Pakistani IRRI-9 Long Grain Rice Supplier for Importers and Food Service
Longer Than IRRI-6 at 6.8mm, Non-Basmati, White and Parboiled
Wholesale by the Container, or From Our Stock in Qatar
IRRI-9 Long Grain Rice is the Pakistani non-basmati long grain that buyers reach for when they want the length without paying for basmati. It runs 6.8mm against IRRI-6’s 6.0mm, cooks dry and separate, and carries no aroma at all, which is exactly what a caterer plating rice under a sauce wants. TEFT Global buys it, owns it and moves it: part loads out of Qatar stock, or a full container to your port with the freight paid, or to your door where we hold local clearance.
IRRI-9 Rice, Milled in Sindh and Punjab, Pakistan and Held in Qatar
TEFT Global buys IRRI-9 Long Grain Rice direct from milling groups across Sindh and Punjab, holds stock in Qatar and ships it by the container to buyers in the Gulf, East Africa, Southern Africa, Saudi Arabia, Iraq, South Asia and Southeast Asia. We are not an introduction service. We buy the rice, we own it, we ship it.
What IRRI-9 Long Grain Rice Is
A Non-Basmati Long Grain Grown in Sindh and Punjab, Pakistan.
IRRI-9 Long Grain Rice is a Pakistani non-basmati long grain white rice, bred from the IRRI line and grown across Sindh and Punjab. The milled grain averages 6.8mm, it is slender rather than bold, and it is double silky polished and colour sortexed before it is bagged. Cooked, it stays dry and separate and does not clump, which is why it holds up in a warming tray and in a large pot.
It is not aromatic, and any supplier telling you otherwise is describing a different grain. IRRI-9 has no scent of its own, and for most of the buyers who order it that is the point: a biryani, a jollof or a plate of rice under a curry is carrying its flavour from the pot, not from the grain, and an aromatic rice would fight it.
Where it sits commercially is between two grades you may already know. IRRI-6 long grain rice is shorter at 6.0mm and is the volume staple; PK-386 long grain rice sits above it on appearance and price. IRRI-9 gives you visible length at a non-basmati cost, and it is the grade to quote when a buyer wants his plate to look premium and his landed cost to stay flat. The full range sits in the rice catalogue.
The Three Forms of IRRI-9 Long Grain Rice
One Variety, Three Different Products in the Bag
The variety is one thing and the form is another. IRRI-9 Long Grain Rice is milled three ways, and a distributor in Mombasa and a caterer in Doha can order the same variety on the same morning and take delivery of two products that look nothing alike.
IRRI-9 White Rice
The standard mill: double silky polished, colour sortexed, bright white and 6.8mm. This is what moves in volume through wholesale and distribution, and it is the form held in Qatar stock at Al Wakra. Supplied at 5% broken as standard, with 10%, 15% and 25% to order.
IRRI-9 Sella Rice (Parboiled)
Steamed in the husk before milling, which hardens the grain and turns it pale gold. Sella IRRI-9 holds its shape through long holding and reheating and breaks far less in a big pot, which is why catering kitchens and institutional buyers ask for it by name.
IRRI-9 Brown Rice
Husked but not milled white, so the bran layer stays on and the grain reads tan rather than white. Brown IRRI-9 is supplied by arrangement rather than from stock, on a mill run booked against your order, and it cooks slower and keeps less well than the white.
Not Sure Which Form You Need?
Tell us the dish, the pot and how long the rice sits before it is served, and we will tell you which of the three IRRI-9 forms fits. If it is close we send samples of two so you can cook them side by side before a container is booked. Most buyers settle it in one cook.
How IRRI-9 Long Grain Rice Compares
Three Pakistani Long Grains, Three Different Jobs
IRRI-9 Long Grain Rice is quoted against two other Pakistani long grains, and the choice usually comes down to how much visible length the market expects and what it will pay for it.
