Vol. 7, Issue 6 (2019)

In the world, rice dominates overall crop production and overall food consumption in rice-producing Asia. India is the second largest producer of rice after china. The study explores the export of Rice in India is selected for the study and to study the performance of rice area, production, and productivity of rice and to work out the export competitiveness of rice in India.

The data was collected from the secondary sources i.e India-Agri-Stat official websites, APEDA, FAO and Government of India for the period 1992-93 to 2016-17. The period of study has been divided into two periods, period I (1992-93 to 2001-2002), period II (2002-03 to 2016-17) and overall period (1992-93 to 2016-17).

The following specific objectives were considered the study:

1.To study the export performance of rice in India.

2.To work out the export competitiveness of rice in India.

While studying growth in export, period II and overall period showed positive and highly significant growth with highest growth during period II of export value at 19.77 per cent. Highest CV was observed during overall study of export value at 112.84 per cent with highest instability during period I of export quantity at 59.03 per cent. Saudi Arabia and Kuwait were observed to be highly stable destination countries for the export of rice from India. The results of growth, is a positive and significant growth in export quantity and value of Rice from India.

Indian rice experienced highest export advantage for rice export it is observed that, during the year 2010-11 at 28.20 per cent with the NPC of 0.72 followed by the year. Indian Rice experienced the lowest export advantage at 75.89 per cent with the NPC 0.24 during the year 2009-10 as the domestic price of Rice was very low as compared to the than the international price. It is concluded that, more or less fluctuations within the gulf countries because NPC increasing means there was decrease in international price in the world market compare to the domestic market.