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In a major U-turn amid calls for ban/cap to curb rising prices, India last night decided to ban wheat exports with immediate effect.

NEW DELHI: India has banned wheat exports that the world was counting on to alleviate supply disruptions sparked by the war in Ukraine, saying that its own food security is threatened by a sudden spike in global prices of the grain. The South Asian nation is the world’s second-largest wheat producer. Though India consumes most of the wheat it produces, for months it has been

India cited threats to food security and rising prices as reasons behind the policy U-turn. Global buyers had turned to India for wheat supplies after Russia's war on Ukraine disrupted agriculture markets.

The full impact of the wheat ban on farmers will be known only in the next few days, say experts

When Dr Qu Dongyu, Director-General of the UN Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO), said on May 4 that a record 193 million people are faced with acute hunger and food insecurity, he actually was trying to draw attention of the international community to how severely the destruction of rural live

Wheat production in the country is down due to “early summers”, the government’s procurement has reduced and the prices of ‘atta’ and byproducts like bread, rusks and biscuits are rising by the day. While the government is calling increasing exports as “beneficial

Excelsior Correspondent JAMMU, May 12: The sleuths of Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) today arrested two officials of Agricultural Department in a bribery case here. A CBI official said that a Plant Protection Officer (PPO) Devinder Sharma and Field Assistant Rajinder Kumar, both officials of Jammu and Kashmir Directorate of Agriculture, Jammu were arrested in a bribery case. He said that a case was registered on a complaint against the accused on the allegations of demanding bribe of Rs. ...

Indians have been rationing cooking oil amid the rising cost of Ukrainian and Russian products and export curbs by Indonesia.  The world’s second-largest consumer market is now switching to cheaper products…

When the uptick in wheat export started soon after the rabi arrivals this year - in April, Indian traders have already exported 11 lakh metric tonnes (LMT) of wheat - the primary reason was the increased demand to fulfill the gap created due to ...

Current circumstances could lead to a reddux of 2006-07, when wheat had to be imported