Agricultural products contributed around 9% of the total of over $400 billion worth of goods exported from India last year. [...] Last year, we exported 9.75 million tonnes of rice, of which around three million tonnes was the premium basmati variety. [...] Europe accounts for just 3% of the total basmati exported from India. More than 70% of our exports go to Gulf countries, which have to get their supplies from India to meet their full requirement. [...] they do not even mandate labelling of food items for GM ingredients. Analysis shows that more than 96% of our basmati exports are to such countries that will not be affected by allowing GM rice trials.