Demo Traders (Pvt) Ltd
Paddy intake open Monday to Saturday, from 7am.

Paddy in. Rice out. Nothing in between you cannot see.

Buying paddy, milling yours, and selling rice since 1978.

About us

We are a working rice mill. Bring a lorry to the weighbridge and we will test the moisture, weigh it, and pay you for the payable weight after the deduction — the same figures you can read back later on your own phone. If you would rather keep your paddy, we will mill it for you and keep an agreed fee, in cash or in rice. Your paddy stays yours the whole time it is here.

What we do

We buy paddy

Bring your lorry to the weighbridge. We test the moisture, weigh it, and pay for what is payable after the deduction.

We mill yours

Custom milling. Your paddy stays yours; we keep an agreed fee in cash or in rice, and you take the rest home.

We sell rice

Head rice and broken, in bulk or in sacks, straight from the mill.

Today's rates

Nadu 95-105 / kg, Samba 110-120 / kg, at 14% moisture. Agreed at the gate.

A guide only. The rate for your lot depends on its variety and its moisture, and is agreed at the gate.

The mill

The paddy comes in from Polonnaruwa
The paddy comes in from Polonnaruwa
Every lorry crosses the bridge twice
Every lorry crosses the bridge twice
The mill house
The mill house
Head rice, bagged and ready
Head rice, bagged and ready
Loaded out the same week
Loaded out the same week

What farmers say

They weigh honest, and the money is in my hand the same day.

— K. Bandara, Medirigiriya

I bring my own paddy and take the rice back. The fee is agreed before the lorry is unloaded.

— H. Gunaratne

Twenty years my father sold here. The scale has never once surprised us.

— M. Wijesinghe

Reviews

★★★★☆

Busy at harvest time, but the queue moves.

— S. Perera
★★★★★

Fair deduction. They showed me the moisture reading.

— M. Wijesinghe
★★★★★

Weighed in front of me and paid before I left.

— K. Bandara

When we are open

Monday 07:00 — 18:00
Tuesday 07:00 — 18:00
Wednesday 07:00 — 18:00
Thursday 07:00 — 18:00
Friday 07:00 — 18:00
Saturday 07:00 — 18:00
Sunday Closed

Talk to us

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Where

Mile Post 4, Kaduruwela Road, Polonnaruwa

Phone

0272225478

Open

Monday to Saturday, 7am to 6pm

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