The Russia-Ukraine war has created challenges the world over in terms of food grain supplies and the Government of India is looking to step in with a likely export of 100 lakh tonnes of grains this year, with the first quarter itself resulting in orders for 35 lakh tonnes.
Commerce minister Piyush Goyal, who is also the Minister for Food and Public Distribution, told The Hindu that his Ministry had put in place an internal committee to look into qualitative standards of food export, not just grains, but other food items as well, to 180 countries across the world.
"There is nothing wrong with the quality of our grains, and other food items, but specific countries have particular qualitative norms and also different requirements of food items. The internal committee is looking at matching what we have got and putting in place paperwork to facilitate exports. We plan to put in 2,000 applications for exports to countries that have high dependence on Russian and Ukraine grains," he stated.
