![]() ![]() View a display in Gro’s Climate Risk Navigator of India’s aggregated rice growing areas for daily updates of precipitation, temperature, vegetative health, and other growing conditions or to see displays for the top rice growing states of West Bengal, Uttar Pradesh, and Odisha, India’s third-largest rice producing state. Overall, however, an aggregation of India’s rice growing areas, using Gro’s Climate Risk Navigator for Agriculture, shows that accumulated rainfall between June 1 and September 6 was 1% below the 10-year average. In West Bengal, India’s largest rice producing state, precipitation levels through September 6 were 13% lower than the 10-year average, and in India’s second-largest producing state, Uttar Pradesh, accumulated rainfall is 26.4% below its 10-year average. Additionally, precipitation levels have been poor in India’s top two rice producing states. ![]() Heading into this growing season India was already anticipating lower rice production because a slower than usual start to its monsoon season had curtailed rice planted area. As India accounts for more than 40% of the world's rice shipments, its new export curbs could also lift rice prices globally. Parboiled and basmati rice are excluded from the new export duty.ĭomestic prices for rice and rice products in India, which have been climbing since April, are now at a record high, as can be seen in this Gro Data Series chart. India, the world's largest rice exporter, from September 9 is imposing a 20% export duty on certain rice exports in a bid to curb soaring domestic prices while ensuring adequate local supplies.
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