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Industry Insight

HL Agro Assesses the Indian

Sesame Market Growth, Share &

Trade Prospects in 2021

esame seed is preferred world
over for its taste, aroma, colour,
Scrunchiness, and nutrients.
Considered as one of the wonder
foods of nature, sesame hosts an in-
credible array of nutrients including
50% fat, 23% carbohydrates, 18% pro-
tein and 12% dietary fi ber. Increas-
ingly, sesame seed usage has spread
beyond bread and confectionary to
a variety of food preparations as an
important food ingredient.

World sesame seed production is es-
timated at around 4. 8 million tons
with 10 countries - Myanmar, India,
China, Tanzania, Sudan, Ethiopia,
Nigeria, Burkina Faso, Uganda, and navirus-driven global trade disrup- showed sesame seed area jumped
Niger accounting for over 80% of the tions. Farmers from Gujarat from 18,887 hectares (ha) last year to a
production. Africa collectively ac- 58,178 ha this summer sowing season,
counts for over 45% of the crop and hopped onto the sesame-seed band- which usually begins in February. Ex-
in the last 10 years has grown in wagon this summer sowing season perts look at this rise in acreage as a
stature as a fast-growing supplier of with cultivation area of the oilseed promising bet made by farmers on the
sesame seed to the world market. rising by three times over the past oilseed with ample water availability
year. and favourable climate.
Of the global production, over two
million tons are exported every year The State Agriculture Department data
mainly to China (one million tons),
Japan (150,000 tons), Turkey (150,000 Sesame Season (Oct-19: Sep-20) MT
tons), European Union (150,000 tons), Carry Over 2019 25,000
South Korea (100,000 tons) and Viet-
nam (100,000 tons). USA, Saudi Ara- Winter Crop (13.1 Lakh Ha Sown) 240,000
bia, UAE are other importers. Natu- Summer Crop (Gujarat) 100,000
ral sesame seed and hulled are two
popular forms in which most of the Exports 293,000
trade takes place. Imports 148,000

INDIAN SESAME CROP 2020: Processing Loss (Hulled) 30,000
In a year of a record sowing and an Local Consumption 150,000
anticipated higher crop, the sesame
seed growers are staring at an un- Carry Over 2020 (Net Figure) 40,000
certain future following the coro-

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