An ancient rice native to Tamilnadu, Khichdi Samba rice (also called kichadi samba or kichili samba rice) is one of the popular traditional rice varieties of paddy. It is a fine-grained, white rice that is excellent for sadam, biriyani and kanji. It is a personally experienced fact that regular eating of this rice increases disease resistance in the body and substantially improves our robustness. In spite of being fine-grained with a slender stalk, this variety of rice is also extremely hardy, resistant to both pests and diseases and can withstand both drought and flood.