A very good article from Express on "Rice Fortification". The article is self explanatory but would like to clarify certain points.
1) Normal rice floor is mixed with micronutrients (iron, folic acid and vitamin B-12) and water is added to this mixture and then it is solidified and converted into rice kernels (nuts) by an "Extruder machine". These Fortified Rice Kernels (FRK) look very similar to the normal rice and are blended (simple mixing) with normal rice in the ratio of 10 gm FRK with 1 Kg normal rice.
2) The rice millers which will produce fortified rice, Govt. will provide them Rs. 0.6 per kg (which is basically the cost of producing fortified rice) and this cost will be shared by Centre and States. (Actually Govt. procures
paddy from the farmers under MSP and then it is given to Mills for conversion to
rice which is then distributed through various schemes. So, Govt. was already providing for the milling cost to the millers and now it will provide for the fortification also to the rice millers)
