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India imported 19.63 lakh tonnes of pulses during April-October this fiscal to meet domestic demand, the government said

During April-October this fiscal year, India exported 26.08 lakh tonnes of basmati rice and 73.18 lakh tonnes of non-basmati rice.

Agriculture Minister Arjun Munda provided the Lok Sabha with export statistics for the main food grains in a written response.

The data shows that for the full 2022–2023 fiscal year, 45.61 lakh tonnes of basmati rice were exported, compared to 177.92 lakh tonnes of non-basmati rice shipments.

In 2018–19, 44.15 lakh tons of basmati rice were exported; in 2019–20, 44.55 lakh tonnes; in 2020–21, 46.30 lakh tonnes; and in 2021–22, 39.44 lakh tonnes.

76.48 lakh tonnes of rice (apart from basmati) were exported in 2018–19; 50.56 lakh tonnes in 2019–20; 131.49 lakh tonnes in 2020–21; and 172.89 lakh tonnes in 2021–22, according to the data.

In 2022–2023 India produced 1,357.55 lakh tonnes of rice, compared to 1,294.71 lakh tonnes in the previous year.

India imported 19.63 lakh tonnes of pulses during April-October this fiscal to meet domestic demand, the government said.

In a written reply to the Lok Sabha, Agriculture Minister Arjun Munda informed that pulses imports stood at 24.96 lakh tonnes during 2022-23, 27 lakh tonnes in 2021-22, 24.66 lakh tonnes in 2020-21, 28.98 lakh tonnes in 2019-20 and 25.28 lakh tonnes in 2018-19.

The production of pulses stood at 220.76 lakh tonnes in 2018-19, 230.25 lakh tonnes in 2019-20, 254.63 lakh tonnes in 2020-21, 273.02 lakh tonnes in 2021-22 and 260.58 lakh tonnes in 2022-23.

India imported 19.63 lakh tonnes of pulses

India

The three improved varieties are resistant to scorch and blight disease

Narendra Singh Tomar, Union Minister for Agriculture and Farmers Welfare and Kailash Chaudhary, Minister of State for Agriculture and Farmers Welfare visited the Indian Agricultural Research Institute (IARI), Pusa, New Delhi, and inspected the paddy field of IARI, Pusa and the paddy being cultivated there. 

They inspected an advanced line of coarse rice, an improved high yielding variety of Pusa 44, and commended the work being done by the Pusa Institute. They observed three varieties which are resistant to scorch and blight disease of Basmati rice, – the Pusa Basmati 1847 which is an improvement of Pusa Basmati 1509, Pusa Basmati 1885 which is an improvement of Pusa Basmati 1121 and Pusa Basmati 1886 which is an improved form of Pusa 1401. There will be no need to spray pesticides in these varieties, which will reduce the cost as well as produce Basmati rice free from chemical residues, which will fetch good price in the international market and directly benefit farmers’ income.

The three improved varieties are resistant to

Acts & Schemes – Centre, AgroPolicy

The government has banned the export of broken rice and imposed a 20 per cent export duty on non-basmati rice, according to a government notification. The imposition does not include parboiled rice amid a fall in area under the paddy crop in the current kharif season.

According to the notification, certain consignments of broken rice will be allowed to be exported during the period September 9-15. It has been allowed keeping in view the consignments commenced before this notification, where the shipping bill is filed and vessels have already berthed or arrived and anchored on Indian ports and their rotation number has been allocated before this order.

‘Export Policy of broken rice …is amended from ‘Free’ to ‘Prohibited’,’ the Directorate General of Foreign Trade (DGFT) said in a notification dated September 8, 2022. The notification comes into effect from September 9, 2022. Provisions under the Foreign Trade Policy 2015-2020 regarding the transitional arrangement shall not be applicable to this notification, it added.

The government has banned the export of