IRRI-9, Long Grain Rice at 6.8mm
The length grade. IRRI-9 Long Grain Rice runs 6.8mm, slender, bright white and non-aromatic, and it is the one to quote where the plate has to look long-grained without a basmati invoice behind it. Sold white and as sella, 5% broken standard, and held in Qatar.
IRRI-6, Long Grain Rice at 6.0mm
The volume grade. IRRI-6 long grain rice is shorter and bolder at 6.0mm and lands cheaper per tonne, which is why it carries the big staple contracts across East Africa and West Africa. Where the buyer counts landed cost per kilo before anything else, quote IRRI-6.
PK-386, the Premium Long Grain
The appearance grade. PK-386 long grain rice sits above IRRI-9 on look and on price, and it is the step a retail brand takes before it moves to basmati. Where a printed retail bag has to hold its own on a crowded supermarket shelf, PK-386 is usually the answer.
Which One Does Your Market Take?
Tell us the destination, the bag and what the rice sells against on the shelf or in the tender, and we will tell you whether IRRI-9 is the one we would quote. If two are close we price both, so you compare landed cost against landed cost, not against a guess.
IRRI-9 Long Grain Rice — Product Specification
Every Consignment Ships With a Certificate of Analysis
Every consignment of IRRI-9 Long Grain Rice ships with a certificate of analysis against the figures below. Where a figure is a maximum we hold the mills to it; where it is a range we state the range rather than the flattering end of it.
- Variety: IRRI-9, Non-Basmati
- Origin: Pakistan, Grown in Sindh and Punjab
- Grain Type: Long Grain White Rice
- Average Grain Length: 6.8mm, Typically 6.5mm to 7.0mm
- Aroma: None, Naturally Non-Aromatic
- Texture Cooked: Dry and Separate, Not Sticky
- Moisture Content: 14% Maximum
- Broken Grain: 5% Standard, 10%, 15% and 25% To Order
- Pure IRRI-9 Grain: 95% Minimum
- Chalky Grains: 4% Maximum
- Damaged or Discoloured Grain: 1.5% Maximum
- Foreign Matter: 0.5% Maximum
- Paddy Grain: 0.2% Maximum
- Polishing: Double Silky Polished
- Sortex: Colour Sortexed
- Forms Available: White, Sella Parboiled, Brown
- Shelf Life: 18 to 24 Months, Stored Cool, Dry and Sealed
- Crop: Current Crop or Carryover, Stated on Every Batch
- Packaging: 5kg, 10kg, 20kg, 25kg, 40kg, 50kg PP or Jute, 1000kg Jumbo — Or Your Specification
- Private Label: Available
Grain length is the row that decides whether this page is worth reading. IRRI-9 Long Grain Rice averages 6.8mm and the working range is 6.5mm to 7.0mm — visibly longer than IRRI-6 at 6.0mm, and that difference is the whole reason the grade exists as a separate line.
Moisture at 14% is a maximum and not a target. Above it the rice sweats in the bag and a container is finished long before it has sold through in Mombasa or Basra. Broken grain is quoted at 5% as standard because that is what most destinations specify, and 10%, 15% and 25% are milled to order where the buyer is trading price rather than appearance.
Why Buyers Choose IRRI-9 Long Grain Rice
Four Reasons, All of Them About the Grain
IRRI-9 Long Grain Rice is specified for what it does on the plate and in the bag, and the four things below are what buyers actually check before they place a repeat order.
Visible Length at a Non-Basmati Cost
At 6.8mm IRRI-9 Long Grain Rice reads long on the plate and in a clear retail bag, and it is priced as a non-basmati grade. For a brand or a caterer trading up from a shorter staple, it is the cheapest step that a customer can actually see.
No Aroma to Fight the Dish
IRRI-9 Long Grain Rice is naturally non-aromatic. Under a curry, a stew or a jollof the flavour comes from the pot, and a scented grain competes with it. Kitchens cooking one rice for many dishes choose IRRI-9 for exactly that neutrality.
