APEDA holds virtual meet with stakeholders to increase rice exports to Togo

The Agricultural and Processed Meals Exports Growth Authority (APEDA) organised a virtual satisfy of non-Basmati rice exporters in affiliation with Indian Embassy, Lome, Togo, as part of its endeavours to strengthen and increase rice exports.

Critical officers from APEDA, Indian embassy, Chamber of Commerce and Field, Togo, and critical rice exporters from India participated in the virtual satisfy held on Friday, an formal press release mentioned.

The theme of the satisfy was “Chances in non-Basmati rice sector concerning India and Togo”, the place ten foremost rice exporters, Ambassador of India to Togo, Sanjeev Tandon, APEDA Chairman M Angamuthu, Advisor, Chamber of Commerce and Field, Togo Lambert Dameto Nayante, and many others participated.

This is part of APEDA’s endeavours which has been organising a series of virtual satisfies with a variety of international locations to provide a system to exporters and importers thanks to curbs imposed in the course of the ongoing Covid-19 pandemic. The pandemic has resulted in APEDA not staying able to hold export advertising programmes bodily.

India exported more than thirteen million tonnes (mt) of non-basmati rice valued at ₹35,476 crore previous fiscal. All through the April-July interval of the current fiscal, non-basmati rice valued at ₹14,091 crore ($one,901 million) has been shipped.

Togo imports par-boiled, white and damaged rice. It port also functions as the gateway to other international locations this kind of as Mali, Niger and Burkina Faso.

Greater results

India’s quest for growing the footprint of cereals exports through discovering new prospects in international locations or markets has yielded results. The sharp spike in exports of primarily rice (basmati and non-basmati), wheat and other cereals in 2020-21 is attributed to synergy and collaboration concerning a variety of stakeholders – farmers, millers, exporters and authorities organizations in boosting exports, the release mentioned.

APEDA has been discovering new prospects through making sure sector access, adherence to products features and phytosanitary measures for cereal merchandise in collaboration with a variety of stakeholders.

All through the previous fiscal, India shipped non-basmati rice to 9 international locations – Timor-Leste, Puerto Rico, Brazil, Papua New Guinea, Zimbabwe, Burundi, Eswatini, Myanmar and Nicaragua. Exports have been made for the very first time or shipments have been of smaller sized quantity in the prior decades.

The quantity of exports of rice to these 9 international locations was 188 tonnes and 197 tonnes in the course of 2018-19 and 2019-20 respectively, even though it amplified to one.fifty three lakh tonnes previous fiscal.