India exports 4.03 MT of wheat so far in the current fiscal

05 Mar 2013 Evaluate

In the current fiscal so far the country has exported 4.03 million tonnes (MT) of wheat, of which more than half of the exported grain was government-held stock. In September 2011, in view of sufficient supply due to bumper crop wheat export was permitted under Open General Licence (OGL) while the overseas sale of government-held wheat stock was allowed in June 2012.

During 2012-13 till February 22, a quantity of 4.03 MT of wheat has been exported of which 2.07 MT of wheat stored in the government godowns were exported through state agencies, while 35,000 tonnes of grain shipped to Afghanistan as humanitarian aid.

India, in 2011-12 fiscal had exported 741,000 tonnes of wheat out of this 100,000 tonnes of the grain was exported from the Central pool as humanitarian aid to Afghanistan. The government-held wheat stock was not exported in 2009-10 and 2010-11 financial years. Besides, the stock of wheat in the central pool as on February 01, 2013 was 30.80 MT against the actual requirement of 11.2 MT reflecting the sufficient availability of wheat stock.

On wastage of foodgrains stocks in the state-run Food Corporation of India (FCI), a quantity of 1,454.27 tonnes of foodgrains has been accrued as damaged/ non-issuable as on February 22 of the current fiscal. A total of 16,386 tonnes of foodgrains was non-issuable /damaged in the last three years in FCI.

Due to record procurement following bumper crop of 259.32 MT in the 2011-12 crop year (July-June), FCI godowns have been overflowing with foodgrains of which wheat output stood an all-time high of 94.88 MT while rice at 105.31 MT.

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