Kaipad Rice

Kaipad rice is natural-organic rice produced in the saline prone sea coastal rice tract of North Kerala falling in Kozhikode, Kannur and Kasargod districts of Kerala. The cooking quality of Kaipad rice is excellent and the cooked rice is very tasty. The nutritive value of Kaipad rice is very good with iron, calcium, potassium and magnesium. There is a practice of having gruel of Kaipad rice during illness for speedy recovery which speaks of its medicinal value.Rice farming is carried out in a peculiar way in Kaipad, purely in a natural way relying on the monsoon and the sea tides. A single-crop of rice is cultivated on mounds in a low to medium saline phase of production cycle during June to October. The crop is ready for harvest by the end of September to mid of October. The peculiarity of Kaipad ecosystem is that there is no pest and diseases incidences in the natural field of conditions. The Parboiled rice is consumed by farmers and sold in the local market. Rice flakes from Kaipad rice tracts obtain 40% more price than other from other rice.