Cooks Dry and Separate in Volume
IRRI-9 holds its shape in a large pot and does not go sticky as it cools, which matters when rice is cooked in fifty-kilo batches and held in a tray. The sella form takes that further and survives reheating without breaking down.
One Variety, Four Broken Grades
IRRI-9 Long Grain Rice is milled at 5% broken as standard and at 10%, 15% and 25% to order, so a retail bag and a bulk tender can be filled from the same variety at two different price points without changing the grain your market knows.
Who Buys IRRI-9 Long Grain Rice From Us
Six Kinds of Buyer, Six Different Bags and Terms
What changes between these six is the bag, the order size and the terms. A distributor in Dar es Salaam and a hotel group in Doha can both order IRRI-9 Long Grain Rice on the same morning and take delivery of two completely different-looking consignments.
Importers and Distributors
Full container loads to your port or your door, 25kg and 50kg woven bags, and documents matched to your clearing agent's checklist before the vessel sails. Most take IRRI-9 Long Grain Rice on a standing quarterly booking. Wholesale supply.
Retailers and Supermarkets
Printed 5kg and 10kg retail bags, barcoded, with artwork approved before the mill packs. IRRI-9 Long Grain Rice suits a shelf where the grain is visible through the window and the price has to sit below the basmati facings. Private label supply.
Hotels and Restaurants
20kg and 25kg sacks delivered into the store in Doha from our own stock, on a schedule rather than a purchase order each time. Chefs specify IRRI-9 Long Grain Rice where one rice has to serve several different menus. Hospitality supply.
Catering and Institutional Buyers
40kg and 50kg sacks, tender-priced and fixed for the contract period, delivered against a call-off schedule. Camps, canteens and community kitchens take IRRI-9 Long Grain Rice in the sella form far more often than the white. Food service supply.
Own-Brand Packers and Repackers
Bulk 50kg in, your own printed bag out, packed either at the mill in Pakistan or on your own line at the destination end. Buyers repacking IRRI-9 Long Grain Rice usually run a single grade across several different bag sizes. Private label.
Wholesale and Cash and Carry
Mixed pallets, part loads and short lead times, because a cash and carry sells what is on the floor this week. IRRI-9 Long Grain Rice moves here in 20kg and 25kg alongside a cheaper staple, and the two get bought together on the same trolley.
Where We Ship IRRI-9 Long Grain Rice
Eight Markets, Named, With the Bag Each One Takes
What changes between these eight is the IRRI-9 form, the bag and the paperwork the destination asks for before the container is released.
Qatar and the Gulf (GCC)
Qatar, the UAE, Kuwait, Bahrain, Oman and Saudi Arabia. IRRI-9 Long Grain Rice is held in Qatar at Al Wakra in 20kg and 25kg, delivered to your door in Doha already cleared, or shipped part-load to Jebel Ali, Shuwaikh and Sohar on CFR terms. Nothing here is an import job for you.
Kenya
Pakistan is the largest supplier of milled rice into Kenya by a wide margin, and IRRI-9 Long Grain Rice moves through Mombasa in 25kg woven bags for onward distribution to Nairobi, Uganda and South Sudan. Every consignment carries the Certificate of Conformity KEBS requires.
Somalia, Djibouti and the Horn
Mogadishu, Berbera, Bosaso and Djibouti. This is a white-rice market that buys on price and on how the grain looks dry in the bag, and IRRI-9 Long Grain Rice ships here in 25kg and 50kg on CFR terms with the fumigation and phytosanitary certificates travelling with the container.
Tanzania and Southern Africa
Dar es Salaam and Zanzibar into Tanzania, and onward through Beira and Durban into Zambia, Malawi and Zimbabwe. IRRI-9 Long Grain Rice goes in 25kg and 50kg for repacking locally, and the sella form travels better on the long inland legs than the white does. East African rice trade.
Saudi Arabia
Dammam, Jeddah and Riyadh. Saudi buys more rice than any other market in the region, and IRRI-9 Long Grain Rice sells there as the everyday grade beneath the basmati shelf, in printed 5kg and 10kg for retail and bulk sacks for catering. Shipped CFR to port. Saudi rice market.
