To stop the rise in prices, the government has outlawed the export of wheat flour, maida, semolina, and wholemeal atta. The government had already prohibited the export of wheat in May.
However, the Directorate General of Foreign Trade (DGFT) announced that in some circumstances, exports of these goods will be permitted subject to approval from the government of India.
The DGFT’s announcement states that “Export policy of commodities (wheat or meslin flour, maida, semolina, wholemeal aata, and resulting aata) is revised from free to forbidden.” Sirgi and rawa are also components of semolina.
It further said that this notification will “not” apply the provisions of the foreign trade policy 2015–20 regarding transitional arrangements.
The majority of the world’s wheat exports, or about one-fourth, come from Russia and Ukraine. The two nations’ war has disrupted the world’s wheat supply chain, which has raised demand for Indian wheat.
As a result, there has been an increase in the price of wheat on the domestic market.
When compared to the same period in 2021, wheat flour exports from India increased by 200 percent from April through July 2022.
India exported wheat flour worth USD 246 million in 2021–2022. In the months of April through June of current fiscal year, exports were roughly $128 million.
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