Black Scented Rice (Oryza sativa Linnaeus) locally known as Chak-Hao amubi/Chak-Hao Poireiton is now confined to serving only as delicacy in local feast and festivities. Till very late, the black rice is not cultivated commercially as the same cannot be used as staple food thereby resulting to limited market acess. But now having realised the inherent unique properties, a good scope for commercial cultivation and value addition of its products for a profitable agro-business have been envisioned. The area under cultivation of Black Rice is comparatively very low, approximately it ranges 60-70 ha only till last Kharif 2015. Even though the yield of Chak-Hao is vey low as compared to HYV Rice, it is still more profitable in term of economic returns as evident from the analysis report detailed below.
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