How to store wheat at home: Some people store wheat at home, so that they can get the wheat ground in the mill and eat it by making roti. It is also healthy because it is not refined. Many times, due to not storing wheat properly, it gets infested with moisture, weevil and insects. Try some of the hacks mentioned here to store wheat at home, wheat will not spoil for years.

How to preserve wheat at Home: Most people avoid eating wheat flour available in the market. Many times, the flour available in the open is also adulterated. Being refined, it lacks bran, which is not good for the digestive system. Even today, most of the people living in villages and small towns buy wheat and keep it at home and get it ground in front of their eyes and eat roti made from pure flour. The flour ground in the mill is unrefined, so the bran and other nutrients remain intact in it. Many times people buy wheat and keep it at home, but during the rainy season or due to excessive heat, it gets infested with weevils and insects. Due to this, it has to be thrown away. If you are a farmer and are storing it at home after harvesting wheat, then keep some things in mind-

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– Once the wheat gets infested with weevils, they eat all the grains and make them hollow and brittle, which you can neither sell after grinding nor use for eating yourself. All your money and hard work can go waste. To protect wheat from weevils, it is important for you to know the way to store it.

– If you buy 6-7 kg of wheat from the market and keep it so that you can get it ground in the mill and eat rotis made from its flour, then to prevent it from spoiling, keep it in the sun two-three times a week. This will prevent dampness and every grain of wheat will remain dry and hard.

- Keep the wheat tied properly in a sack. Even today, grains are stored in large earthen pots in villages. If you keep it in a container, then put neem leaves, cloves, camphor, matchsticks etc. in it. This will prevent weevils and insects from attacking the wheat. The smell of these things is strong, due to which insects do not attack the grains quickly.

- If you keep the wheat in a sack, then do not keep it directly on the floor. Place a brick or any wood under the sack so that if there is water or moisture on the floor by mistake, the wheat does not get wet. Grains can get spoiled due to moisture. Keep the sacks on a platform or something 5-10 inches high.

- Always keep the wheat in a clean and new sack. Keeping it in used sacks can spoil the grains. If you want, you can use it after washing and drying it thoroughly, so that even a single weevil or insect is inside it, it gets removed.

- If you feel that there is moisture in the wheat, then do not make the mistake of keeping it in a sack or any container without drying it thoroughly in the sun. This can cause fungus in it. All your grains can get spoiled. Take special care of this during the rains, because wheat, pulses, rice get moisture quickly.

- Before keeping wheat in any box, drum, plastic pot, earthen pot, sack, put a lot of dry neem leaves at the bottom. This will also prevent weevils. Putting cloves, camphor, matchsticks also ensures that no grain gets spoiled quickly.

- Do not mix the leftover old wheat with new fresh wheat, otherwise it can get spoiled quickly. Always keep new crops and grains separately in fresh sacks, dry containers etc.