THE MINISTER OF COMMERCE AND INDUSTRY
(SHRI PIYUSH GOYAL)
(a) The details of quantity and value of exports and imports of foodgrains and other agricultural products, during the last three years and the current year, are at Annexure-I and Annexure-II respectively. Country-wise details for the last three years (top 10 countries) are at Annexure-III. As export and import of agricultural products depend on several factors such as International & domestic demand & supply situation, international & domestic prices, quality concerns, food security concerns etc., no targets for exports or imports are fixed.
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(b) The share of agriculture sector in the country’s total exports, during the last three years, has been as under:
Year 2016-17 2017-18 2018-19
Share of agriculture sector in total exports 12.07% 12.66% 11.76%
Source: DGCI&S
State/Union Territory-wise data is not published by the Directorate General of Commercial Intelligence & Statistics (DGCI&S).
(c) Overall exports of agricultural products grew by 2.64% in 2016-17 as compared to the previous year. The exports of tea, spices and manufactured tobacco grew by 1.56%, 12.22% and 2.41% respectively while the exports of unmanufactured tobacco declined by 4.65%. Some of the major commodities, which registered a decline in exports were buffalo meat (-4.07%), basmati rice (-7.75%) and cotton (-16.38%). There are several reasons for the decline viz. lower prices and demand in the international market, unfavourable currency movements, international developments like sanctions against Iran and Russia etc.
(d) No study has been conducted to assess the long term impact of exports on the agricultural and horticultural sector by the Department of Commerce. However, it is expected that exports not only provide better market opportunities to the growers but also generally help in increasing their income.
(e) To promote the agricultural exports, The Government has introduced a comprehensive Agriculture Export Policy with the following vision:-
“Harness export potential of Indian agriculture, through suitable policy instruments, to make India a global power in agriculture, and raise farmers’ income.”
Inter-alia, the objectives of the Agriculture Export policy are as under:
(i) To diversify our export basket, destinations and boost high value and value added agricultural exports, including focus on perishables.
(ii) To promote novel, indigenous, organic, ethnic, traditional and non-traditional Agri products exports.
(iii) To provide an institutional mechanism for pursuing market access, tackling barriers and dealing with sanitary and phytosanitary issues.
(iv) To strive to double India’s share in world agri exports by integrating with global value chains.
(v) Enable farmers to get benefit of export opportunities in overseas market.
The Government has also brought out a new Central Sector Scheme – ‘Transport and Marketing Assistance for Specified Agriculture Products’ - for providing assistance for the international component of freight, to mitigate the freight disadvantage for the export of agriculture products, and marketing of agricultural products.
The Department of Commerce also has several schemes to promote exports, including exports of agricultural products, viz. Trade Infrastructure for Export Scheme (TIES), Market Access Initiatives (MAI) Scheme, Merchandise Exports from India Scheme (MEIS) etc. In addition, assistance to the exporters of agricultural products is also available under the Export Promotion Schemes of Agricultural & Processed Food Products Export Development Authority (APEDA), Marine Products Export Development Authority (MPEDA), Tobacco Board, Tea Board, Coffee Board, Rubber Board and Spices Board.
