The study examined the energy used for milling rice in Lafia rice mill. A sample of 50
randomly selected rice mills were used for the study. Simple descriptive statistics,
production function analysis and correlation analysis were used for data analysis. The result
shows that the average total energy used daily for rice milling was 2427.44MJ/mill with
diesel energy having the largest share (54.66%) of the average total daily energy used.
Furthermore, to mill a bag of paddy about 211.06MJ of energy was required. The energy
productivity was 0.37MJ/mill. Diesel and paddy were the most significant inputs that
influenced the output of milled rice. The elasticity value range from 0.19 to 7.37 for paddy
and diesel respectively. Rice milling in the research area was observed to be dependent on
direct and non renewable energy forms especially diesel. The study recommends
development of cleaner and safer energy forms such as solar energy for rice milling in the
study area