Traditional process of husking rice from Alikadam, Bandarban, Bangladesh The staple food of Tribal people in Chittagong Hill Tracts, Bangladesh is rice. The rice commonly found here does not undergo any mechanical processing. It is husked from fresh paddy to separate the rice from the hull. Most of the Tribal people in Chittagong Hill Tracts farmers do the husking manually and it is done with the help of mortar and pestle method. The paddy rice is filled in the mortar and pounded until the hulls are separated from the rice. The process is repeated until the desired quality is reached. Then the rice is poured into a separate container and winnowed to separate the hulls for the grains. This entire process is called rice husking.