This research is to study on the effects of paddy dried by far-infrared radiation in combination with hot–air fluidization technique, which is compared with only hot–air fiuidization technique. The paddy of Supanburi 1 was conducted in the experiment. The procedure of the experiment is as follows the paddy with initial moisture content of 31.87 % d.b. is dried in the fluidized bed using hot air with temperature of 120, 140 and 160 °C, an air velocity of 4.65 m /s and the bed hieight of 10 cm until the final moisture content was 18-20 % d.b. the experimental results found that drying time of the paddy dried by far-infrared radiation in combination with hot-air fluidization was shorter because of an increase in the far-infrared radiation and hot-air fluidization temperature. The optimum condition for paddy dried using combined far-infrared radiation and hot-air fluidization was the use of an air velocity of 4.65 m /s, temperature of160 OC until the pinal moisture content of 18.01 % d.b. and drying time of 2 minutes. The specific energy consumption of evaporation was 2.588 MJ/kgevap