Banshpata

Farmers select rice varieties for cultivation at the start of each season; each grain has one or more distinctive properties – size, shape, color, cooking quality, fragrance, taste and traditional use. West Bengal has many aromatic heritage rice variants, one of them being Banshpata. It is popular with farmers in the Medinipore and Nadia districts of West Bengal. This long grain has diversified end-uses like : everyday table rice, special dayrice (biriyani, pulao), dessert (payesh) or even for fragrant sweets (JaynagarerMoa).

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