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| Basmati rice | |
|---|---|
 Brown short-grain rice (left) compared to brown basmati rice (right) | |
| Species | Oryza sativa[1] |
| Cultivar group | Basmati |
| Cultivar | Basmati Sal, Basmati 370[1] |
| Origin |  India |
Basmati (pronounced ['bɑːsmət̪iː]) is a variety of long, slender-grained aromatic rice which originates in India, and is traditionally also grown in the rest of the Indian subcontinent, mainly in the bordering regions of Pakistani Punjab, Sri Lanka and Nepal.[2] As of 2019[update], 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]
- ^ 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.
- ^ Big money in "specialty rices" Food and Agriculture Organization, United Nations (2002)
- ^ "India Export Statistics". APEDA. Retrieved 11 July 2019.
- ^ "Pakistani rice: Second to all". Dawn. 8 April 2019. Retrieved 11 July 2019.
- ^ Rice Sales From India to Reach Record as Iran Boosts Reserve Archived 2017-05-21 at the Wayback Machine Bloomberg News (13 February 2014)
- ^ 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)
- ^ "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.