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With global wheat supplies impacted, the world turned to India - which promised to fill the void. But domestic compulsions forced it to backtrack. Find out why India slammed a break on wheat export
'More than half a dozen countries have approached India for more than 1.5 million tonnes of wheat and we will see how to go about these requests,' says a govt official who didn't wish to be identified
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Asserting that it was never a traditional player in the international wheat market, India said it will continue to allow wheat export for countries that are vulnerable, friendly
Traders said some 190,000 tonnes of wheat are struck for want of fresh approvals; another 1.5-1.6 million tonnes are at the ports
According to sources, India exported wheat even at a time when about eight nations, including Ukraine, Belarus, Turkey, Egypt, Kazakhstan and Kuwait, had imposed wheat export restrictions