** Shares of rice exporters Kohinoor Foods KOFO.NS , KRBL
KRBL.NS , LT Foods LTOL.NS and Chaman Lal Setia CLSE.NS up
between 2% and 3.3%
** Reuters reports India signed contracts to export about
500,000 metric tons of new season basmati rice after robust
demand from top buyers in Europe and Middle East
** KOFO and KRBL down 29.4% and 10.7% YTD, respectively,
while LTOL and CLSE have risen 73% and 65%
(Reporting by Rama Venkat in Bengaluru)
((ramavenkat.raman@thomsonreuters.com; https://twitter.com/ramavenkat0607;))