Making on last year’s robust expansion, exports of agri-items below the portfolio of Agricultural and Processed Meals Export Progress Authority (APEDA) registered a 44 per cent raise in the first quarter of current financial yr on larger overseas desire. This is notwithstanding challenges these as the source chain concerns brought on by the Covid next wave induced lockdown for the duration of April and May possibly across the state and larger freight costs.

In accordance to brief estimates, exports of farm items monitored by the APEDA touched $4.817 billion for the duration of April-June 2021 in comparison with $three.338 billion in the very same period a yr in the past.

Shipments of rice — basmati and non-basmati — grew twenty five per cent at $2.398 billion in opposition to $1.914 billion in the yr-in the past period . Rice is the most significant solution in APEDA’s portfolio. Aspects of the rice volumes delivered for the duration of the quarter had been not readily available, although desire continues to be robust for the cereal.

 

Cereals and livestock

Other cereals, together with wheat and maize, registered a whopping 415 per cent raise for the duration of the quarter. Exports of other cereals stood at $235.three million in comparison with $44.9 million in the first quarter last yr, APEDA mentioned.

Exports of livestock items, together with meat, dairy and poultry, attained 111.five per cent for the duration of the quarter topping the $1-billion mark.

The price of livestock items for the duration of the quarter stood at $1.022 billion in comparison with $483.three billion in the yr-in the past period. Cereal preparations and miscellaneous processed items registered sixty nine.six per cent expansion to exceed the 50 percent a billion mark for the duration of the critique period. Exports of cereal planning and other processed items stood at $527.seven million in opposition to $311.1 million.

Fruits and veggies

Fruits and vegetable exports improved by 9.1 per cent to $637 million in the first quarter in comparison with $584.five million in the very same period a yr in the past.

All through the last fiscal, exports of APEDA items improved by twenty five per cent to $19.ninety six billion on robust expansion in shipments of items these as rice and wheat.