The Agricultural and Processed Food Products Development Authority (APEDA) on Wednesday requested the Karnal-based Indian Institute of Wheat and Barley Research (IIWBR) to organize complete high quality requirements for wheat exports, together with phytosanitary and residue norms.
This follows a first-of-its-kind assembly of all of the stakeholders together with farmers, merchants and exporters within the worth chains held at Karnal, Haryana. APEDA, in affiliation with IIWBR, shall be conducting a sequence of such interactions in key wheat-growing states equivalent to Punjab, Rajasthan, Madhya Pradesh and Uttar Pradesh, to sensitise stakeholders on the problem of exporting high quality grain.
“There is significant demand for wheat from India in the global market and we need to develop stringent norms so that we emerge as a reliable supplier of grain globally,” M Angamuthu, chairman, APEDA, informed FE. India has exported a document 7 million tonne (mt) of wheat in 2021-22, which is valued at $ 2.05 billion. Out of the full cargo, round 50% of wheat was exported to Bangladesh within the final fiscal.
In the present fiscal, Egypt, which is among the world’s largest importers of wheat, has agreed to supply wheat from India. Egyptian authorities have chosen India as one of many origins for this strategic commodity. Angamuthu stated {that a} delegation from APEDA shall be quickly visiting Egypt to work out modalities of wheat exports. The export promotion physique will quickly ship delegations to Morocco, Syria, Tunisia, Indonesia, Philippines, Thailand and Vietnam to discover the opportunity of wheat exports.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi final week requested the involved officers to make sure high quality norms for exports of meals grain and different agricultural merchandise from the nation. “In the light of increasing demand for agricultural products of India, the Prime Minister directed that all steps be taken to ensure quality norms and standards so that India evolves into an assured source of food grain and other agricultural products,” an official assertion had said. Amid the experiences of drop in wheat manufacturing to 105 mt from the sooner estimate of 111 mt for the 2021-22 crop 12 months (July-June), India has set a goal of a document 10 mt of wheat in 2022-23, amid rising international demand for the grain globally.
Source: www.financialexpress.com”