Lakshmi Srinivasa Raw Boiled Rice Mill

The mill is located at Dr.No.55-102 on Inamadugu Road, out in Kovur. Being in the Ellur Mandel area, we are surrounded by a lot of greenery and fields, but inside our gates, it is all about the rice. It is a loud place when the machines are running, and there is always a fine layer of white dust on everything, no matter how much we sweep the floors. We handle both raw and boiled rice here, so the smell changes depending on what we are processing that day. The trucks come in through the main gate on Inamadugu Road and wait in line to unload their heavy bags. It can get pretty chaotic during the harvest season when everyone is in a hurry and the sun is beating down on the yard. We don't have a big corporate team, just a group of us who know how to run the boilers and keep the husking machines from jamming up. Sometimes we have to stay late into the night if a machine breaks down or if there is a big order that needs to get out by the next morning. The office is just a small room with a noisy fan and a couple of wooden chairs where we keep the paper ledgers. It is not a glamorous job, and it is always hot inside the mill, but it is what we do. We have been part of this community for years, and most people around Kovur know the sound of our engines.