Basmati arrival up in mandis, prices down
3 months ago

Basmati arrival up in mandis, prices down

Hindustan Times  

The arrivals of premium aromatic grain basmati in the mandis of Punjab is higher than the previous season by at least 10% but the price it has been fetching is less by one-third than the price at which the produce was sold last season. So far, 4.81 lakh tonnes of basmati has arrived in the state’s mandis which correspondingly last year was 4.26 lakh tonnes. Basmati traders and exporters are not lifting the stocks because they have huge stocks of the previous season as the Centre imposed a minimum export price of $950, due to which the exporters were unable to export the stocks as they have been doing in the past,” said basmati exporters’ association director Ashok Sethi. According to Ravi Sher Singh, a basmati grower from Tarn Taran, the premium crop has been mostly sold at around ₹2,700 per quintal which is half of the last year’s price. According to the Agricultural and Processed Food Products Export Development Authority figures, the foreign exchange earnings in 2022 from export of 175 lakh tonnes of non-basmati rice was ₹63,000 crore, while from the export of 45 lakh tonnes of basmati rice, the forex realisation was ₹48,000 crore.

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