ADAN RICE Adan Rice is the finest rice from the highlands in the Heart of Borneo. It comes in three different varieties: White, Red and Black. This rice is from the famous for its grain with fine and Highland in the unique texture, pleasant taste and Heart of sweet fragrance BORNEO (black variety). ADAN RICE Highland in the Heart of fromBORNEO the The Adan rice is a local variety from the Highlands of Borneo but its fame has already reached the world. This rice variety is cultivated by the indigenous peoples in the Heart of Borneo: Lun Bawang in Ba Kelalan, Long Semadoh, Kelabit in Bario (north- east of Sarawak), Lun Dayeh in Long Pasia (Sabah), Lun Dayeh and Sa’ban in Krayan (East Kalimantan, Indonesia). day remain cool. Each family It has the finest grain and taste cultivates one-to-five hectares due to the elevation and the of rice fields traditionally which clear, unpolluted waters that means the cultivation is rather irrigate the rice fields. The Adan labor intensive. The fresh and rice is cultivated according clear water from the mountain to traditional and organic streams is channeled by bamboo practices by the farmers of the pipes or earth canals into the Highlands both in Sarawak and fields. Buffaloes are not used Krayan (Kalimantan). The high for ploughing but are let loose carbohydrate (white variety) and into the rice fields after harvest mineral content (black variety) to trample the earth, eat the of the Adan rice make it for its weeds and fertilize the soil in the excellent nutritional value. process, so that the rice fields are ready for the next planting This rice is the most popular and season. Nurseries with the rice significant agricultural product seedlings are prepared in July from the highlands of the Heart and shortly after planted. Harvest of Borneo. Over the centuries, season begins in late December local people have transformed through February. Adan Rice the bottom of the wide valleys takes about six months to mature among the mountains into wet- and only one crop is planted per rice fields. Located at an altitude year. between 760 meters and 1,200 meters, temperatures during the .