NEW DELHI: BV Krishna Rao, President of Rice Association has said that the exporters are seeking a market access to Nigeria and China. Faced with a sluggish trend in non-basmati rice shipments amidst stiff competition from major producers such as Thailand and Vietnam, exporters are looking for government intervention in facilitating a market access to large buyers such as Nigeria and China.
While Nigeria, one of the large buyers of the Indian cereal, has stopped official imports for about a year now due to their domestic crisis and currency-related issues, China – a potential large market – is yet to open up its borders for the non-basmati rice.
“The government should intervene and assist the exporters in seeking a market access to these large buyers Nigeria and China,” said BV Krishna Rao, President of Rice Exporters Association. “While we have been buying crude from Nigeria for some time now, we expect that the Indian rice exporters should be given a preferential treatment by the African nation,” Rao said.
India, in fact, was a biggest supplier of par-boiled rice to Nigeria with shipments exceeding one million tonnes last year.
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