Centre eases stock limits on pulse traders, lifts them fully for importers

No change in stock holding limit for retailers, which has been kept at five tonnes

With traders and importers voicing strong opposition to the stringent stock limit on pulses imposed earlier this month, the Centre today relaxed some of the limits for wholesalers and retailers and lifted it completely for importers within days of imposing them.

There has been no change in stock holding limit for retailers which has been kept at 5 metric tonnes.

Smaller pulses such as kidney beans (rajma), kabuli chana, lobia (black-red eye beans), peas and moth have also been taken out of the purview of the stock holding limits.

As per revised order, wholesalers can now hold upto 500 tonnes