- Second in world rice production (1,36,580 thousand tonnes)
- First in world pulses production (18 million tonnes)
- Second in world flour production (75 million metric tonnes)
- Third in food grains production (218 million metric tonnes)
Rice is the staple food
for more than half of the world population. About 90 percent of the world’s rice is
produces in Asia, out of which 20 percent of the world’s rice is produced in India.
Total production of rice in India is 13,65,80,000 tonnes, 65 percent is consumed and
35 percent exported.
The pulses milling
is a major milling industry in India, next only to rice and flour milling. For
India’s 1.2 billion people, pulses contribute a large proportion of the family’s protein needs, much more than milk, eggs or meat. In
2010-11 India produced 18.1 million tonnes of pulses and consumed 21 million tonnes.
The balance was imported from countries such as Canada, Myanmar and China. In
an estimate by the World Health Organization, every Indian needs 80 grams of
pulses every day to meet his or her protein needs. This implies that by the
year 2018, India will require 38 million tonnes of pulses to meet its
population’s nutritional requirements.
India has the largest
area in the world under wheat. However, in terms of production, the country is only the
third largest behind EU-25 and China. India produces about 70-75 million tonnes
of wheat flour a year. There are around 1,200 flour mills in India out of which
200 large flourmills, with a milling capacity of around 15 million tonnes.
ISRMAX Rice & Grain
Expo 2012 will focus on the complete value chain and will provide the industry with plethora of
opportunities to connect the service providers with the end users specifically
in rice and grain industry.
Grain & Feed Milling Technology magazine will be joined on stand D-40 by Silos Cordoba, Bruker Optic and Schenck Process. Drop by to read the latest issue of the magazine, leran more baout hwat we do so just to say hi.
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| rice (Photo credit: tamaki) |
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