Grains & Cereals Overview

India is the world's second-largest producer of Rice, Wheat and other cereals. The huge demand for cereals in the global market is creating an excellent environment for the export of Indian cereal products.

Sometimes India imposes ban on the export of rice and wheat, etc to meet domestic needs. Rather seeing the huge demand in the global market and the country's surplus production, India sometime lifts the ban, but only a limited amount of export of the commodity is allowed. The allowed marginal quantity of exported cereals could not make any significant impact either on domestic prices or the storage conditions.

The important cereals are - wheat, paddy, sorghum, millet (Bajra), barley and maize, etc. According to the first estimate for the year 2020-21 by the ministry of agriculture of India, the production of major cereals like rice, maize and Bajra stood at 102.36 million tonnes, 19.88 million tonnes and 9.23 million tonnes respectively. The latest data of wheat production is available for the periods of 2019-20 and it is estimated to be 107.49 million tonnes (4th advance estimates).

India is the largest producer as well as the largest exporter of cereal products in the world. India's export of cereals stood at Rs. 96,011.42 Crore / 12,872.64 USD Millions during the year 2021-22. Rice (including Basmati and Non-Basmati) occupy the major share in India's total cereals export with 75% (in value terms) during the same period. Whereas, other cereals including wheat represent only a 25 % share of total cereals exported from India during this period.

Major Export Destinations (2021-22): Bangladesh, Iran, Saudi Arabia, Nepal, Vietnam and Benin.

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    2021-22
  • Exported Cereals

    Rs. 96,011.42 Crore / 12,872.64 USD Millions

Maize

Major Export Destinations (2021-22): Bangladesh, Vietnam, Nepal, Malaysia, Myanmar and Sri Lanka.

The country has exported 3,690,469.12 MT of maize to the world for the worth of Rs. 7,615.46 crores/ 1,020.85 USD Millions in 2021-22.

Color : Natural yellow

Grade : Animal feed

Process : Dried

Moisture : < 14%

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Ragi

India exports most of it's Ragi to Nepal, Tunisia, Malaysia, Australia, Canada and many parts of the World.

India Exports Ragi products worth price of 32.87 INR Million in Aug 2016, 25.83 INR Million in Jun 2016, 27.88 INR Million in Jul 2016, 54.12 INR Million in Oct 2016, 32.7 INR Million in Sep 2016 and 62.68 INR Million in Nov 2016 in India.

Also known as : Finger Millet

Color : Dark red

Process : Dried

Packing : 25 kg, 50 kg

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Rice

India exports most of it's Rice to United States, Nepal and United Arab Emirates and is the largest exporter of Rice in the World. The top 3 exporters of Rice are India with 1,107,455 shipments followed by China with 267,983 and Vietnam at the 3rd spot with 215,470 shipments.

India Exports Basmati Rice products worth price of 1,476.3 INR Million in Jun 2016, 1,790.07 INR Million in Jul 2016, 2,056.88 INR Million in Sep 2016, 1,708.43 INR Million in Aug 2016, 1,795.02 INR Million in Oct 2016 and 1,879.85 INR Million in Nov 2016 in India.

Color : White, Golden, Brown

Varity : Basmati, Non-basmati

Packaging size : 10 kg, 50 kg

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