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The wheat procurement target has been revised downward to 195 lakh tonnes for the current year from the earlier 444 lakh tonnes due to a fall in wheat output and increased exports.
Mera International Private Ltd, the shipper of the consignment bound for Egypt, was promptly granted customs clearances for a portion of wheat that was loaded after the ban went into effect and left Gujarat's Kandla port on May 17.
The Taliban on Thursday suspended the wheat export or trade to avoid the food scarcity, a local media reported.
India called out the West and cautioned that the issue of food grains should not go the way of Covid-19 vaccines, which were purchased by the rich nations in quantities excess of what they needed, leaving the poor and less developed nations scrambling to administer even the initial doses to their people.
Voicing concern over the hoarding of food grains and discrimination amid the "unjustified increase" in food prices, the government on Wednesday said that the issue should not go the way of Covid-19 vaccines.