European Commission (EC) has lowered the tolerance limit for tricyclazole, a fungicide used by most basmati rice growers across India, to 0.001 parts per million (ppm) from January 2018. This is bound to affect the exports of basmati rice from the country to the European Union (EU) this year. The Government of India is learned to have started putting up mitigation plans, which include helping farmers to switch to another fungicide, namely isoprothiolane, which is accepted across the EU. However, isoprothiolane is not accepted in the United States market. That is a cause for concern.