Egypt has approved India as a wheat supplier. This comes amid a sharp dip in global wheat production, largely because of the Russia-Ukraine war.<\/span><\/p>\n Wheat is a <\/span>Rabi Crop<\/b>. It is<\/span> the second most important cereal crop in India after rice. <\/span>It is mostly consumed in the north and north-west parts of the country.<\/span><\/p>\n Suitable Climate:<\/b> It is grown at a temperature of\u00a0 10-15 \u00b0C (Sowing time) and 21-26 \u00b0C (Ripening & Harvesting) with bright sunlight. It requires a rainfall of 75 to 100 cm.<\/span><\/p>\n Major wheat growing states in India ar<\/b>e Uttar Pradesh, Punjab, Haryana, Madhya Pradesh, Rajasthan, Bihar and Gujarat.<\/span><\/p>\n Russia and Ukraine accounted for nearly one-third of global wheat exports.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n Egypt is the world’s biggest importer of wheat.<\/span><\/p>\n India in Wheat Exports: <\/b>India is the second-largest producer of wheat, with a share of around 14.14% of the world’s total production in 2020.<\/span><\/p>\n The top countries importing Indian wheat in 2020-21 were Bangladesh, Nepal, the United Arab Emirates and Sri Lanka.<\/span><\/p>\n India accounts for less than 1% of the world’s wheat export. However, its share has increased from 0.14% in 2016 to 0.54% in 2020.<\/span><\/p>\n India has a target to export nearly 10 million tonnes of wheat in FY23 to bridge the supply gaps arising from the Russia-Ukraine conflict.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n Source: <\/b>This post is based on the article <\/span>\u201cEgypt approves India as wheat supplier<\/b>\u201d <\/b>published in <\/span>Livemint <\/b>on 16th April 2022.<\/b><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" What is the News? Egypt has approved India as a wheat supplier. This comes amid a sharp dip in global wheat production, largely because of the Russia-Ukraine war. About Wheat Wheat is a Rabi Crop. It is the second most important cereal crop in India after rice. It is mostly consumed in the north and… Continue reading Egypt approves India as wheat supplier<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10317,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1566,3127,9],"tags":[10501],"class_list":["post-179747","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-factly-articles","category-economy","category-public","tag-live-mint","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":0,"cached_at":"","cached_date":1704781703},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179747","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10317"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=179747"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179747\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=179747"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=179747"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=179747"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}About Wheat<\/b><\/h5>\n
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