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).