{"id":28795,"date":"2018-10-24T14:53:07","date_gmt":"2018-10-24T09:23:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?p=28795"},"modified":"2018-10-24T14:53:07","modified_gmt":"2018-10-24T09:23:07","slug":"centre-allows-pulses-import-despite-overflowing-godowns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/centre-allows-pulses-import-despite-overflowing-godowns\/","title":{"rendered":"Centre allows pulses import despite overflowing godowns"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thehindu.com\/business\/agri-business\/centre-allows-pulses-import-despite-overflowing-godowns\/article24174961.ece\">Centre allows pulses import despite overflowing godowns<\/a><\/p>\n<p><u>News:<\/u><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>The government allows pulses import despite surplus stocks.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p><u>Important facts:<\/u><\/p>\n<ol start=\"2\">\n<li>The centre has allocated quotas for import of pulses and enforcing additional imports agreements with Mozambique.<\/li>\n<li>The allocations of quotas were made at the Directorate-General of Foreign Trade (DGFT) meeting.<\/li>\n<li>Agriculture Commissioner predicts domestic pulses production of 24 million tonnes in 2018-19 because of good monsoon.<\/li>\n<li>good production leads to fall in prices of pulses<\/li>\n<li><u>Allocation of quotas:<\/u><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<ul>\n<li>For Tur or arhar Dal: 2 lakh tonnes<\/li>\n<li>Moong and Urrad: 1.5 lakh tonnes<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><u>7.Reasons given by the government\u00a0 behind this decision:<\/u><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Balancing the needs of Indian consumers<\/li>\n<li>Fulfilling the Commitments to foreign trade partners<\/li>\n<li>However, the farmer\u2019s groups are not happy with the government\u2019s decision and agitating about falling crop prices.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ol start=\"8\">\n<li>Agreements signed<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<ul>\n<li>In 2016, India signed an MoU to double pulses imports from the East African nations.<\/li>\n<li>This obligates India to buy 1.5 lakh tonnes from Mozambique this year.<\/li>\n<li>The government has also explored the possibility of similar agreement with Kenya.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Centre allows pulses import despite overflowing godowns News: The government allows pulses import despite surplus stocks. Important facts: The centre has allocated quotas for import of pulses and enforcing additional imports agreements with Mozambique. The allocations of quotas were made at the Directorate-General of Foreign Trade (DGFT) meeting. Agriculture Commissioner predicts domestic pulses production of&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/centre-allows-pulses-import-despite-overflowing-godowns\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Centre allows pulses import despite overflowing godowns<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":61,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[555],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28795","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-test-1","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":0,"cached_at":"","cached_date":1704733828},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28795","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\/61"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28795"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28795\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28795"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28795"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28795"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}