for animals, cosmetics and formented into wine, beer and vinegar.

The bran is boiled for oil to make soap and cosmetics and added to food for fibre and nutrition. It is also fed to chickens.

The hulls are used as packing material to protect delicate cargo, packed around ice as insulation and burned in simple stoves.

Ash from the hulls is sometimes used to clean teeth, and turned into cellulose products such as rayon and rice fuel.