Annexure-I
EXPORT OF AGRICULTURAL PRODUCTS
Quantity: in thousand units; Value: USD Million
2016-17 2017-18 2018-19 2019-20 (Apr-May)
Description UNIT Quantity Value Quantity Value Quantity Value Quantity Value
Alcoholic Beverages LTR 2,32,179.33 298.90 2,41,013.37 326.67 2,31,601.93 300.91 24,470.87 38.17
Animal Casings KGS 173.24 2.06 12,424.66 50.68 14,882.83 68.27 1,860.28 9.18
Buffalo Meat TON 1,323.58 3,903.49 1,350.25 4,037.11 1,233.38 3,587.15 196.12 553.36
Cashew TON 91.79 786.93 90.06 922.41 78.22 654.43 10.73 84.50
Cashew Nut Shell Liquid KGS 11,404.76 6.56 8,325.16 5.06 5,300.66 3.87 651.15 0.47
Castor Oil KGS 5,99,195.56 674.73 6,97,092.50 1,043.99 6,19,376.57 883.78 1,08,029.60 180.07
Cereal Preparations TON 339.95 531.70 353.35 552.61 347.77 551.74 54.30 87.27
Cocoa Products KGS 25,649.50 162.18 29,579.53 177.47 27,603.73 192.69 4,617.91 30.16
Coffee KGS 2,88,613.37 842.84 3,17,828.97 968.57 2,82,889.02 822.34 56,749.99 149.54
Cotton Raw Incld. Waste TON 996.09 1,621.11 1,101.47 1,894.25 1,143.07 2,104.41 66.99 118.70
Dairy Products KGS 90,352.31 253.73 1,02,262.55 303.05 1,80,698.38 481.55 26,150.46 71.90
Floricltr Products KGS 22,020.33 81.55 20,703.51 78.73 19,726.56 81.78 2,983.68 13.45
Fresh Fruits TON 817.06 743.23 714.00 761.79 754.75 794.04 155.35 154.15
Fresh Vegetables TON 3,404.07 863.12 2,448.02 821.76 2,933.37 810.44 449.73 119.96
Fruits / Vegetable Seeds KGS 11,288.62 78.16 14,465.77 104.04 17,419.48 124.92 2,534.57 30.91
Groundnut TON 725.71 809.60 504.04 524.82 489.19 472.74 85.97 92.05
Guergam Meal TON 419.95 463.35 494.13 646.94 513.22 674.88 91.96 117.43
Marine Products KGS 11,85,272.87 5,903.06 14,32,456.67 7,389.22 14,36,680.63 6,802.24 2,24,351.96 996.97
Milled Products KGS 2,55,803.65 121.37 2,70,396.97 136.01 3,07,367.50 151.46 46,225.21 23.13
Misc Processed Items - 455.59 - 550.55 - 658.35 - 106.10
Mollases TON 390.67 47.06 123.97 15.06 841.16 83.76 113.25 11.53
Natural Rubber TON 24.46 37.65 7.70 13.89 6.66 11.02 1.13 1.90
Niger Seeds KGS 14,070.46 17.46 9,215.04 10.84 13,370.58 13.64 2,001.16 2.33
Oil Meals TON 2,632.26 805.45 3,570.78 1,093.16 4,486.14 1,511.52 483.70 145.05
Other Cereals TON 734.77 212.30 864.24 248.59 1,277.00 349.06 89.28 36.15
Other Meat TON 0.01 0.03 0.45 1.09 0.85 1.96 0.35 0.76
Other Oil Seeds TON 193.27 126.00 295.10 174.79 213.83 131.57 18.88 13.27
Poultry Products - 79.11 - 85.70 - 98.17 - 14.23
Processed Fruits And Juices KGS 5,33,152.10 584.79 5,73,281.42 646.92 5,92,174.58 639.65 89,406.13 95.12
Processed Meat TON 0.14 0.69 0.27 1.54 0.41 2.00 0.16 0.90
Processed Vegetables KGS 1,92,855.77 263.57 2,12,203.36 282.87 2,28,872.64 293.95 38,164.28 48.93
Pulses TON 136.72 191.05 179.60 227.75 285.83 259.34 28.96 26.43
