A consignment of rice has been officially flagged off on May 3, 2021 from the Paradip International Cargo Terminal (PICT), Odisha to Vietnam.
- This is the first time in the history of Paradip Port, non-basmati rice will be exported. Sarala foods group will ship 20 containers of rice on Tuesday followed by around 500 containers over the next three months from PICT to Vietnam.
- A consignment of one of the Agricultural and Processed Food Products Exports Development Authority (APEDA)’s member exporter Sarala Food was shipped to Hai Phong port, Vietnam on May 4, 2021.
- The rice exports through PICT would hugely boost India’s exports of non-basmati rice to south-east countries while boosting income of at least two lakh farmers from Odisha and adjoining states.
- Non-basmati rice exports to African and Asian countries are undertaken from various ports of India such as Kakinada, Vishakhapatnam, Chennai, Mundra and Krishnapatnam. Paradip will soon emerge as one of the major rice-exporting port of the country.
