{"id":22476,"date":"2025-05-16T10:27:21","date_gmt":"2025-05-16T10:27:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.selinawamucii.com\/news\/?p=22476"},"modified":"2025-05-16T10:30:41","modified_gmt":"2025-05-16T10:30:41","slug":"short-season-basmati-acreage-in-india-up-courtesy-firm-prices","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.selinawamucii.com\/news\/2025\/05\/16\/short-season-basmati-acreage-in-india-up-courtesy-firm-prices\/","title":{"rendered":"Short-season basmati acreage in India up courtesy firm prices"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

India\u2019s annual basmati sowing area will expand by 10% as farmers rush to plant short-season varieties to maximize favorable\u00a0pricing<\/u><\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Satish Goel, head of All India Rice Exporters Association (AIREA), forecasts 7 to 10%<\/u><\/a> seasonal expansion for the short crop.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

As a June to September\u00a0Kharif<\/em>\u00a0grain,\u00a0short-duration basmati enjoys the advantage of a quick maturity cycle that suits demand shifts.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Maturing in 4 months or 25 days early, the short-season type has been reaping an export windfall beginning late 2024.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

This has helped India cash in on a global demand surge, which has increased exports of \u201c1509\u201d and \u201c1718\u201d basmati cultivars.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

India shipped 6 million tonnes of basmati in the 2024-25 season, a significant annual increase. The tonnage rise attended the scrapping of the minimum export price cap<\/u><\/a> in September 2024, following a productive monsoon.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Along with the international import surge, home customers have witnessed basmati prices rice to 52-58 rupees<\/u><\/a> ($0.61-0.68) a kg.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Notably, retail prices have not maximized to the pre-harvest time rates of 62 rupees ($0.72) a kg in September 2024.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The current increments began in March 2025, which rules out the India-Pakistan border conflict of May as a cause.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Also favoring the price trend is the changing of hands in acreage between short- and long-season aromatic varieties.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

As of 2024, short-duration cultivars occupied 46.3%<\/u><\/a> of the basmati area in India while long-duration rivals represented 53.7%. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Long season paddy is also losing out in cultivated area to the fast-cycle alternative for cash competitiveness reasons. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

This shift is true of the leading cultivation belt, namely Punjab, whose basmati acreage is roughly 1\/3rd<\/sup> of the national area.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Therefore, India looks to extend its decade-long global lead in basmati exports as the basmati acreage grows this\u00a0kharif<\/em>. For more information on the short-season basmati sector of India, skim the below statistics.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

India Short-season Basmati Statistics<\/strong><\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Basmati, an aromatic long-grain type, is India\u2019s main premium rice export. The country reaps 70% of the global basmati output, according to Expert Market Research.<\/u><\/a>  Helping increase this production are rising world-beating exports by India at 5.94 million tonnes<\/u><\/a> (2024-25).  This has, in turn, sparked the cultivation of short season (125-day maturity) basmati. Experts expect this surge to increase the total basmati area to over 3 million hectares<\/u><\/a> (ha), above 2024-25\u2019s 2.88 million ha. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

What is the acreage of short<\/strong>–<\/strong>season basmati in India<\/strong>? <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Out of the 2.88 million ha under basmati in India in 2024, 1.33 million hectares<\/u><\/a> supported short-duration basmati. The acreage represented 46.3% of the national basmati area, with long season varieties taking the lion\u2019s share at 53.7%.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Are basmati exports represent<\/strong>at<\/strong>ive for India\u2019s economy<\/strong>?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

With basmati foreign trade growing significantly in 2024, the sector is increasingly fostering the economy. In the 2024-25 season, all basmati exports represented 1.34%<\/u><\/a> of the national exports across all industries. The national press office<\/u><\/a> puts basmati revenue at $4.018 billion per year, for the 2020-21 period. This is roughly the same revenue of all other rice types together, including white rice, at $4.796 billion (2020-21). <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Which states produce most basmati (both short and long season)<\/strong>? <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Punjab had 1 million ha of basmati area in 2024, with Haryana next at 970,000 ha. Rounding up the top 3 was western Uttar Pradesh at 810,000 ha.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

India\u2019s annual basmati sowing area will expand by 10% as farmers rush to plant short-season varieties to maximize favorable\u00a0pricing. Satish Goel, head of All India Rice Exporters Association (AIREA), forecasts 7 to 10% seasonal expansion for the short crop. As a June to September\u00a0Kharif\u00a0grain,\u00a0short-duration basmati enjoys the advantage of a quick maturity cycle that suits demand shifts….<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":18910,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"\nShort-season basmati acreage in India up courtesy firm prices - Selina Wamucii | Food & Agriculture News<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.selinawamucii.com\/news\/2025\/05\/16\/short-season-basmati-acreage-in-india-up-courtesy-firm-prices\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Short-season basmati acreage in India up courtesy firm prices - Selina Wamucii | Food & Agriculture News\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"India\u2019s annual basmati sowing area will expand by 10% as farmers rush to plant short-season varieties to maximize favorable\u00a0pricing. 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