No plans to import wheat into India: Government sources

By PTI

NEW DELHI: The authorities has no plans to import wheat because it has ample shares to satisfy the nation’s necessities, official sources mentioned.

The Food Corporation of India (FCI) has sufficient inventory for public distribution, they added.

“There are no plans to import wheat into India. The country has sufficient stocks to meet our domestic requirements,” a supply mentioned. The feedback come towards the backdrop of some stories which mentioned India might import the foodgrain.

India’s wheat manufacturing is projected to have declined practically 3 per cent to 106.84 million tonnes whereas the general foodgrain manufacturing is estimated to have touched a file 315.72 million tonnes within the 2021-22 crop 12 months.

Wheat manufacturing is estimated to have declined attributable to a heatwave that resulted in shrivelled grains within the northern states of Punjab and Haryana.

According to the fourth advance estimate for the 2021-22 crop 12 months launched by the agriculture ministry just lately, file output is estimated for rice, maize, gram, pulses, rapeseed and mustard, oilseeds and sugarcane.

A wheat flour millers’ physique earlier this month demanded that the federal government scrap the 40 per cent import responsibility on wheat to spice up home provides and management costs.

Members of the Roller Flour Millers’ Federation of India met Food Secretary Sudhanshu Pandey on Wednesday to debate the problem of worth rise and lack of wheat out there, it mentioned in an announcement.

The federation’s President Anjani Agarwal has mentioned the worth of wheat has elevated by Rs 300-350 per quintal within the final 15 days.

The trade physique has raised issues concerning the unavailability of wheat and the drastic rise in worth in the previous couple of days despite the fact that the harvest season ended only a month again and the brand new crop would arrive solely after eight months from now.

It has additionally demanded the discharge of wheat underneath the Open Market Sales Scheme (OMSS) by means of a young course of for person industries.

In May, India banned wheat exports in a bid to verify excessive costs amid issues of wheat output being hit by a scorching warmth wave. In July, the federal government had acknowledged that wheat shares in FCI godowns are anticipated to be 134 lakh tonnes firstly of the following fiscal, 80 per cent greater than the buffer norm.

In a written reply within the Rajya Sabha, Food and Consumer Affairs Minister Piyush Goyal mentioned the central pool inventory of wheat as of July 1, 2022, is effectively above the foodgrains stocking norms. India exported a file 7 million tonnes of wheat through the 2021-22 fiscal.

The wholesale price-based inflation eased to a five-month low of 13.93 per cent in July on easing costs of meals articles and manufactured merchandise. Inflation in meals articles in July eased to 10.77 per cent from 14.39 per cent in June.

NEW DELHI: The authorities has no plans to import wheat because it has ample shares to satisfy the nation’s necessities, official sources mentioned.

The Food Corporation of India (FCI) has sufficient inventory for public distribution, they added.

“There are no plans to import wheat into India. The country has sufficient stocks to meet our domestic requirements,” a supply mentioned. The feedback come towards the backdrop of some stories which mentioned India might import the foodgrain.

India’s wheat manufacturing is projected to have declined practically 3 per cent to 106.84 million tonnes whereas the general foodgrain manufacturing is estimated to have touched a file 315.72 million tonnes within the 2021-22 crop 12 months.

Wheat manufacturing is estimated to have declined attributable to a heatwave that resulted in shrivelled grains within the northern states of Punjab and Haryana.

According to the fourth advance estimate for the 2021-22 crop 12 months launched by the agriculture ministry just lately, file output is estimated for rice, maize, gram, pulses, rapeseed and mustard, oilseeds and sugarcane.

A wheat flour millers’ physique earlier this month demanded that the federal government scrap the 40 per cent import responsibility on wheat to spice up home provides and management costs.

Members of the Roller Flour Millers’ Federation of India met Food Secretary Sudhanshu Pandey on Wednesday to debate the problem of worth rise and lack of wheat out there, it mentioned in an announcement.

The federation’s President Anjani Agarwal has mentioned the worth of wheat has elevated by Rs 300-350 per quintal within the final 15 days.

The trade physique has raised issues concerning the unavailability of wheat and the drastic rise in worth in the previous couple of days despite the fact that the harvest season ended only a month again and the brand new crop would arrive solely after eight months from now.

It has additionally demanded the discharge of wheat underneath the Open Market Sales Scheme (OMSS) by means of a young course of for person industries.

In May, India banned wheat exports in a bid to verify excessive costs amid issues of wheat output being hit by a scorching warmth wave. In July, the federal government had acknowledged that wheat shares in FCI godowns are anticipated to be 134 lakh tonnes firstly of the following fiscal, 80 per cent greater than the buffer norm.

In a written reply within the Rajya Sabha, Food and Consumer Affairs Minister Piyush Goyal mentioned the central pool inventory of wheat as of July 1, 2022, is effectively above the foodgrains stocking norms. India exported a file 7 million tonnes of wheat through the 2021-22 fiscal.

The wholesale price-based inflation eased to a five-month low of 13.93 per cent in July on easing costs of meals articles and manufactured merchandise. Inflation in meals articles in July eased to 10.77 per cent from 14.39 per cent in June.