Rice -Basmati TON 3,985.21 3,208.60 4,056.85 4,169.56 4,414.61 4,712.44 864.03 932.20
Rice(Other Than Basmati) TON 6,770.83 2,525.19 8,818.53 3,636.60 7,599.75 3,040.22 711.84 293.82
Sesame Seeds KGS 3,07,328.55 402.17 3,36,850.37 463.90 3,11,987.34 538.94 41,637.11 84.06
Sheep/Goat Meat TON 22.01 129.69 22.80 130.90 21.67 124.65 3.62 22.98
Shellac KGS 6,065.00 33.60 6,530.85 44.22 6,996.04 43.70 1,039.16 6.24
Spices KGS 10,14,453.31 2,851.95 10,96,322.85 3,115.37 10,91,789.68 3,322.56 2,09,119.92 586.77
Sugar TON 2,544.01 1,290.71 1,757.93 810.90 3,987.96 1,359.75 1,189.20 382.87
Tea KGS 2,43,429.62 731.26 2,72,894.98 837.36 2,70,300.12 830.90 39,617.55 132.90
Tobacco Manufactured - 324.31 - 340.37 - 410.96 - 59.46
Tobacco Unmanufactured KGS 2,04,447.42 634.38 1,85,363.88 593.88 1,89,538.70 570.28 32,419.79 102.26
Vegetable Oils TON 60.47 116.29 37.06 87.83 49.95 106.79 8.51 19.79
Wheat TON 265.61 66.85 322.79 96.72 226.23 60.31 16.90 4.42
TOTAL 33,283.41 38,425.52 38,739.10 6,001.81
Source: DGCI&S
Annexure-II
IMPORT OF AGRICULTURAL COMMODITIES
Quantity: in thousand units; Value: USD Million
2016-17 2017-18 2018-19 2019-20 (Apr-May)
DESCRIPTION UNIT Quantity Value Quantity Value Quantity Value Quantity Value
Alcoholic Beverages LTR 4,52,717.72 535.56 5,63,769.85 601.22 5,87,940.57 667.60 1,10,410.99 122.48
Cashew TON 774.51 1,346.58 654.02 1,418.63 839.64 1,607.54 137.03 199.80
Cashew Nut Shell Liquid KGS 1,687.77 0.55 2,092.36 0.88 6,611.49 3.02 4,150.78 1.47
Castor Oil KGS 107.21 0.22 38.37 0.40 223.82 0.76 48.05 0.25
Cereal Preparations TON 66.46 86.33 71.10 102.35 90.24 137.86 12.24 16.49
Cocoa Products KGS 63,611.90 229.67 71,257.55 228.51 87,593.24 263.14 14,433.88 42.37
Coffee KGS 78,041.34 138.20 77,217.05 154.73 82,772.39 137.67 12,833.96 20.16
Cotton Raw Incld. Waste TON 499.62 946.88 469.13 979.32 298.98 632.98 76.26 155.72
Dairy Products KGS 16,906.34 38.02 23,393.63 48.51 13,643.20 36.43 1,573.81 4.71
Floricltr Products KGS 5,568.39 19.96 6,241.10 21.16 6,374.48 24.97 1,974.59 12.27
Fresh Fruits TON 1,057.51 1,682.88 994.70 1,942.92 1,124.18 1,987.58 230.80 359.88
Fresh Vegetables TON 8.55 1.66 15.66 3.98 14.75 3.40 0.10 0.38
Fruits / Vegetable Seeds KGS 14,073.87 97.42 16,051.46 119.19 19,725.77 119.77 2,116.14 22.26
Groundnut TON 0.33 0.21 1.72 2.02 1.09 1.16 0.17 0.18
Guergam Meal TON 0.18 0.36 0.43 0.51 0.72 0.84 0.40 0.26
Marine Products KGS 52,015.03 94.37 44,713.34 123.06 56,933.36 155.70 10,170.18 32.35
Milled Products KGS 3,555.95 2.42 3,275.70 2.02 4,184.83 2.23 769.02 0.42
Misc Processed Items - 315.61 - 349.00 - 366.23 - 68.75
Mollases TON 13.84 1.35 72.85 10.76 4.47 0.20 8.30 0.33
Natural Rubber TON 426.19 652.57 469.76 829.15 582.35 873.26 66.65 99.03
