PURPOSE: To rapidly recover from a faulty rice hulling and sorting state by outputting control command signals so as to successively adjust plural adjusting means for correcting the faulty rice hulling and sorting state in compliance with prescribed priority order according to the on-operation of faulty switches.

CONSTITUTION: This controller automatically controls the plural adjusting motors 49 to 55 for changing and adjusting the faulty state in accordance with the fault detection information by plural sensors 24 to 32, 34 to 8 for detecting the rice hulling and sorting state of the rice hulling and sorting machine. As a result, the rice hulling and sorting operations are optimized. The plural faulty switches 41 to 46 which can be manually turned on in the faulty rice hulling and sorting state are disposed in such a case. The control command signals are outputted by an arithmetic control section 47 in such a manner that the plural adjusting motors 49 to 55 for correcting the faulty rice hulling and sorting state are successively adjusted in compliance with the prescribed priority order according to the on-operation of the fault switches 41 to 46. As a result, the rapid recovery from the faulty rice hulling and sorting state is attained.