Long-Grain White Rice

5%, 15% and 25% broken — the volume milling grade

CBIL brokers milled long-grain white rice — the workhorse grade of the world rice trade — at 5%, 15% and 25% broken, from Indian, Thai and Vietnamese mills. Broken percentage is the headline number and the price driver, but it is not the only one that decides whether a container is accepted: moisture ≤ 14%, chalky grains ≤ 5%, damaged and discoloured ≤ 2%, and purity ≥ 99% do the rest of the work. Chalk in particular is the specification buyers under-read — chalky kernels are structurally weak, they break in milling and handling, and a lot with high chalk quietly drifts above its contracted broken percentage by the time it reaches you. Average grain length runs 6.2–7.0 mm depending on variety and origin, and we declare crop year on every lot because carry-over stock mills and cooks differently from current crop.

A buyer picks long-grain white over its siblings when cost per served portion is the decision and neither aroma nor cooking tolerance is being paid for: retail packing at price points, catering, institutional and canteen supply, and re-export blending. It cooks quickly, looks bright and white, and prices well below Basmati and modestly below parboiled. What it will not do is survive being held hot for hours without softening — a volume kitchen serving over a long window is better served by parboiled — and it carries none of the aroma or cooked elongation that makes Basmati worth its premium. Supply is arranged in 25 kg and 50 kg PP bags, container-load, with SGS grading, fumigation and phytosanitary certification, on FOB, CFR and CIF terms.