India imported 2.78 million tonnes (mt) of foodgrains well worth $1.214 billion in 2018-19 towards 7.Fifty two mt with a fee of $3.342 billion within the preceding 12 months, Agriculture Minister Narendra Singh Tomar said in Parliament.
The drastic drop changed into attributable to decrease imports of wheat and pulses, he said in a written reply to a question in Rajya Sabha.
While India imported five.Sixty one mt of pulses and 1.65 mt of wheat in 2017-18, imports of pulses and wheat got here down to 2.Fifty three mt and and a couple of,746 tonnes respectively within the previous financial year, he said.
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