Telangana’s rice exports have fallen 20-30 per cent in 2025 due to high procurement costs and collapsing domestic demand amid subsidised PDS rice. Millers warn of losing global market share unless State policies and milling costs are urgently reviewed
Hyderabad: Telangana’s rice export industry is finding itself in a tailspin of late. Millers are claiming to have slashed shipments by an estimated 20-30 per cent in 2025 due to inflated procurement costs.
The crisis, compounded by a collapse in domestic demand from the government’s subsidised fine rice distribution through the public distribution system (PDS), threatens Telangana’s ambitious target of exporting 50-60 lakh tons annually to emerging markets like Indonesia and Africa. Export markets are fast drying up amid high costs and global competition, said a rice miller and exporter from Nizamabad.
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