Non Basmati Rice Export Data 2026: Top Buyers & HS Codes

India shipped 15.15 million tonnes of non-basmati rice in calendar 2025 — up 25% in a year, inside a 21.55-million-tonne total rice trade that grew 19.4% (IREF). Not bad for a product that was illegal to ship two years earlier. The white-rice ban of July 2023 came off in September 2024, the last curb died in March 2025, and the non basmati rice export engine restarted at full throttle. The record itself matters less than the map underneath it: five countries — Benin, Guinea, Côte d'Ivoire, Togo and Bangladesh — took 44% of the volume (ThePrint).

Most rice shippers in Kakinada, Raipur or Karnal read that list as geography. It's a call sheet. Each lane is built from individual importers whose purchase history sits in shipment records, cargo by cargo, with volumes and dates. Here's what the numbers say, and how to work them.

What does the latest non basmati rice export data show?

Three things: record volume, heavy Africa concentration, and thin unit prices. The official FY2024-25 count from APEDA is 14,128,966 tonnes of non-basmati rice worth ₹55,408 crore ($6,527.64 million) (APEDA). That made non-basmati 70% of India's rice export volume but only 48% of its value — this is a tonnage business, not a premium one (ThePrint). Calendar 2025 ran hotter still: 15.15 million tonnes of non-basmati, alongside a basmati record of 6.4 million tonnes, on domestic production of 150.18 million tonnes (IREF).

The forward numbers keep climbing. The Indian Rice Exporters Federation projects FY2025-26 shipments of 23.5 million tonnes, up 16%, while USDA's estimate sits near 25 million tonnes (ThePrint). Indian rice already lands in 172 countries.

"In the current fiscal year, rice exports are likely to grow by 16 percent, and we are targeting to export 30 million tonnes of rice in 2026-27." — Dev Garg, Vice President, Indian Rice Exporters Federation

For an exporter, the takeaway is blunt: supply is unconstrained, policy is open, and the fight has moved entirely to winning buyers.

Non basmati rice export ban: what changed between 2022 and 2026?

Every restriction imposed during the 2022-23 food-inflation scare has been unwound. The full timeline, verified against DGFT notifications and trade reporting:

A bumper 2024 kharif crop and swollen government stocks forced the reversal (S&P Global). The scar tissue matters. Cotonou and Dhaka buyers spent 14 months sourcing from Thailand, Pakistan and Myanmar; exporters who kept those relationships warm through the ban won the restart.

Which countries import the most non-basmati rice from India?

Benin imports the most Indian non-basmati rice — $1,025 million in FY2024-25, a 15.7% share — ahead of Guinea ($536M), Côte d'Ivoire ($520M), Togo ($422M) and Bangladesh ($359M). Those five took 44% of India's non-basmati volume (Tradologie, ThePrint). The FY2024-25 ranking by value:

1. Benin: $1,025.4 million (15.71%)
2. Guinea: $536.0 million (8.21%)
3. Côte d'Ivoire: $520.3 million (7.97%)
4. Togo: $421.5 million (6.46%)
5. Bangladesh: $358.8 million (5.50%)

The Benin lane shows how fast this trade snapped back. Between October 2024 and January 2025 India moved 753,463 tonnes of non-basmati rice to Benin — against 119,225 tonnes in the same window a year earlier, a six-fold jump that left Cotonou's market working through a supply glut by April (S&P Global). Ports like Cotonou distribute across the whole hinterland, so import appetite runs far beyond domestic consumption — and the importer names behind those flows are worth knowing individually.

Non-basmati rice HS codes: 100630 and the lines under it

Milled rice ships under six-digit HS 100630 worldwide. India's 8-digit ITC-HS schedule then splits the head: 10063010 is parboiled rice, 10063020 is basmati, and 10063090 is everything else — the IR-64, Swarna, Sona Masuri and other non-basmati white grades APEDA tracks (EximGuru, APEDA). Broken rice sits apart under 10064000; paddy and husked brown rice fill out heading 1006.

The split decides what you see in any trade database. Query 10063090 alone and you miss the parboiled trade, which is most of the Africa business; query "rice" as text and basmati noise drowns the result. Run 10063010 and 10063090 together, then segment by destination. If the code system is new to you, start with our guide to what an HS code is and how to use it — and note that the premium trade has its own playbook in our basmati rice export data guide.

Parboiled rice export and the Bangladesh lane

Parboiled rice never faced an outright ban — only the 20% duty, cut to 10% in September 2024 and zeroed a month later. That made 10063010 the continuity lane while white rice was locked out, and it stayed the workhorse after reopening. Bangladesh is its swing buyer. Hit by floods and a production shortfall, Bangladesh's rice imports exploded roughly 26-fold in its FY2024-25 to $682.4 million per Bangladesh Bank data (New Age) — about 1.44 million tonnes, the highest since FY18 (The Daily Star) — with government tenders like the 200,000-tonne parboiled purchase going largely to Indian suppliers (IREF).

Practitioners treat Bangladesh as two markets: tender cargo moving on price through the big trading houses, and private importers buying smaller parcels year-round via land ports and Kakinada sea freight. The second group pays for reliability — and it's where a mid-size miller can win, if it can identify who's buying.

Can Indian rice stay price-competitive in 2026?

This is the flip side of the volume boom. In October 2025, Indian non-basmati white rice quoted around $366/tonne FOB while Myanmar offered $309 and Pakistan $320–325, both helped by weak currencies (Rice News Today). In price-sensitive African markets a $57 gap loses tenders. India's counters are scale, parboiled quality and freight economics — but for an individual exporter the workable lever is the channel itself.

A $57-a-tonne gap to Myanmar doesn't close at the mandi. It closes when you cut two intermediaries out and quote the importer direct.

Exporters who quote CFR into Cotonou or Chattogram work backwards from the buyer's landed cost, not forwards from the local mandi price. Doing that requires knowing the actual buyer — which brings us to the data.

How ShipScout helps non basmati rice exporters find buyers

ShipScout is a global trade-intelligence platform: 11 billion-plus shipment records across 240+ countries, built as an affordable alternative to Panjiva and ImportGenius. It helps Indian rice exporters find and vet buyers with data-backed targeting, working from mirrored licensed trade data for India-linked trade. The rice workflow:

• Search HS 10063090 and 10063010 together. See which importers are receiving non-basmati and parboiled rice right now, and at what cadence. Start in the company directory.
• Rank buyers inside one lane. A Bangladesh importer clearing parcels monthly beats ten one-off tender names — sort by volume, work the top of the list.
• Vet before you ship on credit. A buyer's real shipment history is the cheapest due diligence there is; here's how to verify a trade partner before money moves.
• Open with specifics. Reference the buyer's own recent volumes and grades in your first email — the full approach is in our food & agro buyer guide.

The 2025 non basmati rice export numbers proved demand is back and policy is stable. The buyer list behind those 15 million tonnes is already written — Start a free trial and search HS 100630 to read it.