India is currently the second top rice exporting country and will stay a major rice exporter, even if its world share is expected to decrease by 2024 (OECD-FAO, 2015). In the recent past, the volume and composition variations in India’s rice stocks had enough significance to affect commodity' prices at a global scale, as during the 2008 global food crisis (Mohanti, 2016; Childs and Kiawu, 2009). In addition to California’s leading role in agriculture productivity and consumption, agriculture exports from the state have exceeded USD 18 billion annually since 2012 (CDFA, 2015).