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n.a., Not applicable.Source: C. Peter Timmer, "Choice of Technique in Rice Milling on Java," Bulletin of Indonesian EconomicStudies, vol. 9, no. 2 (July 1973); reprinted as a Research and Training Network Reprint (New York: AgriculturalDevelopment Council, Inc., September 1974), p. 6.a. The s in parentheses indicates that the facility uses sun drying; m indicates mechanical drying.b. Milling capacity is measured in metric tons of rough rice input yearly, assuming the facility can operate2,400 hours in a year.c. The technical and cost data for the small rice mill relate specifically to a locally manufactured huskerof the "flash" kind with an input capacity of three-quarters of a ton per hour, which is linked to a polisherof the Engelberg kind with an input capacity of half a ton per hour. A thresher shed and sun-drying padare provided, but no additional storage capacity. This facility is taken as representative of the entire rangeof small rice-milling facilities.d. The mechanical and cost data for the large rice mill relate specifically to a Japanese self-contained millingunit integrated with storage capacity for 756 tons of rough rice, 360 tons of bagged rice, and 456tons of bulk rice in upright steel bins. A mechanical dryer with a capacity of three-quarters of a ton perhour is provided along with a sun-drying pad. The milling capacity is 1.0 to 1.1 tons of rough rice per hour.e. Costs of building and machinery (including a diesel-powered thresher), but not land, are included. In1972, US$1 = Rp413.f. This assumes that one worker hand pounds about 150 kilograms of gabah (rough rice) daily, with ayield of approximately 95 kilograms of rice.g. Value added is calculated assuming a gabah cost of 18 rupiahs per kilogram, which is above the floorprice of 16 rupiahs per kilogram for "village dry" gabah at the mill. The cost (and value added) of reducingthe moisture to "mill dry" gabah is included as a mill activity.