Basmati rice, Cultivation Type :Common

Basmati Rice, a variety of long grain rice with a fine texture, is the world's best rice that one can use for cooking. Basmati rice means the "queen of fragrance" or the perfumed one. This type of rice has been grown in the foothills of the Himalayas for thousands of years. In India, Basmati rice is characterized by extra long, superfine slender grains having a length to breadth ratio of more than 3.5, sweet taste, soft texture, delicate curvature and an extra elongation with least breadth-wise swelling on cooking. This highly aromatic Basmati Rice is India's gift to the whole world.