India plans to grow exports of dairy products (and not only)

With cow’s milk production expected to increase in 2022 (+2.1%) as well as other types of milk such as buffalo, sheep and goat’s milk (+ 2.4%, source USDA), India aims to export to Countries in SouthEast Asia and Middle East and Northern Africa.

CLAL.it - Milk Balance Sheet Season 2022

CLAL.it – Milk Balance Sheet Season 2022

India is a subcontinent with an area almost 11 times larger than Italy, self-sufficient in the dairy sector (100.2%), with a per capita consumption of drinking milk which in 2021 rose to 54.1 liters per capita. Despite being one of the most populous countries in the world, with about 1.4 billion inhabitants, Indian agri-food exports amount to about 50 billion euros overall, about the same as Italy.

India’s ambition is to establish itself as an exporting country, in particular of Butter and other fats, mainly destined for the United Arab Emirates, Saudi Arabia, Indonesia, Oman, Bahrain, Morocco and Qatar, Fat Filled Milk Powder (FFMP), mainly exported to Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, Malaysia, UAE, but also US and UK, SMP, which mainly finds its way to Bangladesh.

Between January and February 2022 total exports of Indian dairy products grew by 41.6% compared to the same period of the previous year, which grew by 82.9% compared to January-February 2020, despite being a period held back by the spread of Covid, which claimed several victims in India.

For the first time, in 2022, Indian dairy exports exceeded 30,000 tons in the first two months of the year.

Overall, foreign sales of dairy products reached 150,000 tons in 2021.

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CEREALS

Thanks to the favorable climate season, cereal crops are encouraging exports, which have been consistently on positive tracks since the beginning of 2020.

The first two items of Indian cereal exports are Rice (+46% exports in 2021 compared to 2020) and Wheat (+ 453.1% exports in 2021 compared to the previous year), a trend that kept positive also over the first two months of 2022 (+2% the export of rice in quantity and + 123% the export of wheat, the latter with an even more impressive boom in value: + 162.7%).

Among the main countries of destination for rice we find China, Nepal, Iran, Benin, Ivory Coast and Sri Lanka, while the Indian wheat trade routes are Bangladesh (with a market share of 50%), Sri Lanka, Indonesia, South Korea and Philippines.

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The agrarian reform, strongly contested by farmers, was filed last November as India aims, on the one hand, to strengthen  the technologies for agriculture development and the spreading of solutions for agri-food products’ conservation. On the other hand, the Country aims to accelerate infrastructural growth, a key element for the transport of foodstuffs both within India and abroad.

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  1. […] L'Inde est un sous-continent d'une superficie presque 11 fois plus grande que l'Italie, autosuffisante dans le secteur laitier (100,2%), avec une consommation de lait de consommation par habitant qui s'est élevée en 2021 à 54,1 litres par habitant… L'Inde a pour ambition de s'imposer comme un pays exportateur, notamment de Beurre et autres matières grasses, principalement à destination des Emirats Arabes Unis, de l'Arabie Saoudite, de l'Indonésie, d'Oman, de Bahreïn, du Maroc et du Qatar, de Poudres grasses (FFMP), principalement exporté au Bangladesh, au Sri Lanka, en Malaisie, aux Émirats arabes unis, mais aussi aux États-Unis et au Royaume-Uni, et de SMP, qui trouve principalement son chemin vers le Bangladesh.  […]