Iraq and the Levant
Umm Qasr for Iraq, Aqaba and Beirut for the Levant. Catering and institutional programmes here specify a long grain that plates well under a sauce without basmati pricing, which is the IRRI-9 argument exactly, and it ships in 25kg and 50kg to your port or to your own door.
Bangladesh and South Asia
Chattogram and Colombo. This is one of the few markets the Pakistani trade names for IRRI-9 specifically rather than for non-basmati generally, and it takes IRRI-9 Long Grain Rice in 50kg on CFR terms, white rather than sella, in full container loads against a letter of credit.
China and Southeast Asia
Shanghai, Guangzhou and the Malaysian and Philippine ports. Pakistan is already a top-four supplier of milled rice into China and IRRI-9 Long Grain Rice ships in 50kg on CFR terms, but Chinese entry needs a registered facility number and we confirm that mill by mill before we quote.
IRRI-9 Long Grain Rice Packing and Private Label
Five Pack Formats, Printed or Plain
IRRI-9 Long Grain Rice is packed to the format the destination sells in, and the bag is usually decided before the price is.
5kg and 10kg Retail Bags
Printed BOPP laminate with a clear window, barcoded and shelf-ready. This is the format IRRI-9 Long Grain Rice sells in through supermarkets in the Gulf and Saudi Arabia, where the buyer can see the grain length through the pack before he pays for it.
20kg and 25kg Catering Sacks
Woven PP, stitched and handled daily. 25kg is the standard East African shipment bag and 20kg is what a Doha kitchen store takes, so IRRI-9 Long Grain Rice runs in both, and the two of them are the most frequently ordered sizes on this whole page.
40kg and 50kg Trade Sacks
Woven PP or jute for bulk distribution and tenders, palletised or loose-loaded into the container. Repackers and institutional buyers take IRRI-9 Long Grain Rice at these weights because the cost per kilo of the bag itself drops away at that size.
Container Loading and Mixed Loads
A 20ft container takes roughly 25 to 27 tonnes of IRRI-9 Long Grain Rice depending on the bag. Mixed loads across two or three grades are normal, and part loads out of Qatar stock let a Gulf buyer take less than a full container without waiting for one.
Your Own Brand on the Bag
IRRI-9 Long Grain Rice packed in your artwork at the mill, from 5kg upward. The print run sits at the front of the lead time rather than the back, because artwork is approved and bags are printed before the rice is packed. Private label supply.
IRRI-9 Rice Quality, Inspection and Certificate of Conformity
What We Check Before an IRRI-9 Container Sails
Rice is bought on a specification and accepted on an inspection, and the two only match if somebody independent looks in the bag before it leaves Pakistan. The certifications GCC buyers ask for are listed below.
Four figures matter most on IRRI-9 Long Grain Rice, and they are the four we hold the mills to:
6.8mm Average Length
This is the figure IRRI-9 Long Grain Rice is bought for. Below 6.5mm the grain stops reading long in a clear retail bag and nobody can see the difference.
95% Pure IRRI-9
Varietal purity, checked on a sample before loading. Mixed varieties cook at different rates in the same pot, and a Mombasa distributor hears about it before we do.
14% Maximum Moisture
Above this the IRRI-9 rice sweats in the bag and it is finished long before a container has sold through in Dar es Salaam or Basra. A maximum, not a target.
5% To 25% Broken
The grade is milled to order and stated on every batch. A retail bag of IRRI-9 needs 5%; a bulk tender priced on landed cost will take 25% and know exactly why.
Sortex Is Where a Cheap Bag of IRRI-9 Gives Itself Away
A colour sortex reads every grain as it falls and blows out the ones that are the wrong colour — chalky whites, ambers, yellows and anything that is not rice at all. On IRRI-9 Long Grain Rice it is the step that protects the thing you are actually paying for, because this grade is bought on how the grain looks: a long white grain sold through a window in a printed bag has nowhere to hide a discoloured neighbour, and a buyer trading up from a shorter staple will see it before he sees the length. Ours is double silky polished and colour sortexed, and the chalky and discoloured figures are on the certificate of analysis.
