Thai Parboiled Rice (100% Sortexed, 5% Broken)

Light-coloured, sortexed parboiled long grain for West Africa, the Gulf and South Africa

Thai parboiled rice (HS 1006.30) is paddy steamed and dried before milling, which drives nutrients into the kernel, hardens it, and gives a firm, separate cooked grain that survives long voyages and rough handling. The grade the trade asks for is Thai parboiled 100% sortexed, written STXD on offers, which has been through a colour sorter to remove discoloured kernels and is noticeably lighter than Indian parboiled; 5% broken is the volume grade behind it. South Africa and Iraq each took about one million tonnes of Thai rice in 2025 and the West African markets of Senegal, Angola, Benin, Côte d'Ivoire and Cameroon took several hundred thousand tonnes each, much of it parboiled and brokens, at declared values near USD 410 to 440 per tonne. The exporters' association targets 1.4 million tonnes of parboiled for 2026, and parboiled was one of the grades that grew in 2025 while white rice fell.

Thai parboiled 100% STXD was quoted near USD 445 per tonne FOB in 2026, about USD 30 above Thai white 5% and USD 60 to 90 above Indian parboiled, which is the usual spread: Thai product is lighter, more uniform and milled from a longer grain. A buyer chooses on the destination's expectation. South African and Gulf supermarkets price on colour and uniformity and take Thai; Nigerian and Beninese wholesalers price on landed cost and often take Indian. CBIL brokers Thai parboiled from exporter-millers against the Thai Standard for parboiled rice, with the Department of Foreign Trade inspection, SGS or Intertek sampling, fumigation and phytosanitary certificates, in 50 kg PP bags by the container and in bulk or breakbulk for 10,000 tonne programmes from Bangkok and Laem Chabang. An offer states the grade, the sortex pass, the crop year and the mill.

See also: Parboiled rice: the Indian grades and the process · Thai white rice 5% broken

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