Signs of Good Growth in Food Product Exports

18-Sep-2025 06:18 PM

Mumbai. With good quality, competitive prices, and adequate stock, India's exports of key food products, including basmati rice, common (coarse) rice, pulses, peanuts, guar gum, cashews, coarse grains, and milled products, are showing signs of growth. These products remain in strong demand in the international market.

Data from the Agricultural and Processed Food Products Export Development Authority (APEDA), a subsidiary of the Union Ministry of Commerce,

shows that during the first four months of the current financial year, April-July 2025, gross rice exports from the country increased to over 6.7 million tonnes, including shipments of 2,247,206 tonnes of basmati rice and 4,476,634 tonnes of non-basmati rice.

Basmati rice remained in strong demand in the Gulf countries and common rice in African countries. Its export is expected to improve in future as well because due to attractive export offer price and very low exchange rate of Rupee against Dollar, there is huge interest of foreign importers in purchasing Indian rice.

There is sufficient exportable stock of rice in India while new rice is also entering the markets very soon.

According to APEDA, 3,07,599 tonnes of pulses were exported from the country in the first four months of the current financial year.

India is the major producer and consumer of pulses for buyers from neighboring countries and West Asia, while it also imports the maximum amount of pulses, but India also exports pulses in limited quantity to many countries of the world.

Additionally, India exported 258,362 tonnes of peanuts, 190,986 tonnes of guar gum, 10,421 tonnes of processed cashew kernels, 9,325 tonnes of cashew nut shell liquid, 222,187 tonnes of other grains (excluding rice and wheat),

89,279 tonnes of mill products, and 349 tonnes of wheat during April-July 2025. Commercial wheat exports have been banned since 2022, but some shipments are still permitted at the government level.