India's April-January non-basmati rice exports jump 34 per cent year on year: Govt body

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Updated: Mar 14, 2018, 01.12 PM IST
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India is the world's biggest exporter of rice.
MUMBAI: India's non-basmati rice exports during April-January jumped 34 percent from a year earlier to 7.02 million tonnes as Bangladesh, Benin and Sri Lanka raised purchases, a government body said.

The country's buffalo meat exports during the period rose 7.2 percent from a year ago to 1.16 million tonnes on good demand from Vietnam, Malaysia and Egypt, the Agricultural and Processed Food Products Export Development Authority said in a statement.

India is the world's biggest exporter of buffalo meat and rice.