India’s non-basmati rice export jumped 34% over a year before in the period between April 2017 (start of the earlier financial year) and January 2018. The prime reason given is that Africa’s import demand shifted to here from Thailand, on cost competitiveness. Basmati export, however, remained stable. India non-basmati export at 7.01 million tonnes worth nearly $2.89 billion for these 10 months, compared to 5.25 mt valued at $1.97 billion in the same period a year before.