Rice cream out of rice flour

Nimal Wijesinghe- Anuradhapura Additional District group corr

The country has not only gained self sufficiency in rice and maize but also is exporting rice, due to the far-sighted agriculture development policies of the government.

Rice cream cones

The government is encouraging the people to consume more rice and rice based food instead of wheat flour based products.

The Anuradhapura Post Harvest Technology Institute has introduced a range of rice flour based food and beverages parallel to the boom in rice production.

Anuradhapura District Secretary Mahinda Seneviratne introduced 'rice cream' an alternative to milk ice cream and soya ice cream at a District Agriculture Committee meeting recently.

A team of researchers headed by Research Officer Hemanthika Jayawardane succeeded in making the product.

Hemanthika said successful results were achieved by introducing 'rice cream' under a research programme to innovate a range of desserts produced out of rice flour.

Many countries have introduced ice cream varieties manufactured by using ingredients such as soya milk instead of cows' milk. 'Rice cream' will replace most popular soya milk ice cream.

This trend will help increase paddy production and create durable marketing value to paddy.