Centre allows import of pulses despite farmers sitting on huge stocks

1.5 million quintals of tur to be imported under MoU between India and Mozambique, even as farmers hold 4 times more

In what appears to be another instance of farmers’ interests being hurt for no fault of their own. And this time, too, it's pulses. 

The year 2016-17 was a crisis year for pulses, with prices skyrocketing past the Rs 100-150 per kg mark amid crop failure.

In the following years, farmers significantly increased the area under pulses. During the crisis year, India signed an MoU to import 3.75 million quintal of pulses in 3 years from Mozambique.

But farmers are now paying a price for this because the government allowed the import of 1.5 million quintals of tur dal last week. Farmers