I think everyone understands what exports is. Why would anyone confuse it with production. That would be dumb man. I will try to look for an aggregated source or will have to find it individually. Let me try.
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Also the 2019 figures would be atleast 20-25% more. And the export is to more than 120 countries across europe, america and southeast asia.
They export a lot of volume in specific sectors yes, but thats because they are low cost in comparison to other countries, that doesnt mean that the world is dependant on them, in most of these industries the next largest exporters are close in terms of output and are also spread out across the world (e.g. NA, Europe, Asia), meaning that if export did stop it wouldnt be difficult for importers to quickly find alternate sources. In terms of total output across all sectors though there are other countries that are far ahead.
Lets look at Rice exports which make up the largest volume. The most populated and at-risk of food scarcity regions in the world are Africa and Asia.
Nigeria is the largest largest buyer of rice in 2018
Rice imports in Nigeria:
Pakistan - 31%
India - 21%
China - 18%
Cameroon - 17%
- Next is small Benin (11 million population) who actually do depend on Indian rice imports so i will give you that
- Next is Madagascar where India does not export any significant amount.
In Asia the single largest importer of Rice in the world is China who make up a colossal 42% of the Asian rice imports.
- The largest supplier of rice to China is Myanmar who make up 99.6% of their total rice imports.
- Next is S.Korea where India does not export any significant amount.
- Next is Turkey where India does not export any significant amount.
The only nation in Asia dependant on Indian exports was Nepal (26 million population).
The results speak for themselves. There would be no food scarcity crisis if India shut exports, since they clearly dont have a monopoly on food exports and because there arent any large populated countries dependent on imports from India.