{"id":474286,"date":"2025-12-27T04:53:17","date_gmt":"2025-12-27T04:53:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/474286\/"},"modified":"2025-12-27T04:53:17","modified_gmt":"2025-12-27T04:53:17","slug":"us-makhana-prices-double-with-tariffs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/474286\/","title":{"rendered":"US Makhana Prices Double With Tariffs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>NEW DELHI <\/strong> \u2013 A pack of foxnuts (Makhana) weighing about 25 grams, which used to cost $2, has doubled to $4 in recent months in the US, due to tariffs squeezing household budgets, a report has said.\u00a0The 50 percent tariffs on Indian imports have hit sales, with exporters to the US seeing shipments slump by as much as 40 percent.<\/p>\n<p>Indian fox nut exporters, however, have found alternate markets.\u00a0Al Jazeera cited a Denver-based leather garment trader, originally hailing from Kolkata, saying that his monthly grocery budget rose to $900 from $500 before the pandemic, specifically mentioning the price rise in fox nuts or Makhana.<\/p>\n<p>Foxnut exporters are exploring demand from new markets, like Spain and South Africa, driven by the Indian diaspora and awareness of the health benefits of foxnuts.\u00a0India exported about 800 metric tons of fox nuts in 2024\u201325 to markets including Germany, China, the US,\u00a0and the Middle East, with the US accounting for half of those exports.<\/p>\n<p>The sector is limited to the Indian diaspora in the international market.\u00a0There is a need to spread more awareness about it both domestically and abroad, according to Satyajit Singh, whose company, Shakti Sudha Agro Ventures, controls half of India\u2019s total exports of the health food.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0India is the largest producer of makhana in the world, accounting for nearly 80 percent of global production.\u00a0Bihar remains the backbone of the country\u2019s makhana output, contributing around 85 percent of national production, with Darbhanga one of the key hubs for cultivation and processing. (IANS)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"NEW DELHI \u2013 A pack of foxnuts (Makhana) weighing about 25 grams, which used to cost $2, has&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":474287,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[64,79,990,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-474286","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-economy","8":"tag-business","9":"tag-economy","10":"tag-food","11":"tag-united-states","12":"tag-unitedstates","13":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115789745808767405","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/474286","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=474286"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/474286\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/474287"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=474286"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=474286"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=474286"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}