Agro-morphological and Physico-chemical Characterization of Indigenous Scented Lal Badshabhog Rice of West Bengal, India

The agro-morphological and physico-chemical characterization of traditional aromatic Lal Badshabhog rice landrace was done at BCKV, Kalyani, Nadia, West Bengal, India during kharif season of 2012, 2013 and 2014. The variety had long-statured plants (scale 7, 140–150 cm height) and late maturity (scale 7, 130–138 days). The lemma and palea of matured grain was brownish-red in colour, while sterile lemma was red and the awnless grains were short in length (5.98 mm) with very low test weight (10.6 g). The white-coloured kernels belonged to short-bold group (length 3.80 mm and width 1.87 mm), which had low amylose content (18.1%), medium alkali value (score 3.3) and medium aroma (score 2.1).