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Matta rice gives Kerala farmers a premium of Indian Rs. 300 for 500 kg of paddy. A three-year ban on the export of matta rice was partially lifted in February 2011, allowing 25,000 tonnes to be exported in 2011. [4] Palakkadan matta rice is cultivated in the dense black cotton soil of Palakkad district in Kerala. The rice has a distinct earthly ...
The following is a list of countries by paddy rice exports. Data is for 2022 as reported in Food and Agriculture Organization Corporate Statistical Database . [ 1 ] Rice is one of the biggest crops in the international grain trade , alongside other crops like wheat , maize (corn) and soybean .
Red yeast rice, white rice fermented with a red mold, used in East Asian cuisine and Chinese traditional medicine, with anti-cholesterol properties. Some of the Asian liquors known as arrack are made by fermentation of red rice. [6] Matta rice mostly used in Kerala and in Dakshina Kannada and Udupi district of Karnataka state, India.
I dont think rosematta rice is such a well known name. Both Kerala matta rice and palakkadan matta rice are more popular than rosematta. I propose a name change for this article. Incase no one opposes, I will soon change the name to Kerala Matta rice. Sasank Sleeper 08:19, 16 January 2010 (UTC)
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Dumpie [340 ml, 11.98 Imp. fl. oz.]: A short-necked recyclable beer-bottle with a rounded body; the word is a nickname for a person who is short and fat. It used to be 12 Imperial ounces [341 ml] (3/5 of an Imperial pint), like the Canadian "stumpy" beer bottles. It was rounded down to 340 ml when South Africa converted to the metric system in ...
The Africa Rice Center (AfricaRice), formerly known as the West Africa Rice Development Association (WARDA), is a pan-African intergovernmental association and a CGIAR Research organization, currently headquartered in Abidjan, Côte d'Ivoire. [1] AfricaRice is an agricultural research center that was constituted in 1971 by 11 West African ...
New Rice for Africa (NERICA) is a cultivar group of interspecific hybrid rice developed by the Africa Rice Center to improve the yield of African rice cultivars. Although 240 million people in West Africa rely on rice as the primary source of food energy and protein in their diet, the majority of this rice is imported.