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Trudeau gets India's promise on quarantine arrangement for Canadian pulses

Record domestic production, strict quarantine rules have slowed pulses imports from Canada

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Prime Minister Narendra Modi speaks as his Canadian counterpart Justin Trudeau looks on, during their joint press conference at Hyderabad House in New Delhi | PTI Photo

Subhayan Chakraborty New Delhi

A promise by the Indian government on easing of quarantine rules for import of pulses from Canada might be the best policy achievement for Prime Minister Justin Trudeau after his week's trip to this country.

On Friday, both sides committed to 'finalise an arrangement within 2018 to enable the export of Canadian pulses to India, free from pests of quarantine importance, with mutually acceptable technological protocols', according to the statement issued after Trudeau met counterpart, Narendra Modi. Food safety regulators of both nations would work closely in this regard, it said.

India is the world's largest producer, processor, importer and consumer of