Published on: Jan 12 2022, 10:50
Pulses exporter communities of Myanmar have urged the indian govt to increase annual import quota for Tur and Urad by 100%.Notably, govt. of india had signed a memorandum of understanding with Myanmar to import 2.5 lakh MT urad and 1 lakhMT Tur on annual basis for 5years FY 2026 through private channel.Now they have requested the volume to be doubled.The request regarding the doubling the annual quota has been communicated to Nidhi Khare, Additional Secretary, Department of Consumer Affairs.The Myanmar exporters association fears that ifIf the quotas are not increased to 500,000 tonnes for urad and 200,000 tonnes for tur by the Government of India,farmers may switched to other crops,that may lead to rise in prices of both the commodities in the local market.