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Pusa Basmati 1121

An extra-long-grain Basmati bred at the Indian Agricultural Research Institute and released in 2003, known for exceptional lengthening on cooking; it came to cover about 70 % of India's Basmati area.

Pusa Basmati 1121 — editorial grain study, polished, not to scale. Appearance alone does not establish variety or protected origin.

Length before and after the pot

The cultivar's reputation rests on what happens in cooking. The IARI breeders report milled kernels of 8–9 mm (their own paper gives 9.00 mm in the abstract and 8.00 mm in its comparison table, the figure used here) that reach about 21.5 mm when cooked, against 13.4 mm for Basmati 370. Amylose is intermediate at 22 %.

Released in 2003 and notified for Punjab and Haryana in 2008, it spread fast: by 2015 it occupied about 70 % of a Basmati area that had grown from 0.78 to 2.12 million hectares, and in 2013–14 it earned about US$3.4 billion of India's US$4.9 billion Basmati exports.

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