Faculty of Agriculture, University of Jember succeeded in creating artificial rice called intelligent rice, to replace conventional rice. the creation of intelligent rice aims to accelerate the diversification of food, as well as reduce the high dependence on rice commodities. His name is a smart rice. But this one is not rice rice known and consumed by almost all the people of Indonesia. Rice is just rice clone. At first glance, the color brown as the color of dry grain. The shape is also similar to rice. However, when observed further, then the difference between smart rice and brown rice (rice grain) will be different. Inventors intelligent rice Ahmad Subagyo said government programs such as the distribution of Raskin is good enough to help poor households. but there are also negative impacts arising from the program. one of them, cause people who previously staple food instead of rice as in Maluku and Sulawesi, be dependent on the availability of rice. whereas food security in Indonesia is still very vulnerable, due to climate and price fluctuations.
Starting from such thinking, Jember University in collaboration with the ministries of agriculture and national food security agency, trying to create intelligent rice, the raw starch and corn mocaf with additional milk as a protein. the composition of the material, we can be sure the nutrient content of rice is higher intelligent dibandi ordinary rice.
Furthermore Subagyo explained, this smart rice there are several kinds. including doing regular rice flour and corn mocaf, with the addition of milk protein and purple potatoes for people with special needs, such as diabetics and cholesterol. but it also is made from soy and rice milk contain much to enrich the protein, which is given to severely malnourished.
The main difference of course in nutritional content. Because smart rice developed by the University of Jember and the number of plants in East Java at the instigation of Food Security Agency (BKP) made from cassava flour mocaf main (Modified Cassava Flour). Flour Mocaf briefly looked like flour. If made from wheat flour, then Mocaf derived from cassava, one of the commodities grown Indonesian people before knowing rice. Smart rice mixed with other commodities, can be refined corn (ampok), vegetables such as carrots, cabbage and beans. The most striking difference is rice with brown rice of course, how to cook it.
To introduce intelligent rice to the community, the university Thursday afternoon muddy intelligent distributed 4.9 tons of rice to poor households in the district and sumberbaru jelbuk. Each RTS will get as much as 10 kilograms of 'intelligent rice' as a substitute for the consumption of non-staple food rice, '' he said. '' Because based on BPS data, the number of poor households is still high. Meanwhile, Indonesia's food security is still vulnerable. Subagyo expect intelligent rice is able to be an alternative, when the rice commodity production is reduced. especially at this time in East Java had been there 4 factories that produce rice intelligent, with the ability of each to produce 2 tons of rice per day intelligent. two factories located in Jember, while the other two are in ponorogo and Blitar.
Rice instant fairly intelligent because quite cooked for 10 minutes can be directly eaten. "Because smart rice is already half done," said the initiator of intelligent rice, Prof. Ahmad Subagyo. Smart enough rice poured into the container and then soaked in boiling water for 5 minutes, then steamed for 10 minutes. Can be steamed on the stove or use a rice cooker (rice cooker). Afterwards, intelligent rice ready to serve.
