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Intake & moisture check
Every truck load is weighed and sampled. Moisture above safe limits is dried down before storage — high-moisture millet moulds, loses colour and fails buyer inspection.
Guide
Millet processing, stage by stage.
How raw bajra becomes a graded, colour-sorted, buyer-ready lot inside a working processing unit — written from our floors in Yadgir, Karnataka, where the group processes close to 700 tonnes a month.
02
Pre-cleaning
Aspiration and scalper sieves pull out straw, dust, chaff, immature light grain and crop residue. This is the stage that decides how clean the finished lot can ever be.
03
De-stoning
Gravity de-stoners separate stones, mud balls and metal-free heavy foreign matter by density difference. Critical for bajra, which is harvested close to the ground.
04
Size grading
Graded sieve decks split the lot into uniform size fractions. Uniform grain cooks evenly and commands a premium; undersize fractions are diverted to feed and byproduct streams.
05
Colour sorting
Optical colour sorters scan the flowing grain stream and eject discoloured, immature, black-tip and damaged kernels with air jets — thousands of decisions per second.
06
Packing & dispatch
Finished lots are bagged in 25/50 kg or jumbo bags, lot-marked for traceability and dispatched to Vashi, Chennai, Hyderabad, Ahmedabad and other mandis.
Grading, quality and price
Size and colour are not cosmetic. Buyers in Vashi, Chennai and Hyderabad price a lot on how uniform it looks and how little foreign matter it carries. A tighter size band and a cleaner colour profile move the same harvest into a higher price bracket — which is why our sorting and grading machinery sits at the centre of every line.
See the products we gradeCommon questions
What does a millet processing unit actually do?
It converts farm-run bajra or other millets into a clean, uniform, buyer-ready lot: cleaning out impurities, removing stones, grading by size and sorting by colour, then packing to a fixed specification.
Why is colour sorting used for bajra?
Bajra naturally contains discoloured and immature grains that lower the visual grade. Optical sorting removes them without touching the good grain, which directly raises the realised price per quintal.
Does processing change the nutrition of millets?
Cleaning, grading and sorting are mechanical — they remove foreign matter and defective grain, not nutrients. Whole millet keeps its fibre, protein and mineral profile.
What byproducts come out of millet and grain processing?
Undersize and broken fractions, husk and bran streams. At our group these move into feed and industrial channels rather than being discarded.