India foodgrains imports fall to two.Seventy eight MT in 2018-19

India foodgrains imports fall to two.Seventy eight MT in 2018-19

by admin- Monday, July 15th, 2019 06:36:25 PM

India imported 2.78 million tonnes (mt) of foodgrains worth $1.214 billion in 2018-19 in opposition to 7.Fifty two mt with a cost of $3.342 billion inside the previous 12 months, Agriculture Minister Narendra Singh Tomar said in Parliament.

The drastic drop was as a consequence of decrease imports of wheat and pulses, he said in a written reply to a query in Rajya Sabha.

While India imported 5.61 mt of pulses and 1.Sixty five mt of wheat in 2017-18, imports of pulses and wheat came down to 2.53 mt and and a pair of,746 tonnes respectively inside the previous financial year, he stated.

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