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MUMBAI: India’s southern nation of Andhra Pradesh will use a deepwater port to export  rice for the primary time in many years amid a worldwide scarcity of the grain, in keeping with an authorities order visible with the aid of using Reuters, that could enhance shipments this yr with the aid of using a fifth.

Shipments top $3 billion as volumes exceed 8 mill tonnes; Basmati pushed to second Non-basmati rice as a product category has overtaken basmati to emerge as the top grosser in India’s agri-export basket in value terms with shipments exceeding $3 Billion in the April-December period of the current financial year. Basmati rice has been the

India is heading towards a near record rice production for 2020-21, according to a report from FAS (Foreign Agriculture Service) of the US department of Agriculture. As a comparison from 2016-20 rice consumption In India detail as under:- Market year Domestic Consumption Unit of Measure Growth Rate 2016 95838 (1000 MT) 2.55% 2017 98669 (1000