Karan Chanana heads Amira Foods in India, the largest rice exporter in the country. He points to Agriculture Minister Pawar's awareness of the sugar sector, which allowed him to decide that now is the best time for India to export sugar given tight global availability and high prices. Chanana argues that this type of aware, dynamic decision making is needed for other commodities. Under Chanana's leadership, Amira Foods has transformed from a family-run business into a professionally managed company with a turnover of $240 million last year.

1. Amira Foods (India) Ltd - Karan Chanana
Points out Karan Chanana who heads AMIRA Foods , referring to the panel under chief economist
Kaushik Basu set up by the PM to come up with quick responses to food sector price and production
problems, “Minister Pawar is well clued into the sugar sector.
That allowed him to take stock of the fact that in over two decades, this is the first time that global
availability is tight and prices high and since India’s sugar output estimates are high, this is the best time
to export.
We need that sort of awared, dynamic decision making for individual commodities in the food sector.
Karan A Chanana, Chairman, AMIRA FOODS makes a case in point –he states “The AMIRA Group; with
this investment in place we are now aiming to be fully backward integrated in our Supply Chain
Management.
Running a 95 year old company, whose supply chain straddles five continents, requires an appetite for
innovation and growth. Karan A. Chanana, Group Managing Director for AMIRA Foods, India’s largest
rice exporter, has displayed that he has the stomach for much of this. Since he took over the reins of the
AMIRA Group, which also has interests in infrastructure, energy and special economic zones, the
company has morphed from a family-run business to a professionally-managed unit.
Karan A Chanana has steered the Group from a family-run operation into a professionally managed
business unit. Today the company, "Amira Foods (India) Ltd." has attained a turnover of USD$ 240
million in last financial year.
500 million tonnes of rice is grown every year; Only two million tonnes of this is Basmati Rice.
Rice constitutes 20% of the human species calorie consumption.
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