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Exports of Ayush and herbal products have reported a growth of 7% during the month of August, compared to the same month of previous fiscal year. This is following a 6% decline registered in the month of July, on a Year-over-Year (YoY) basis.
Exports during the month of August, 2025, was at $52.63 million, as compared to $49.15 million in the same month of previous fiscal year. It may be noted that there was a 5.3% decline in August, 2024, compared to $51.91 million in August, 2023.
In Rupee terms, exports of Ayush and herbal products have reported a growth of 11.7% in August, this year, at Rs. 460.64 crore, as compared to Rs. 412.35 crore registered in August, 2024. Exports during August, 2024 was a decline of 4.05% compared to Rs. 429.75 crore in August, 2023, according to data from the Directorate General of Commercial Intelligence and Statistics (DGCI&S).
In terms of quantity, August, 2025 reported a growth of around 22.67% in exports at 10,579 MT as compared to 8,623.9 MT during the same month of 2024. Exports during August, 2024 was almost 7.5% higher than the 8,019.7 MT exports reported in August, 2023.
Cumulative exports during the first five months of the fiscal year was almost stagnant at $287.72 million as compared to $287.04 million registered in the same month a year ago. Cumulative growth from April to August, 2024 was 8.4% as compared to $264.7 million in August, 2023.
In Rupee terms, the cumulative growth for the first five months of the current fiscal year witnessed a growth of 3.21% at Rs. 2,475 crore, as compared to Rs, 2,398 crore in the corresponding period of previous year.
In terms of quantity, the growth was around 4% at 53,366 MT from April to August, 2025, as compared to 51,362 MT during the same period last year.
It may be noted that exports during the month of July, 2025, was at $59.3 million, as compared to $63.09 million in the same month of previous fiscal year.
In Rupee terms, exports of Ayush and herbal products have reported a decline of 3% in July, this year, at Rs. 511.15 crore, as compared to Rs. 527.46 crore registered in July, 2024.
As reported earlier, the exports during the first quarter of the current fiscal, ended June 30, 2025 reported a marginal growth of 6% and stood at $175.7 million, as against $174.8 million during the three months from April to June, 2024.
Ayush and herbal products exports reported a growth of 3.6 per cent during the fiscal year 2023-24, at $651.17 million as compared to the same period of previous year. During 2022-23, the exports were $628.54 million. The year 2022-23 registered a growth of 2.68 per cent in exports, from $612.12 million in the previous year.
The Ministry of Ayush has established Ayush Export Promotion Council (Ayushexcil) to promote Ayush products and services globally by the Ministry of Ayush and supported by the Union ministry of commerce. It was officially launched at Global Ayush Investment and Innovation Summit held in Gandhinagar, Gujarat on April 20, 2022, and aimed to oversee exports of products of Ayurveda, Homoeopathy, Siddha, Sowa/Rigpa and Unani systems and address trade issues pertaining to these sectors.
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