Wheat Import

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  Government Considers Wheat Imports From Russia At Discount To Calm Prices: Report

  India is in talks with Russia to import wheat at a discount to surging global prices in a rare move to boost supplies and curb food inflation ahead of state and national elections next year, according to four sources.

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  India May Cut Wheat Import Tax To Boost Supply, Check Prices: Report

  The central government is considering cutting or even abolishing a 40% import tax on wheat and lowering a limit on the amount of wheat stocks millers and traders can hold, a government official said on Friday, as part of efforts to boost supplies.

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  "No Such Plan": Government Denies It May Import Wheat

  The government's lower wheat procurement and rising local prices are indicating a sharp drop in production, industry watchers have said.

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  India May Import Wheat, Months After PM's Promise To "Feed World": Report

  Prime Minister Narendra Modi boldly declared that India was ready to "feed the world" after Russia's invasion of Ukraine. Less than four months later, the government needs to consider grain imports.

• India Raises Import Tax on Wheat to 40% to Support Local Farmers

  India raised the customs duty on wheat to 40% from 30%, as it is set for a record rise in output for the third year in a row.

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  Government Hikes Customs Duty On Wheat To 40%

  In May last year, the government had hiked duty on wheat to 30 percent from 20 percent.

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  Government Slaps 10% Import Duty On Wheat, Tur Dal

  The import duty comes amid projection of a record crop this year.

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  Government Considering Imposing Import Duty On Wheat

  Right now, the arrival of new wheat crop has begun in Madhya Pradesh. The crop is yet to arrive in other growing states, Agriculture Secretary Shobhana K Pattanayak said.

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  Government Likely To Impose 25% Wheat Import Tax: Report

  India, the world's second-biggest wheat producer, lowered the import tax on the grain to 10 percent from 25 percent in September 2016 and scrapped the duty on December 8 last year.

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  PM Narendra Modi Told Rahul Gandhi And Co: Should Always Meet Like This

  Meeting Rahul Gandhi and other Congress leaders amid acrimony in Parliament over the notes ban, Prime Minister Narendra Modi reportedly said today: "We should always meet like this."

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  Opposition Protests Zero Import Duty On Wheat, Says It's Anti-Farmer

  Angry Opposition protests over government's move to slash import duty on wheat to zero allegedly to benefit multinational firms forced adjournment of the proceedings of Rajya Sabha till afternoon today.

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  India to Keep Wheat Import Tax at 10 Percent

  India will keep its wheat import tax unchanged at 10 percent and state-run traders will not import the grain for now, as the private trade is expected to buy up to 3 million tonnes this year, the highest in a decade, a senior government source said.

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  Government Extends 25% Import Duty On Wheat

  Government has extended a 25 per cent tax on wheat imports, the food minister said on Friday, to help curb cheap shipments into the country in a surplus year.

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  India's 2016-17 Wheat Imports Could Surge To A Decade High: ITC Executive

  India may import 5 million tonnes of wheat in 2016/17, while the country's output of the grain could decline by an annual 2.3 per cent to about 85 million tonnes, said S. Sivakumar, group head of agri and IT businesses at ITC Ltd.

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  Wheat Imports Hit 5,00,000 Tonnes As Drought Cuts Supplies

  Wheat output is likely to fall short of the official target of 94 million tonnes as a second year of drought and unseasonal rains hits yields.