India lowers wheat stock limit to increase availability - food secretary

Workers remove dust from wheat at a wholesale grain market in Chandigarh, India April 17, 2017. Ajay Verma, Reuters Image used for illustrative purpose.
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The food ministry's most senior civil servant said on Friday

Nidhi Verma, Reuters News

December 8, 2023

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Workers remove dust from wheat at a wholesale grain market in Chandigarh, India April 17, 2017. Ajay Verma, Reuters Image used for illustrative purpose.

India has lowered the stock limit of wheat to increase the grain's availability, the food ministry's most senior civil servant said on Friday.

The country has revised wheat stock limit to 1000 metric tons for traders and wholesalers from 2000 metric tonnes, its food secretary said in a statement. (Reporting by Nidhi Verma; Writing by Kanjyik Ghosh; Editing by Shri Navaratnam)

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