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India set to offer wheat to flour millers, biscuit makers to tame prices -Mayank Bhardwaj and Rajendra Jadhav

-Reuters/ Livemint.com Wheat prices have surged in India this year after a sudden rise in temperatures hit crop yields and output India is set to offer 2 to 3 million tonnes of wheat to bulk consumers such as flour millers and biscuit makers as part of efforts to cool record high prices, two government sources said, even as state reserves have dropped to the lowest in six years. Wheat prices have surged in...

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Centre may sell surplus wheat in small tranches to control atta prices

-Business Standard flour millers have reportedly told the government that they have stocks for one to two months only In order to increase the availability of wheat and check the retail prices of atta (flour), the government may soon sell its surplus wheat in different states in small tranches. According to a report in the Times of India (TOI), flour millers have told the government that they have stocks for one to...

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Govt to soon rope in private players for foodgrains procurement: Food secy

-PTI/ Business Standard "We have written to states that the government wants to bring private sector in the procurement process besides FCI and state agencies," food secretary Sudhanshu Pandey said. The Centre will soon invite private players along with Food Corporation of India and other state agencies to procure foodgrains for buffer stock, food secretary Sudhanshu Pandey said on Monday. He informed that the Union food ministry has already written to all the...

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No respite for common man? After wheat and flour, now prices of maida soar -Harpreet Bajwa

-The New Indian Express The market buzz is that at Kandla port in Gujarat, from where maida is traded abroad, the price has touched around Rs 3,000 per quintal. CHANDIGARH: The prices of maida (refined wheat flour) are soaring due to escalating international prices following the Ukraine conflict. The result is bakery products such as bread and biscuits could be costlier soon. Sources said the price of wheat has touched Rs 2,350 per...

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India wheat imports seen surging to decade high as supply drops -Pratik Parija

-Livemint.com Imports may total 5 million metric tonnes in 2016-17, the most since 2006-07, according to estimates New Delhi: India may import the most wheat in a decade as output declines in the world’s second-biggest producer. Imports may total 5 million metric tonnes in 2016-17, the most since 2006-07, according to the median estimate of seven traders surveyed by Bloomberg. Production is set to decline 1.8% to 85 million metric tonnes in the...

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