Dehradun Basmati Rice

Features of this variety of rice are as follows :

• Uttarakhand is famous for Premium Basmati rice which is locally grown & we are proud be part  of this place as here we also have one of our business unit .
• Dehradun city(Capital of uttarakhand state of india) is also called the mecca of basmati rice,and we have got this delicious rice specially for our Royal Flavour valuing customers.
  
• Dehradooni Basmati is a speciality of Doon Valley.
• This is declared as a variety of Basmati Rice under the Seeds Act, 1966.
• Although several aromatic varieties rice are grown and consumed by the farmers of Doon valley but no other varieties of basmati has able to attain the status of Dehradooni Basmati.
• It is highly priced and delicious, in spite of its small grain size.
• It takes 125-135 days to mature.
• Its average yield is about 3000-3500 kg/hectare.

The European chronicler Jean Baptiste Travernier has written: "All the rice grown in this country possesses a particular quality causing it to be much esteemed. Its grains are half as small as that of common rice, and when it is cooked snow is not whiter than itis, besides which, it smells like musk and all the nobles of India eatno other. When you wish to make an acceptable present to anyone in Persia, you take him a sack of this rice".