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- The Food and Consumer Affairs Ministry recently banned the export of non-basmati white rice, with immediate effect.
- It aims to ensure adequate availability of non-basmati white rice in the Indian market and to allay the rise in prices in the domestic market.
- Rice production has taken a hit owing to vagaries of weather such as heavy monsoon rains in rice-producing States in the north and deficit rainfall in other parts of the country.
- China, a major rice producer, has also suffered owing to inclement weather.
- India is the world’s leading rice exporter, accounting for more than 40% of the global rice trade, as well as the second-largest producer after China.
- The major markets for Indian rice are African countries.
- China, India, Thailand, Vietnam, and Pakistan are the leading producers and major global suppliers of rice.
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