00:00Piles of humble peanuts lie under the open sky in Bikaner's Agriculture Produce Marketing
00:12Committee Monday waiting for buyers amid an unexpected crisis that has hit groundnut
00:18exporters in Rajasthan. Indonesia and a few other countries have temporarily suspended
00:25imports of Indian groundnuts over concerns that the crop has been affected by aflatoxin,
00:31a type of fungus.
00:34Aflatoxin is a kind of fungus and it is called hollow heart and in the local language it is
00:47called Tiki. In this area the quality of the groundnut is down and it is also seen in export.
00:57Some of our containers are also exposed to that because the crop will be affected.
01:03Exporters in Bikaner are not taking the setback lightly, pointing out that nearly 60% of the
01:08peanuts exported from India are shipped to three Southeast Asian countries.
01:13From the overall Indian perspective and Rajasthan perspective, the export will definitely be
01:21in Indonesia or other countries, if there is one or two countries, which have suppressed
01:25them, will be affected by this. In India, the export will be affected by the overall
01:29wufli-dana export in Indonesia, Vietnam and Philippines. These are 30-60% and the rest of the world
01:38are in Russia, Europe and non-European countries.
01:45The Bikaner division alone accounts for two-thirds of the groundnuts grown in Rajasthan and exporters
01:52say that the absence of exports will lead to oversupply and a fall in prices.
01:59Traders are calling for strengthened storage facilities as the fungal contamination occurs
02:05due to excess moisture when groundnuts are harvested and improperly stored.
02:10In the region, there are about 16-17,000,000 tons of crop. There are about 12,000,000 tons of
02:16mufli in the Bikaner division. There are about 65% of the crop. There is a hope that I have
02:25told you that last year, there should be about 300-500 rupes of mufli. It should be
02:31down below. If it will be removed from the export, it will not be removed from the
02:35export, or it will not be removed from the proper way. If you try to scale up the infrastructure,
02:40if you try to improve the needs of the exporters, then there will be a negative impact. And
02:47somewhere else, I think, we should talk about government agencies.
02:52The Agriculture Department says it has been making efforts to educate farmers and traders on
02:57how to tackle aflatoxin.
03:02the government agencies are doing it differently.
03:06We have also been working on a workshop with a progressive farmer and exporter. We have
03:15given them the knowledge that the effect of aflatoxin will be reduced by less than
03:19the amount of the cost of aflatoxin.
03:20Our field staff is also working on the market to protect farmers from the
03:23population of the population of the population of the population of the population of the population.
03:28exporters are now urging the government to take up the issue with the Southeast Asian nations
03:35and assure them that the quality of the majority of the groundnut crop is not a matter of concern
03:41so that the temporary import ban can be lifted. Without this, peanut farmers and
03:47traders in Rajasthan are staring at massive losses this year.
03:58you
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