The Bharat International Rice Conference (BIRC) 2026 will open at Bharat Mandapam in New Delhi tomorrow, October 23, with 32,467 registrations, including 4,856 buyers from 153 countries, the conference organisers said on Thursday.
Source: ANI via Latestly
The three-day conference, running from October 23 to 25, will bring together exporters, importers, millers, policymakers and food businesses to explore new markets, assess the 2027 rice price outlook and examine opportunities to improve returns across the industry.
The event will feature 65 speakers and nine knowledge sessions, with 2,038 business-to-business meetings already scheduled through the BIRC digital platform. Participants from 23 Indian states will connect the country's rice-producing, processing and trading centres with international buyers, and exhibition space has been fully sold out for the second consecutive year.
The final registration figures mark a sharp rise from the numbers reported earlier this week, when the organisers had recorded 4,649 buyer registrations from more than 150 countries and more than 180 companies set to participate.
Source: The Hindu BusinessLine
32,467 registrations means more than 32 thousand people have signed up; 4,856 buyers from 153 countries means buyers from most of the world are coming to Delhi to talk about buying Indian rice.
"With 2,038 meetings already scheduled, the focus is on meaningful business engagement from the start," said Dev Garg, National Vice President of the Indian Rice Exporters Federation (IREF). "The next chapter of India's rice trade must be about creating more value, not simply selling more tonnes," he added.
The EY team will coordinate one-to-one buyer-seller meetings during the conference, facilitating discussions on sourcing requirements, rice varieties, quality specifications and potential orders, the organisers said. The conference is organised by the Indian Rice Exporters Federation.