| Wheat export ban to stay | 07-OCT-09 |
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| India, the world’s second-biggest producer of wheat, won’t end a ban on exports of the cereal to avoid food shortages after drought and floods damaged crops of rice and sugar cane. |
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| Commerce Min wants wheat export issue handled by EGoM | 14-JUL-09 |
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| A day after revoking its earlier order to allow wheat export, the Commerce Ministry has favoured referring the issue of easing the ban to an Empowered Group of Ministers, saying food security should be of prime importance. |
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| Wheat export ban back in force | 13-JUL-09 |
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| The government today cancelled permission for exporting up to 9 lakh tonnes of wheat, just ten days after easing the ban on overseas shipment of the food grain. |
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| Govt lifts ban on wheat export | 04-JUL-09 |
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| India today lifted a 28-month ban on wheat export by allowing export of 900,000 tonnes of the grain by government-owned trading agencies. |
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| A wheat mountain | 12-MAR-09 |
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| The green signal given by the empowered group of ministers for revoking the two-year-old ban on wheat exports, after the general elections are over in May, seems a belated step that falls far short of what needs to be done to prevent official foodgrain inventories from mounting to unsustainable levels. Without easing the stifling controls and restrictions that have been imposed on the private food trade, including stock limits, the opening up of exports will be of little avail. |
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| Centre gives in-principle nod to lift ban on wheat exports | 06-MAR-09 |
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| The government today agreed in-principle to lift an over two-year-old ban on shipment of wheat and wheat products after elections, due in April and May, but refrained from doing away with the curbs on the export of non-basmati rice. |
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| Govt to mull lifting ban on wheat export | 20-FEB-09 |
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| Faced with the problem of surplus wheat stocks, the Government will in the next 10 days decide on lifting ban on export of wheat products and increasing stock limits. |
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| Pakistan export ban to stay until prices fall | 22-JUN-07 |
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| Pakistan will not export wheat until local prices of the grain fall from levels inflated by speculative buying in anticipation of overseas sales, an economic adviser to the government said.
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| More Pak wheat exports to help India | 07-MAY-07 |
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| Pakistan has approved the export of an additional 500,000 tonnes of wheat in view of higher output estimates, the countrys newspapers reported today.
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| Govt may allow wheat exports by year-end | 22-FEB-07 |
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The country, which is the worlds second-biggest wheat grower, may lift a ban on wheat exports before the year-end as rains have improved prospects for a better-than-expected harvest.
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| Pakistan to scrap wheat export duty | 11-JAN-07 |
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| Pakistan, the worlds sixth-largest consumer of wheat, will scrap a levy on exports of the grain to boost overseas sales amid expectations of a bigger harvest.
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