Food Secretary Sudhanshu Pandey said wheat exports from India, the world's second-biggest producer of the grain, have picked up after global prices surged due to Russia's war against Ukraine, and total shipments from the country have already touched a record of 6.6 million tonne this fiscal so far. He said it is an ‘opportunity’ for Indian exporters as the new wheat crop will be available early from March 15 onwards when compared to other global wheat producers.
Russia and Ukraine together account for almost a quarter of the global wheat supply. Their wheat crop will mature in August and September this year. As a result, he said that global wheat prices have already gone up and are ruling in the range of Rs 24,000-25,000 per tonne. He also said ‘Indian wheat exports, as a result, have picked up. By the end of February, we have already exported 6.6 million tonnes of wheat’. So far, wheat exports have crossed the historical high of 6.5 million tonnes achieved earlier in 2012-13 fiscal.
He said ‘Still one month is left, you can expect roughly about 7 million tonne plus exports this year’, and added that this is good news for Indian farmers and exports. India's wheat production is estimated to touch a new record of 111.32 million tonnes in the 2021-22 crop year (July-June) as against 109.59 million tonnes in the previous year, as per the Agriculture Ministry's second advance estimate. Wheat, the main rabi (winter) crop, will start hitting the market from March 15 onwards. The country also has a surplus stock of wheat in the government godowns.
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