{"id":209676,"date":"2022-10-07T20:19:04","date_gmt":"2022-10-07T14:49:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?p=209676"},"modified":"2022-10-08T08:21:02","modified_gmt":"2022-10-08T02:51:02","slug":"rice-insecurity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/rice-insecurity\/","title":{"rendered":"Rice insecurity"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Source<\/strong>– The post is based on the article \u201cRice insecurity\u201d <\/strong>published in The Indian Express <\/strong>on 7th October 2022<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

Syllabus: <\/strong>GS3- Agriculture<\/p>\n

Relevance<\/strong>– Agriculture marketing and pricing<\/p>\n

News- <\/strong>The article explains the issues with the current government move to ban the export of rice. It also tells about the challenges for long-term sustainability of rice cultivation.<\/p>\n

Government wants to regulate domestic prices and safeguard food security through this move.<\/p>\n

What will be the impact of export ban on rice?<\/strong><\/h5>\n

India exports rice to more than 130 countries. It constitutes 40% of global rice trade. Further 90 per cent of rice production across the world is consumed domestically. As a result, any small change in exports and imports has an enormous impact on prices.<\/p>\n

The export uncertainties will affect the credibility of Indian exporters and create a disincentive for future exports. It will enable buyers to shift towards other major rice-exporting countries.<\/p>\n

The export restriction may lead to fall in prices. It will impact Indian farmers.<\/p>\n

India\u2019s export restrictions will adversely affect several low-income and low-middle-income countries like Bangladesh, Senegal, Nepal. These are among the largest importers of Indian rice.<\/p>\n

What are the challenges for long-term sustainability of rice cultivation?<\/strong><\/h5>\n

Around 49 per cent of rice cultivation depends on groundwater. It is depleting rapidly. As per the FAO data<\/strong>, agricultural water withdrawal as a percentage of total available renewable water resources has increased from 26.7% in 1993 to 36% in 2022. The total per capita renewable water resources have also declined from 1909 cubic metres to 1412 cubic metres during this period.<\/p>\n

Rice exports are leading to an indirect export of water to other countries. It is known as the virtual water trade.<\/strong><\/p>\n

The MSP regime<\/strong> is not sustainable. It is mainly available for wheat and rice. Further there is a skewed distribution towards selected states like Punjab and Haryana. The cost of cultivation in India is also increasing, and hence there will be a need for a higher MSP to make production remunerative<\/p>\n

India\u2019s rice yield is also lower than the world average.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Source– The post is based on the article \u201cRice insecurity\u201d published in The Indian Express on 7th October 2022. Syllabus: GS3- Agriculture Relevance– Agriculture marketing and pricing News- The article explains the issues with the current government move to ban the export of rice. It also tells about the challenges for long-term sustainability of rice… Continue reading Rice insecurity<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10320,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1230,9],"tags":[216,10500],"class_list":["post-209676","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-9-pm-daily-articles","category-public","tag-gs-paper-3","tag-indian-express","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":0,"cached_at":"","cached_date":1704936480},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209676","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10320"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=209676"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209676\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=209676"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=209676"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=209676"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}