Niger Seeds KGS 10,656.00 12.38 5,332.80 4.49 8,664.88 5.80 1,557.25 1.11
Oil Meals TON 550.43 145.30 485.96 115.83 504.00 125.26 103.37 24.17
Other Cereals TON 311.37 73.30 265.13 67.27 244.32 67.92 66.34 14.80
Other Meat TON 0.59 2.84 0.78 4.31 0.88 4.39 0.16 0.75
Other Oil Seeds TON 116.64 58.55 127.35 56.47 220.48 108.60 59.94 29.72
Poultry Products - 4.41 - 4.17 - 6.01 - 0.90
Processed Fruits And Juices KGS 42,993.07 81.73 53,585.04 124.78 59,120.53 129.68 12,198.75 20.60
Processed Meat TON 0.13 0.67 0.10 0.50 0.12 0.59 0.02 0.10
Processed Vegetables KGS 13,323.28 17.16 15,335.42 20.92 18,093.79 23.18 4,762.93 5.62
Pulses TON 6,609.49 4,244.13 5,607.53 2,908.33 2,527.88 1,140.76 418.94 176.66
Rice(Other Than Basmati) TON 1.14 1.08 2.12 1.89 6.87 4.56 0.77 0.71
Sesame Seeds KGS 69,028.83 65.88 26,269.59 27.40 87,538.04 124.23 44,687.80 64.22
Sheep/Goat Meat TON 0.13 1.27 0.22 2.07 0.12 1.55 0.04 0.45
Shellac KGS 459.61 2.01 466.92 2.85 640.96 2.75 186.95 0.73
Spices KGS 2,42,293.68 858.95 2,22,325.65 990.70 2,39,901.34 1,132.39 28,433.91 196.37
Sugar TON 2,146.15 1,021.81 2,402.98 936.52 1,490.61 449.02 77.43 26.22
Tea KGS 24,893.01 50.45 24,938.77 55.39 28,719.38 59.41 2,859.75 11.23
Tobacco Manufactured - 34.07 - 28.85 - 36.76 - 4.48
Tobacco Unmanufactured KGS 1,969.03 11.47 1,542.20 10.78 2,595.83 14.48 141.72 0.41
Vegetable Oils TON 14,007.39 10,892.75 15,361.02 11,637.48 15,019.30 9,890.32 2,489.63 1,540.35
Wheat TON 5,749.43 1,268.64 1,649.73 364.50 2.75 0.77 0.50 0.19
TOTAL 25,039.64 24,303.84 20,350.76 3,279.35
Source: DGCI&S
Annexure-III
Country-wise Details of Export and Import of Agricultural Commodities (Top 10 Countries)
A. Exports
Export in Million USD
Country 2016-17 2017-18 2018-19
U S A 3,648.58 4,643.83 4,581.16
VIETNAM SOC REP 4,327.88 5,280.10 3,703.01
IRAN 880.48 1,321.15 2,283.41
CHINA P RP 1,052.35 1,175.65 2,256.53
U ARAB EMTS 2,127.87 2,182.97 1,907.86
BANGLADESH PR 1,378.91 2,241.42 1,833.88
SAUDI ARAB 1,457.03 1,579.74 1,623.78
MALAYSIA 878.56 910.73 951.67
INDONESIA 733.94 652.87 948.83
NEPAL 837.04 874.83 913.34
OTHER COUNTRIES 15,960.78 17,562.24 17,735.64
Total of Agricultural Exports 33,283.41 38,425.52 38,739.10
B. Imports
Import in Million USD
Country of Import 2016-17 2017-18 2018-19
INDONESIA 4,808.58 5,745.44 4,067.45
UKRAINE 2,170.27 2,073.38 1,966.64
ARGENTINA 2,353.63 2,120.33 1,785.71
U S A 1,455.69 1,833.87 1,659.40
MALAYSIA 1,987.68 1,643.43 1,643.35
BRAZIL 1,454.45 1,382.66 950.04
SINGAPORE 55.43 57.95 638.18
U ARAB EMTS 362.53 362.53 636.20
VIETNAM SOC REP 382.88 419.10 470.48
COTE D'' IVOIRE 393.03 353.82 434.42
OTHER COUNTRIES 9,615.50 8,311.34 6,098.89
Total Import of Agricultural Products 25,039.64 24,303.84 20,350.76
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