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Pandan Wangi
A bearded (bulu) javanica rice from Cianjur in West Java, grown there since 1973 and known for the pandan scent of the plant, the rice and the cooked grain. It was purified from the local population and released in 2004 as a local superior variety. Rice from seven sub-districts of Cianjur at 450–800 m is protected as the geographical indication Beras Pandanwangi Cianjur.
A rice tied to seven sub-districts
Pandan Wangi spread in Cianjur from 1973 because of its scent and the quality of its cooked rice, which can sell for about twice the price of ordinary rice. The local population was purified in 2001, and on 17 March 2004 decree 163/Kpts/LB.240/3/2004 released it as a local superior variety under the name "Pandan Wangi". The release description gives a crop of 150–165 days, plants 150–170 cm tall, round, plump grains with a 1,000-grain weight of 300 g, 24.9 % amylose and a yield potential of 6–7 t/ha.
The plant needs fertile, well-watered paddies at 450–800 m, so the regency names seven sub-districts where it grows well: Warungkondang and parts of Gekbrong, Cugenang, Cianjur, Cilaku, Cibeber and Campaka. Only rice from these areas may carry the geographical indication; the regency's 2024 study records the certificate as ID G 000000034 and dates it to 2018. The same study reports that planting has declined since 2000, that adulterated and fake Pandan Wangi rice circulates, and that the regency set up a growers' community, Masyarakat Pelestari Padi Pandanwangi Cianjur (MP3C).