Description
Safe Harvest rice comes from the Sona Masuri BPT 5204 variety of paddy cultivated by small and marginal farmers practicing chemical pesticide free agriculture in the Krishna irrigated region of the Raichur district in Karnataka. These farmers adopt the System of Rice Intensification (SRI) technique, which greatly reduces the water footprint of the crop. The paddy is stringently tested for quality parameters like moisture content and percentage of broken rice. The procured paddy is then aged for 12 months to further reduce the moisture content before it is milled into rice. Carefully curated ageing ensures that the rice has an optimum level of moisture translating into a higher yield of the cooked product.
