In the US, the move immediately sparked a rush to stock up on Sona Masoori rice, the variant favored by the Telugu and Tamil communities hailing from southern India, amid fears of a shortage.

While the ban does not affect exports of basmati rice or parboiled rice, it will impact several other varieties of rice including sona masoori, which is popular in southern Indian cuisine.

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Agtech start-up Svastha Ecoharvest is gearing up to export India’s first consignment of Sona Masoori brown rice to Europe. Such rice shipments so far have only been from the Basmati category.

A team of senior ministers, MPs and farmers from Karnataka will urge Prime Minister Manmohan Singh to lift the ban on export of sona masuri rice. In a letter to the PM earlier in the day ...

The Rice Exporters Association (TREA) has urged Commerce Minister Piyush Goyal to allow the export of Sona Masuri variety white rice under a different harmonized system of nomenclature (HSN ...

Leela Sai Krishna and Sowmya Reddy hold one of the five bags left of Sona Masoori rice left at Nawab's Indian Cuisine restaurant. (Jacob Barker/CBC) Parikh said that right now he's out of non ...

Free distribution of certified seed of Sona Masuri paddy will be done at Sarveshwar procurement facilitation centre under this program," the company said in its annual report. The distribution will ...