# Explained: In Covid-19 pandemic, here are four food records | Explained News - The Indian Express

> Indian food stocks, procurement, PDS offtake and foodgrain exports reached multi-year highs over the past year during the Covid-19 pandemic. Record government warehouse stocks of rice and wheat underpin the export surge.

- Date: 2021-06-13 · published 2021-06-13T12:00:00.000Z
- Category: report · region India · magnitude low
- Page: https://feedsoft.ai/events/46515-explained-in-covid-19-pandemic-here-are-four-food-records-explained-news-the
- Commodities: [Rough Rice](https://feedsoft.ai/c/RICE.md), [Wheat (SRW)](https://feedsoft.ai/c/WHEAT.md)

## Why it matters

Large Indian public grain stocks add ample supply that caps global rice and wheat prices, while record exports reflect strong outbound demand.

## Read by commodity

- RICE: neutral
- WHEAT: neutral

## Similar past events

| Commodity | Date | Event | 5-day % | 20-day % |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| RICE | 2025-11-11 | [India’s lifting of rice export ban helped cool global food prices, says WTO \| Today News](https://feedsoft.ai/events/21916-india-s-lifting-of-rice-export-ban-helped-cool-global-food-prices-says-wto.md) | +3.1% | -0.3% |
| RICE | 2020-03-30 | [U.S rice imports in 2019 are projected at a record high for third consecutive year \| Economic Research Service](https://feedsoft.ai/events/54209-u-s-rice-imports-in-2019-are-projected-at-a-record-high-for-third-consecutive.md) | +4.2% | +21.5% |
| RICE | 2020-11-16 | [Cambodia: Food Price Update - September/October 2020. Focus: Effect of the COVID-19 outbreak on food prices - Cambodia \| ReliefWeb](https://feedsoft.ai/events/50241-cambodia-food-price-update-september-october-2020-focus-effect-of-the-covid-19.md) | +3.4% | +3.0% |
| RICE | 2023-03-28 | [Food Security Update \| World Bank Response to Rising Food Insecurity \| Netherlands for the World Bank](https://feedsoft.ai/events/36757-food-security-update-world-bank-response-to-rising-food-insecurity-netherlands.md) | -4.2% | -5.2% |
| RICE | 2023-10-22 | [Mint Primer: Making sense of India’s record food production \| Mint](https://feedsoft.ai/events/33583-mint-primer-making-sense-of-india-s-record-food-production-mint.md) | +2.4% | +9.9% |
| WHEAT | 2024-01-05 | [Global food prices fell in 2023 compared to 2022, except for sugar and rice \| PBS News](https://feedsoft.ai/events/6743-global-food-prices-fell-in-2023-compared-to-2022-except-for-sugar-and-rice-pbs.md) | -2.2% | -2.1% |
| WHEAT | 2022-02-15 | [Canola Seed, Oil and Meal Play Key Role in Record Value of Saskatchewan Agri-Food Exports \| Country 600 CJWW](https://feedsoft.ai/events/42680-canola-seed-oil-and-meal-play-key-role-in-record-value-of-saskatchewan-agri.md) | +1.8% | +12.3% |
| WHEAT | 2017-12-17 | [Foodgrain production to remain at last year's record level in 2018 \| Commodity - Food & Edible Oils - Business Standard](https://feedsoft.ai/events/67456-foodgrain-production-to-remain-at-last-year-s-record-level-in-2018-commodity.md) | +0.3% | +0.8% |

## Sources

- indianexpress.com: https://indianexpress.com/article/explained/explained-covid-19-pandemic-food-grains-rice-wheat-public-distribution-system-7357653/

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