India’s beef exports – primarily buffalo meat – plunged 21 per cent year-on-year to 1.10 million tonnes in 2018, compared to the 1.39 million tonnes recorded in 2017, as beef shipments to China (via Vietnam) plummeted in the latter months of the year, according to official data analysed by Salaam Gateway.
India’s beef exports revenues dropped to $3.31 billion in 2018 from $4.17 billion in the previous year, according to foreign trade data from the Director General of Commercial Intelligence and Statistics (DGCIS), Ministry of Commerce and Industry.
The primary culprit for the weaker performance was a 32 per cent year-on-year drop in beef supply to Vietnam in 2018. The Southeast Asian country, which accounted for more than half of India’s total beef export in fiscal year 2017, imported 522,546 million tonnes of Indian beef in 2018, in comparison to 767,044 million tonnes in 2017.
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Syed Ameen Kader, White Paper Media