NEW DELHI (Commodity Online): As India looks forward to enact the proposed Food Security Act (FSA) that is expected to bring 75 % of the country’s population under the food security net, Sharad Pawar, India’s farm minister has retracted on his stance of allowing food grain exports.
He said he cannot “push” the export enactment as the FSA is expected to be presented in the Parliament’s ensuing session.
Earlier the Food Minister of India, Prof. KV Thomas had said that the draft proposal of the Food Security Act will define the quantity of food grains to be distributed.
“Accordingly, for the priority category (BPL: Below Poverty Line), 35 kilogram will be distributed per five-member family and for the APL (Above Poverty Line) category, 3 kilogram will be distributed per person. For the priority category, Wheat would be distributed for Rs 2 a kilogram and Rice would be distributed for Rs.3 a kilogram. For the APL category, 50% of Minimum Support Price will be charged.” Thomas added.
A panel of ministers is likely to meet this month to decide on allowing food grain exports, Pawar said.
India is having 65.47 mn tons of food grains in its granaries as per the recent reports and the governmental ban on food grains is in place since 2007.
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