The government may look at wheat exports after assessing foodgrain requirement for implementing national food security and kharif crop outlook next week. ?Let the monsoon be over. Let agriculture ministry release kharif outlook next week…After assessing the food grain requirement for National Food Security, we can look at wheat exports,? commerce secretary Rahul Khullar said.
Chief economic advisor in finance ministry Kaushik Basu in a working paper on managing foodgrain had said India should enter into swap deals on the global commodity exchanges to get over the problem of storage without compromising on the country?s needs.