PORTUGUESE RICE CHAIN TASK FORCE FOR QUALITY
C.Brites1, J.Oliveira2, P.Marques3, M.O.Carvalho4, A.S.Almeida1, C.Silva1, F.Lavrador1, F.Vargues1, M.Fitzgerald5,6
1INIAV-
Instituto Nacional de Investigação Agrária e Veterinária, 2784-505 Oeiras, Portugal
2ERNESTO MORGADO SA, 3090-833 Barra, Portugal
3COTARROZ-Centro Operativo e Tecnológico do Arroz, 2120-014 Salvaterra de Magos, Portugal
4IICT- Instituto de Investigação Cientifica Tropical, 1301-901 Lisboa, Portugal
5School of Agriculture and Food Science, University of Queensland, Slip Rd, St Lucia, 4072, Qld, Australia
6IRRI, Coordinator of International Network for Rice Quality Group (INQR)
Scope and objectives
BEST-RICE-4-LIFE is a research project that aims to improve the competitiveness and
sustainability of the portuguese rice chain through:
 implementation of quickly and efficient methods for the germplasm selection for the
quality improvement in the national rice breeding program
 adopt best solutions for drying, storage and processing by correlating the quality data with
consumer preferences
 incentive the rice chain actors to participate in developing methods for quality assessment
by their involvement in the International Network for Quality Rice (INQR) and International
Standardization Committees (CEN TC338 and ISO-TC34-SC4)
BEST-RICE-4-LIFE, tasks and participant interactions
BEST-RICE-4-LIFE, chronogram
BEST-RICE-4-LIFE, 2013 results
Biometric distribution of paddy grain
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Means of husked vs paddy grain length
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