Japan is now looking at India to export non Basmati rice in the wake of suspended imports from USA after long grain rice tested positive for trace amounts of a genetically modified strain not approved for human consumption.

According to Indian authorities, India was in a positioned to sell 300,000 to 400,000 MT of non-basmati rice to Japan. Japan has been slowly opening up to Indian trade as recently it allowed the imports of Indian mangoes.

Although India has never exported rice to Japan, observers feel that there is a huge opportunity for India to tap and export non-basmati rice to Japan in the wake of US rice ban.