We hold the mills to those figures and check every lot against a reference sample before it is bagged. Moisture is checked on arrival at the mill and again at the bag, because moisture is what turns a good lot into a claim six weeks later in a Mombasa or Basra warehouse. Crop year is recorded on every batch and stated to you, not left as subject to availability, and what the Pakistani certifications actually cover is set out in our note on rice certifications for GCC buyers. In Qatar the stock is kept under cover at Al Wakra and rotated first in, first out.
The Certificate Your Country Asks For On IRRI-9 Rice
Most destinations will not release a container of IRRI-9 Long Grain Rice without a pre-export certificate raised in Pakistan before the vessel sails, and it has to be in the documents when the container lands. Kenya, Tanzania and Uganda all work this way, and without it a container can be refused at the port or fined. Saudi Arabia runs its own route instead, built around product registration before the first shipment and Arabic labelling on retail packs, which is a different lead time rather than a lighter one. None of it can be fixed at the destination end once the rice has sailed. We arrange whichever applies as part of the shipment rather than leaving it with you, and the cost sits inside the price we quote. Tell us the destination country at enquiry and we will tell you which one you need and what it adds.
Independent Inspection Before It Sails
You do not have to take our word for the IRRI-9 Long Grain Rice specification. SGS, Cotecna, Intertek and Bureau Veritas all work at Pakistani ports, and any of them can attend the loading, draw their own samples and report on quality, quantity and weight before the container leaves. You appoint them and you pay them, and that is the point: the report is written to you, not to us. It is issued against the figures on this page rather than a general description of long grain rice, and buyers taking a first container from us often do this once and then never again.
What Travels With Every Container of IRRI-9 Rice
Commercial invoice, packing list, bill of lading, certificate of origin, certificate of analysis, phytosanitary certificate, fumigation certificate, halal certificate and the mill test sheet for your own IRRI-9 lot, showing what your rice actually measured rather than what the grade generally measures — plus the destination conformity certificate where the market requires one. If your bank or your border wants a document that is not on that list, ask before the container is booked. Adding one afterwards means the rice waits at the port at your cost until it is sorted out, and that gets expensive quickly.
Our partner mills operate under internationally recognised food safety and quality management systems, and are active members of the Rice Exporters Association of Pakistan (REAP), complying with Pakistan Standards & Quality Control Authority (PSQCA) requirements. The certificate for the mill behind your IRRI-9 Long Grain Rice is available on request.
How You Buy IRRI-9 Long Grain Rice From TEFT Global
From Our Stock in Qatar, or Shipped to Your Port or Door
In Qatar, IRRI-9 Long Grain Rice is already imported and cleared before you order it. Everywhere else it ships to your port with the freight paid, or to your door where we hold clearance. The supply routes are set out here.
In Qatar, From Our Own Stock
IRRI-9 Long Grain Rice is held at Al Wakra in 20kg and 25kg, white and sella, and delivered onto your loading bay in Doha. There is no letter of credit, no customs entry and no clearing agent, because the rice is already here and already ours. Order a pallet or order a truck; the price you are quoted is the price on the invoice, and a standing weekly or monthly drop is normal.
Everywhere Else, By the Container
A 20ft container of IRRI-9 Long Grain Rice takes 25 to 27 tonnes and ships CFR or CIF to your port with the freight paid, or delivered to your door in the markets where we hold local clearance. Milling to your broken grade takes about a fortnight from confirmation; add roughly two weeks on top if your own artwork is being printed, because the bags are made before the rice is packed.
Every other supplier ranking for IRRI-9 rice in Qatar quotes you a price at a foreign port and offers to help you import it. If you are in Qatar you are not importing anything from us. The rice is already here.
