New Delhi, Sept. 6 -- The recently announced next-generation Goods and Services Tax (GST) reforms will significantly benefit India's agriculture sector, particularly the rice industry, Indian Rice Exporters Federation's Vice President, Dev Garg, said.

Talking to ANI, he called the reform "not just a tax reform, it is an economic reform."

The reform, according to him, will create a "huge wave" of new growth opportunities, job creation, and this will supercharge the economy.

Garg pointed out that exporters had long faced bottlenecks in GST registration, which earlier took several weeks.

"Firstly, the time limit for GST registration has now been reduced to three days. Earlier, if we see a new GST registration, it used to take more than 3...