In 2004-05, lack of information on private trade contracts resulted in much larger quantities of wheat exports than intended. India had to import for years to make up.
While documentation about barter treaty is sparse, it was inked in 1949 when India, a leading commercial producer of jute, was experiencing a food crisis.
Rising wholesale prices are signs that traders are estimating a lower crop size for wheat and buoyant exports. It can worsen with Indonesia's ban on palm oil.
India is the world’s second-largest wheat producer after China, but a high consumption base has seldom allowed it to be a big exporter. This can change, at least in this year.
Ukraine and Russia together account for over a quarter of global trade of wheat. The war has closed major ports in Ukraine, and severed logistics and transport links.
About 30-40 Afghan trucks will be crossing over from Pakistan to India Monday night and will leave for Afghanistan after the loading of 10 MT of wheat is complete .
Over generations, Bihar’s bane has been its utter lack of urbanisation. But now, even Bihar is urbanising. Or let’s say, rurbanising. Two decades under Nitish Kumar have created a new elite in its cities.
Indian govt officials last month skipped Turkish National Day celebrations in Delhi, in a message to Ankara following its support for Islamabad, particularly during Operation Sindoor.
Bihar is blessed with a land more fertile for revolutions than any in India. Why has it fallen so far behind then? Constant obsession with politics is at the root of its destruction.
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