TRADITIONAL RICE VARITIES OF TAMILNADU AND ITS HEALTH BENIFITS

Tamilnadu is famous for its rich cultural heritage from time immemorial. Ancient forefathers of ours gave immense importance to arts, culture, science, food and health. In particular tamil farmers are traditionally rich in their agriculture knowledge, organic farming and cropping techniques. But from the colonial era ancient tamil traditional treasures had slowly lost only by one and the most important of them all is that we slowly forget our traditional food varities.In this article i made a small attempt in creating awareness of the traditional rice   varities of tamilnadu and its rich nutritious and health significance.In totally there were more than 10000 varities of rice in ancient tamilnadu. But as of now only 63 of the traditional varities of rice are in use and only 19 of them are prominent among the farmers.We can look into the insights on some of the most important traditional rice varieties one by one. 1. KAATUYAANAM   RICE ü The grain in the field grows more