Day one · OpeningThe Chief Guest opened it.
Ministers, ambassadors and the heads of the rice trade opened the world's largest rice event on the Bharat Mandapam stage.
Next edition · BIRC 2027 · Dates to be announced
The Global Platform for Rice Industry Leadership.
The global rice industry meets again in New Delhi in 2027 to shape the trade, policy, and future of rice.
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The purpose
India at the centre. Every rice market in the room. One place where the industry decides what comes next.
BIRC 2026 in review
Three days in New Delhi, 23-25 October 2026 - the inauguration, the policy sessions, the exhibition floor, and the night the industry handed out its own awards.
Day one · Opening
The addressIndia's rice leadership, stated plainly.
From the BIRC lectern: where the trade stands today, and what the next decade asks of it.
Knowledge sessionsPolicy, carbon, credit.
Working sessions on trade schemes, sustainability and the finance routes open to rice projects.
The floorThree halls, three hundred exhibitors.
Millers, exporters, machinery and packaging across the Bharat Mandapam exhibition halls.
Gala nightThe industry honoured its own.
The awards closed the edition, with a gala dinner for delegations from more than a hundred countries.
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How the edition ran.
0123 OctoberOpening day
Inauguration, the first keynotes, and the halls opening to a queue that ran the length of the concourse.
0224 OctoberThe trading day
Buyer-seller meetings back to back, The Rice Economy launched on the main stage, and the gala dinner at the end of it.
0325 OctoberFestival day
The culinary theatre, the rice cook-off and the felicitations that closed BIRC 2026.
The whole trade, in one room.
Buyers and sellers who normally meet over email, at one table for three days.
International buyers
Importers from the Gulf, South-East Asia and across Africa, sourcing at the B2B tables.
Exporters
Indian exporters meeting the counterparties who actually move their cargo.
Country delegations
Trade bodies and national delegations, here to open markets rather than browse.
Millers & processors
The people who run the mills, comparing machinery, grades and yields.
Institutions & finance
Banks, certification bodies and the agencies that underwrite the trade.
Traders & brokers
The brokers who price the market, in the room where the market is set.
Choose how you enter the room.
Three access tiers, one global rice summit. Pick the pass that fits your programme, network and time at BIRC 2027.
Secure checkout. Passes are issued to the named holder.
Find Your Place at BIRC 2027
Whether you produce, mill, trade, buy, supply, or shape the future of rice, BIRC 2027 gives you a place to connect, participate, and do business.
On the show floor. In the programme. At the deal table.
01For delegates
Attend
Access the inner circle of global trade policy and executive networking.
02For exporters
Exhibit
Meet the world's largest rice buyers at the epicentre of the supply chain.
Booth packages→
03For partners
Sponsor
Claim a leadership platform in front of 30,000+ decision-makers.
Sponsorship tiers→BIRC in figures
The scale of the floor
30,000+
Participants120+
Countries₹30,435Cr
In MOUs signed300+
ExhibitorsProjected for the 2026 edition, based on delegations registered as of July 2026.
6 Zones.
Endless possibilities.
Six immersive worlds tracing rice from field to future, designed to be walked, touched, and remembered.
Why BIRC04 principles
One platform,every pillar.
Four reasons the global rice industry meets here.
01
India-anchored,globally led
We root the world's rice conversation in India, then open it to every market that trades in grain.
02
Trade, innovation,knowledge
Every pillar of the industry under one roof, including sustainability and policy.
03
Built for year-roundprogress
A year-round community that convenes at the summit but never ends.
04
Everyone winstogether
Growth for the entire rice ecosystem, not a smaller slice for a few.
India at the centre.Every market in the room.
BIRC 2027 · Dates to be announced