Ordering IRRI-9 Long Grain Rice
Five Things That Turn an Enquiry Into a Price
IRRI-9 Long Grain Rice is quoted per metric tonne, and the number moves with the form, the broken grade, the bag and where it is going.
The Form and the Broken Grade
White or sella, and 5%, 10%, 15% or 25% broken. These two together move the price of IRRI-9 Long Grain Rice more than anything else on this list, and they are the first two questions we will ask you.
The Destination, Not the Port
Tell us where the IRRI-9 rice is going and who takes delivery. If it is a port we quote CFR or CIF; if it is your own warehouse we quote to the door where we hold clearance, and in Qatar we simply deliver it.
The Bag
5kg to 50kg, plain or printed. A printed retail bag adds a print run to the front of the lead time, so tell us early if you want your own artwork rather than after the IRRI-9 rice has been booked.
The Volume and the Frequency
One container or twelve a year. A standing programme prices differently from a single shipment, and it lets us hold IRRI-9 Long Grain Rice against your name rather than quote from whatever is free.
Samples Before You Commit
We send samples of IRRI-9 Long Grain Rice to serious buyers, and of two forms where the choice is close, so you can cook them side by side. Tell us the intended use and where you are based today.
IRRI-9 Long Grain Rice: Questions Buyers Ask
Specification, Forms, Packing and Supply
The questions that come up most often on IRRI-9 Long Grain Rice, answered plainly.
IRRI-9 Long Grain Rice is a Pakistani non-basmati long grain white rice grown across Sindh and Punjab. The milled grain averages 6.8mm, it is naturally non-aromatic, and it cooks dry and separate rather than sticky. It is double silky polished and colour sortexed, and it is supplied as white rice, as sella parboiled rice and as brown rice.
IRRI-9 Long Grain Rice averages 6.8mm, with a working range of 6.5mm to 7.0mm. That makes it visibly longer than IRRI-6 long grain rice, which averages 6.0mm, and it is the main reason buyers pay a premium for IRRI-9 over IRRI-6 on the same tonnage.
No. IRRI-9 Long Grain Rice is naturally non-aromatic and has no scent of its own. For most buyers that is the reason they specify it: the rice is carrying a curry, a stew or a biryani sauce, and an aromatic grain would compete with the dish rather than support it.
Grain length and price. IRRI-9 Long Grain Rice runs 6.8mm and costs more per tonne; IRRI-6 runs 6.0mm and is the volume staple. Both are Pakistani non-basmati long grains, both are non-aromatic, and both are milled at 5% to 25% broken. Where the plate has to look long-grained, quote IRRI-9.
Three. IRRI-9 white rice, double silky polished and colour sortexed; IRRI-9 sella rice, parboiled in the husk so it holds its shape through long holding and reheating; and IRRI-9 brown rice, husked but not milled white, supplied by arrangement rather than from stock.
IRRI-9 Long Grain Rice is packed in 5kg, 10kg, 20kg, 25kg, 40kg and 50kg, in printed laminate for retail or woven PP and jute for trade. 25kg is the standard East African shipment bag and 20kg is what most Gulf kitchens take. Private label packing is supported from 5kg upward.
One full container load, which is 25 to 27 tonnes of IRRI-9 Long Grain Rice in a 20ft container, for international shipments. Buyers in Qatar and the GCC can take part loads from our own stock at Al Wakra, down to a single pallet, because that rice is already imported and cleared.
Qatar, the United Arab Emirates, Kuwait, Bahrain, Oman, Saudi Arabia, Kenya, Uganda, South Sudan, the Democratic Republic of Congo, Somalia, Djibouti, Tanzania, Zambia, Malawi, Zimbabwe, Iraq, Jordan, Lebanon, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, China, Malaysia and the Philippines.
Yes. IRRI-9 Long Grain Rice is packed in your artwork at the mill from 5kg upward, and the bags are printed before the rice is packed, so allow roughly a fortnight for the print run on top of the milling lead time. Artwork is proofed and approved by you before anything is printed.
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