Centre bans wheat exports to ensure adequate availability of food grain in country: Kailash Choudhary

30 May 2022 Evaluate

With an aim to ensure adequate availability of the food grain in the country, Union Minister of State for Agriculture and Farmers' Welfare Kailash Choudhary has said the Centre had placed a ban on wheat exports. He said ‘For us the country is first and our priority is to make available adequate wheat to our citizens, We have banned wheat export so that people don't face shortage’. The ban was put in place on May 14 in order to control domestic prices amid concern that wheat output may be hit due to a prevailing heatwave.

India's wheat exports stood at an all-time high of 7 million tonnes, valued at $2.05 billion, in 2021-22, with over 50 per cent being bought by neighbouring Bangladesh. On whether the Centre would provide financial relief to farmers facing losses due to the sudden ban on exports, Choudhary only said the government buys produce at minimum support price.

Choudhary said ‘the budget for agriculture was Rs 23,000 crore in 2013, which has been raised six times, taking it to Rs 1.32 lakh crore. He added that the Union government, in order to make the country self reliant in edible oils, was encouraging oil seeds and palm cultivation.

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