R. K. Overseas Rice Mills

We’ve been here at G.T. Road in Suranassi for quite a while now. Running R. K. Overseas Rice Mills takes up most of our day. It’s a lot of work with the paddy coming in and the machines going all the time. You can hear the noise from the road sometimes. We mostly just focus on getting the rice cleaned and packed up. It gets dusty in the mill, especially when things are busy during the season. We have a small team here. Most of us live nearby. It’s not fancy, just a regular place where we work hard. The trucks come and go on the main road, which makes it easy for transport. Sometimes the electricity goes out and we have to wait, but that’s just how it is. We keep the floors as clean as we can, but it’s a mill, so there’s always some husk around. Suranassi is a good spot for us. We know the neighbors. We don’t spend much time in an office; we are usually out where the bags are being stacked. It’s physical work. Lifting the sacks gets tiring by the evening. We just try to do a solid job every day and get home to our families. There isn’t much to say other than we work with rice and we’ve been at this address for years. It’s what we know. The sun comes in through the high windows and we just keep at it.