K.G. Rice & General Mills

If you head down Mour Road in Mandi Kalan, you will see us there. K.G. Rice & General Mills has been sitting on this plot for quite a while now. We handle rice mostly but we do other milling too when people ask for it. The building is a bit grey and the yard is usually full of empty bags or stacks of wood for the furnace. It’s a messy business sometimes, especially when the husks start flying around in the wind. We have a couple of dogs that hang around the gate to keep an eye on things at night. Mandi Kalan is a small enough place that we know most of our neighbors by their first names. We don't spend money on fancy signs or shiny trucks. We just use what we have and try to keep the machinery in good shape so it doesn't fail us. It gets really cold in the winter mornings when we start the first shift. We usually have some tea together before the noise of the mills takes over for the rest of the day. Sometimes the orders are late or the trucks break down, but we just deal with it as it comes. It's just a regular mill on a regular road. We don't try to be anything else. We’ve been here long enough that it feels like home to most of us who work here.