{"id":184239,"date":"2022-05-13T19:59:53","date_gmt":"2022-05-13T14:29:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?p=184239"},"modified":"2022-05-13T19:59:53","modified_gmt":"2022-05-13T14:29:53","slug":"wheat-exports-india-to-send-delegations-to-9-countries","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wheat-exports-india-to-send-delegations-to-9-countries\/","title":{"rendered":"Wheat exports: India to send delegations to 9 countries"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
What is the News?<\/b><\/h5>\n

India has set a target of a record 10 million tonnes of wheat export in 2022-23 amid rising global demand for grain globally.<\/span><\/p>\n

Why is India targeting to boost Wheat Exports?<\/b><\/h5>\n

Globally, Russia is the market leader for wheat exports (almost 15% share) and Ukraine is\u00a0<\/span>also a major producer. However, exports from these two countries have been hit by the war and <\/span>sanctions.<\/span><\/p>\n

Hence, many countries are turning to India for wheat because of the competitive price, acceptable quality, availability of surplus wheat and geopolitical reasons.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n
Read more: Ukraine invasion, global wheat supply and India\u2019s opportunity<\/a><\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n
What are the steps taken by the Government of India to boost Wheat Exports?<\/b><\/h5>\n

The Government of India has sent delegations to nine countries including Morocco, Tunisia, and Indonesia to explore possibilities of boosting wheat shipments.<\/span><\/p>\n

The Ministry of Commerce & Industry has set up a task force on wheat exports with representatives from various ministries, including commerce, shipping and railways, and exporters under APEDA.<\/span><\/p>\n

The Department of Commerce has also planned to organize a series of sensitization meetings on exports in major wheat growing states such as Punjab, Haryana, Madhya Pradesh, Uttar Pradesh and Rajasthan.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

What are the outcomes of these steps?<\/b><\/h5>\n

Recently, Egypt, which is one of the world\u2019s biggest importers of wheat, has agreed to source wheat from India<\/a>.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Egypt imported 6.1 MT of wheat in 2021 and India was not part of the list of accredited countries which can export wheat to Egypt.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Note: <\/b>More than 80% of Egypt\u2019s wheat imports estimated to be close to $2 billion in 2021 were from Russia and Ukraine.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n
Read more: Fall in Wheat Production and Procurement: Reasons and Impacts \u2013 Explained, pointwise<\/a><\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

Source: <\/b>The post is based on the article <\/span>\u201c<\/b>Wheat exports: India to send delegations to 9 countries<\/b>\u201d<\/b> published in<\/span> PIB<\/b> on<\/span> 12th May 2022.<\/b><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

What is the News? India has set a target of a record 10 million tonnes of wheat export in 2022-23 amid rising global demand for grain globally. Why is India targeting to boost Wheat Exports? Globally, Russia is the market leader for wheat exports (almost 15% share) and Ukraine is\u00a0also a major producer. However, exports… Continue reading Wheat exports: India to send delegations to 9 countries<\/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":[3590],"class_list":["post-184239","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-factly-articles","category-economy","category-public","tag-pib","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":0,"cached_at":"","cached_date":1704727358},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184239","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=184239"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184239\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=184239"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=184239"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=184239"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}