India’s Agriculture Export – USD 50 billion

Current Context: Directorate General of Commercial Intelligence and Statistics recently released provisional figures for agricultural export for FY 22.

• The Agri export has touched USD 50.21 billion.
• Growth of 19.92% from FY21 figures.
• This is also the highest level of agricultural export ever achieved by India.
• Wheat has recorded an unprecedented growth of more than 273%, jumping nearly four-fold from USD 568 million in 2020-21 to USD 2119 million in 2021-22.

Question:

Q.1 The export of Wheat has seen a growth of ___ percent in FY 22 from the previous year.
a. 253%
b. 263%
c. 273%
d. 283%