-The Times of India NEW DELHI: Private players have placed orders to import around 7,000 tonnes of onions, while the government leaned on a public sector company to ship the key kitchen ingredient to beat the domestic shortage. The moves came even as the food and consumer affairs ministry said it will seek export curbs if prices did not ease in a fortnight. Senior government officials said Project Export Corporation was on...
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Onion crisis: Govt puts curbs on exports, looks for import
-PTI NEW DELHI: With onion prices soaring to Rs 80 per kg in major cities, the government today took steps to boost supplies of the commodity by importing them and curbing their exports. Fearing that prices of the politically sensitive commodity could get out of hand, the government asked cooperative major NAFED to import onions from Pakistan and Iran, according to an official statement. The government also imposed a minimum export price (MEP)...
More »Rice exports may rise 15% as government scraps export floor price-Sutanuka Ghosal
-The Economic Times India's rice exports are likely to jump as much as 15% this year after the government scrapped the minimum export price (MEP) of $700 per tonne. "India's annual basmati exports will surpass last year's figure in the current fiscal," said Sumeet Saluja, managing director, Whitefields Overseas, which markets basmati under the brand name India Crown. Total rice shipments, including basmati and non-basmati, were 7.3 million tonne in 2011-12. Of this,...
More »Onion shortage looms large over country due to patchy monsoon
-PTI Patchy monsoon has its shadow over onion cultivation with major producing regions in Maharashtra and Gujarat witnessing drop in sowing area of the key kitchen item almost by half. Decline in area would affect supply of onion during October-December period and could trigger its price rise in the domestic market. Onion is selling at Rs 10-15 a kg at present in retail in Delhi and other parts of the country. "Almost 50 per...
More »Committee to give Maha school laws a full revision by Yogita Rao
School education laws in the state will soon undergo an overhaul. The Maharashtra government has set up a committee to synchronise all laws in school education with the centralRight to Free and Compulsory Education (RTE) Act, 2009 . Formed recently by the state's school education department, it will be led by a retired Bombay high court judge and will have experts in education. While the committee will look at all laws in...
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