In an instant, those feeding their babies stopped, while the ones eating hastened up. Others engaged in other chores outside shelved them and the dusty engine room once again became lively.
From Wukari to Tsukundi, Rafin Kada, Donga Suntai and other villagers, farmers in Taraba work the whole year to contribute to national production. At different rice milling firms in Wukari, the process takes a minimum of five days, sometimes weeks, and several stages of labour to process rice. Mrs Rahila would not divulge how much an unprocessed rice cost but says the quality determines the price. Her work comes with its challenges.
“We normally push the stored rice with cart and we wash it. Once it’s dry, we pack it back,” says Caleb. “After they bring the rice, we will wash, remove the chaffs and then transfer to this drum for parboil. We will put it inside hot water for one day. On the second day, we will remove it and put inside another water for few time. After that we’ll now remove it and spread on the ground.”
Like the Simon brothers, the trio complained of heat and back pain. Workers in Wukari rice mill seem to be totally oblivious of the provision of the Child Right Act.Already domesticated in Taraba, the Act in section 28 prohibits exploitative labour, or works which require “in any case, to lift, carry or move anything so heavy as to be likely to adversely affect his physical, mental, spiritual, moral or social development.
“The engine is just like human being. If you haven’t bath and you start the engine it will not work. It is a tradition. While Mr Saad and others continue to work with the huller, some women armed with trays await the proceeds of the engine. They are called rice filterers, the custodians of the eight stage.The rice huller crushes the husks, separating the grains from the chaffs. However, some of the crushed chaff escape with the grains. The filterers use their skills to separate the grains from the husks.
For the rice payment, the filterers are not given clean rice. Filtering has about two or three stages depending on how well the engine separates the grains from the husks. After the first filtering in trays, some grains escape with the husks. This portion is what goes for the payment for filterers.Once this stage is completed, the rice owner pays N30 for bagging and another N50 for transportation, to complete the milling process.
So this is a special report.infact all these media outfits have serious issues
There’s rice in Kano
People won't mastubate here until BBC makes same report
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