IR64 Rice

The global non-aromatic benchmark — raw & parboiled

IR64 is the closest thing the non-aromatic rice trade has to a common language. Bred at IRRI and grown across India, Vietnam and South-East Asia, it is a long grain of 6.2–6.6 mm milled, non-aromatic, with good head-rice yield and predictable cooking behaviour — and because the specification is understood identically in Lagos, Jeddah and Manila, "IR64 5% broken" functions as contract shorthand in a way few variety names do. It moves in raw white and parboiled form at 5% and 25% broken principally, with moisture ≤ 14%, chalky grains ≤ 5%, damaged and discoloured ≤ 2% and purity ≥ 95%. Crop year is worth declaring: carry-over IR64 mills and cooks differently from current crop, and it is frequently the cheaper offer for exactly that reason.

Buy IR64 when you want a widely accepted specification with deep liquidity across multiple origins rather than a differentiated product — retail packing at price points, catering and institutional supply, government and relief tenders where the tender document itself often names IR64, and re-export blending. Its commercial strength is precisely that it is not special: multiple origins quote it, so you are rarely captive to one mill or one country's export policy, and India's periodic non-basmati export restrictions are much easier to work around on IR64 than on a variety with a single source. What it will not do is carry aroma or cooked grain length — for that the basmati group is the answer, and for a longer non-basmati grain PK-386 or the PR varieties sit above it. Supply is arranged in 25 kg and 50 kg PP bags, container-load and bulk, with SGS grading, fumigation and phytosanitary certification, on FOB, CFR and CIF terms.

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Excluded origins are not offered, including product re-exported, blended or re-processed through a third country. Every lot moves with a certificate of origin naming the producing plant, mine or grower country, and nothing is quoted before the seller and loading point are known.