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r determines the taste of rice by detecting the amount of starches, proteins, degree of fat acidication, and moisture content of milled rice. near-infrared analyzer is used for the quantitative assessment. The rice taste analyzer that is commonlyused in Japan is shown in Fig. 2. 4 CONCLUSION Quality standards for milled rice will continue to be improved. In addition, customers in the near future will demand more than merely rice with specic appearance. Futuremilling systems may also require the capability to control, to one degree or another, suchcharacteristics as water absorption rate, surface texture, and protein content. Because ofthis, rice mills will continually have to adopt advanced milling technology. In such an environment, it will be their knowledge of rice-milling technology that separates one company from another. Rice mill management will have to be familiar, to an increasingly greater degree, with the technological advancements that are being offeredto the industry. REFERENCES 1. Satake (. Modern Rice-Milling Technology. University of Tokyo Press, Tokyo. 2. Bond (. Presentation to the Satake USA Milling College. 3. Kanemoto (. Research on Rice Milling and Process Technologies. Dehulling and Splitting Pulses SHAHAB SOKHANSANJ University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada RHAMBO . PATIL Central Institute for Agricultural Engineering, Bhopal, India 1 INTRODUCTION Pulses are part of the legumes, family of plants that have the unique characteristic of hosting symbiotic bacteria that atmospheric nitrogen in the plant roots. This not onlyreduces fertilizer requirements, but also improves soil structure. Pulses provide green pods for vegetables and nutritious fodder for cattle because they are rich in protein and in the essential amino acid lysine . Dry pulses are also major food staple of populations in India, the Middle East, Africa, and South America. The response to diversication of agriculture from conventional crops to puls