{"id":257828,"date":"2023-08-29T19:08:10","date_gmt":"2023-08-29T13:38:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?p=257828"},"modified":"2023-08-29T19:08:10","modified_gmt":"2023-08-29T13:38:10","slug":"what-is-magic-rice-what-is-special-about-this-rice-that-it-got-gi-tag","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/what-is-magic-rice-what-is-special-about-this-rice-that-it-got-gi-tag\/","title":{"rendered":"What Is Magic Rice? What Is Special About This Rice That It Got GI Tag"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><b>Source: <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The post is based on the article <\/span><b>\u201cWhat Is Magic Rice? What Is Special About This Rice That It Got GI Tag\u201d\u00a0 <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">published in <\/span><b>TOI on 28th August 2023<\/b><\/p>\n<h2><b>What is the News?<\/b><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Chokuwa rice has received a GI (Geographical Indication) tag due to its exceptional quality and uniqueness.<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><b>What is Chokuwa Rice?<\/b><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Chokuwa rice is also known as Magic rice.It is grown in Assam.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It has a significant role in Assam&#8217;s culinary history and was a staple food for the Ahom dynasty.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Cultivated in:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> This healthy rice is mainly cultivated along the Brahmaputra River in places like Tinsukia, Dhemaji, and Dibrugarh.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Characteristics:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> Chokuwa rice is basically a semi-glutinous winter rice, known as Sali rice.The sticky and glutinous variety is categorized as Bora and Chokuwa based on their amylose concentration.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u2013 The low amylose Chokuwa rice variants are used to make soft rice, which is known as Komal Chaul or soft rice.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u2013 This whole grain can be consumed after soaking the rice in cold or lukewarm water.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u2013 This unique rice variety is consumed with curd, sugar, jaggery, bananas to name a few.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u2013 This rice is also used in making several Assamese delights like Pithe and other local dishes.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: The post is based on the article \u201cWhat Is Magic Rice? What Is Special About This Rice That It Got GI Tag\u201d\u00a0 published in TOI on 28th August 2023 What is the News? Chokuwa rice has received a GI (Geographical Indication) tag due to its exceptional quality and uniqueness. What is Chokuwa Rice? Chokuwa&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/what-is-magic-rice-what-is-special-about-this-rice-that-it-got-gi-tag\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">What Is Magic Rice? What Is Special About This Rice That It Got GI Tag<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10317,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1566,1738,7965,9],"tags":[10496],"class_list":["post-257828","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-factly-articles","category-science-and-technology-daily-factly-articles","category-miscellaneous-daily-factly-articles","category-public","tag-times-of-india","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/257828","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10317"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=257828"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/257828\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=257828"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=257828"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=257828"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}