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Basmati rice in India - Its production and export

Sajad Ahmad Wani, Sachin Kumar Manhas and Pradyuman Kumar

Overall production of rice in India is 1,592,00,000 tonne (FAOSTAT 2013). According to a report available with the Agricultural and Processed Food Products Export Development Authority (APEDA), it has been found that about 37.572 lakh tonne of basmati rice valued at Rs 29,299.96 crore in India was exported from April 2013 to March 2014.