Basmati

Basmati rice
Brown short-grain rice (left) compared to brown basmati rice (right)
SpeciesOryza sativa[1]
Cultivar groupBasmati
CultivarBasmati Sal, Basmati 370[1]
OriginIndian subcontinent

Basmati (pronounced ['bɑːsmət̪iː]) is a variety of long, slender-grained aromatic rice which originates from the Indian subcontinent, mainly in the regions of Nepal, Punjab, Haryana, Sindh and many other states and provinces of India and Pakistan.[2] As of 2019, India accounted for 65% of the international trade in basmati rice, while Pakistan accounted for the remaining 35%.[3][4] Many countries use domestically grown basmati rice crops;[5] however, basmati is geographically exclusive to certain districts of India and Pakistan.[6]

According to the Indian Agricultural and Processed Food Products Export Development Authority (APEDA), a rice variety is eligible to be called basmati if it has a minimum average precooked milled rice length of 6.61 mm (0.260 in) and average precooked milled rice breadth of up to 2 mm (0.079 in), among other parameters.[7]

  1. ^ a b Kishor, DS; Seo, J; Chin, JH; Koh, HJ (2020). "Evaluation of Whole-Genome Sequence, Genetic Diversity, and Agronomic Traits of Basmati Rice (Oryza sativa L.)". Frontiers in Genetics. 11: 86. doi:10.3389/fgene.2020.00086. PMC 7046879. PMID 32153645.
  2. ^ Big money in "specialty rices" Food and Agriculture Organization, United Nations (2002)
  3. ^ "India Export Statistics". APEDA. Retrieved 11 July 2019.
  4. ^ "Pakistani rice: Second to all". Dawn. 8 April 2019. Retrieved 11 July 2019.
  5. ^ Rice Sales From India to Reach Record as Iran Boosts Reserve Archived 2017-05-21 at the Wayback Machine Bloomberg News (13 February 2014)
  6. ^ Madhya Pradesh loses GI tag claim for Basmati; India may ask Pakistan to check farming Archived 2019-07-11 at the Wayback Machine Financial Express (19 March 2018)
  7. ^ "Eligibility of a Rice Variety to be Notified as Basmati" (PDF). APEDA. Archived (PDF) from the original on 20 December 2019. Retrieved 2 February 2020.
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