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AgroPolicy, India, Pulses

The Federation will soon take the number of mobile outlets from 50 to 100 and add atta, rice, and moong dal

National Cooperative Consumers’ Federation of India Limited (NCCF), a unit of the Ministry of Consumer Affairs, Food and Public Distribution, Government of India, has launched the ‘Bharat Dal’ brand in Tamil Nadu to sell high-quality pulses and rice to consumers at subsidised price. AASSAAN Global Trade has been appointed as the authorised distributor of Bharat Dal.

Currently, 50 mobile vans sell Bharat Dal brand chana dal directly to customers at main locations in towns and villages in each district. The number of mobile outlets will be increased to 100 and new items such as atta, rice, and moong dal will be added soon. 

This flagship initiative of NCCF aims to stabilise prices, curb food inflation, and augment domestic availability. Bharat Dal is already sold at various places in North India with an overwhelming response from consumers. 


To make pulses available to consumers at affordable prices, the Central Government is maintaining a buffer stock of five major pulses, namely, chana, tur, urad, moong and masur under the Price Stabilisation Fund (PSF). The stocks from the buffer are released in the market in a calibrated and targeted manner to control prices. The chana dal, under this arrangement, is also made available to state governments for supplies under their welfare schemes, police, and jails, and also for distribution through the retail outlets of state government-controlled cooperatives and corporations. 

The Federation will soon take the number

AgroPolicy, Pulses, Supply Chain, Trade

The Indian government and exporters can export tur dal without any upper limit until the same date

The High Commission of India in Maputo has informed pulse exporters in Mozambique that India will be importing pigeon peas (tur) and urad without any restrictions on quantity until March 2024.

The Ministry of Consumer Affairs, Food and Public Distribution, Government of India has made it clear that these imports will fall under the Free Category (OGL) until March 31, 2024. This means that the import of tur dal and urad dal will be done freely by the Indian government and exporters can export tur dal without any upper limit until the same date.

The MoU quota for the minimum purchase of 2 lakh tonnes of pigeon peas by India from Mozambique, which was renewed in November 2020, has no relevance under the free import policy regime for pigeon peas until March 31, 2024. Additionally, the Indian government has removed the import duty of 10 per cent on pigeon peas from March 3, 2023, to avoid the procedural hurdle created by the need for importers to produce a country of origin certificate to avail of the Duty-Free Preferential Treatment Scheme.

The Indian government and exporters can export

AgroPolicy, Foodgrains, Pulses, Supply Chain

The Centre also asks to verify the stock positions and take strict action against those violating the stock limits order

Nidhi Khare, Additional Secretary, Department of Consumer Affairs chaired a meeting with State Food and Civil Supplies Departments, Central Warehousing Corporation (CWC) and State Warehousing Corporations (SWCs) to review stock disclosure of Tur and Urad and the implementation of stock limits by the state governments. The Department of Consumer Affairs had imposed stock limits on Tur and Urad by invoking the Essential Commodities Act, of 1955 in order to prevent hoarding and unscrupulous speculation and also to improve affordability to the consumers.

The retail prices, quantities of stocks disclosed by various stock-holding entities and stocks in CWC and SWC warehouses in respect of Tur and Urad were reviewed in the meeting. The action taken by states to verify the mismatches between quantities pledged by market players with banks and quantities declared on the stock disclosure portal and the enforcement of stock limits were also discussed with the states. Further, CWC and SWCs were asked to furnish details of Tur and Urad stocks in their respective warehouses, on a regular basis. In the meeting, the state governments were asked to continuously monitor the prices and verify the stock positions of stock-holding entities and take strict action on those who violated the stock limits order. 

Under the order, stock limits have been prescribed for Tur and Urad until 31st October 2023 for all states and UTs. Stock limits applicable to each of the pulse individually are 200 MT for wholesalers; 5 MT for retailers; 5 MT at each retail outlet and 200 MT at the depot for big chain retailers; last 3 months of production or 25 per cent of annual installed capacity, whichever is higher, for the millers. The order has also made it mandatory for these entities to declare the stock position on the portal (https://fcainfoweb.nic.in/psp) of the Department.

The stock limit order was the culmination of various steps taken by the Department of Consumer Affairs to ensure the affordability of Tur dal and Urad dal to the consumers, starting with the stock declaration advisory.

The Centre also asks to verify the

AgroPolicy, Pulses

According to Bimal Kothari, Vice Chairman, IPGA, the notification will certainly control the prices to a certain extent

IPGA has welcomed the government’s move of extending open general license (OGL) on Tur and Urad till March 31, 2023. It’s a well-planned decision which will benefit the trade and industry as well as consumers. IPGA has been in constant dialogue with the various ministries to recommend a consistent and stable import policy and is glad that this notification for 12 months is a step in that direction.

Bimal Kothari, Vice Chairman, India Pulses and Grains Association (IPGA) says, “We have imported over 22.6 lakh tonne of pulses in 2020 – 2021. We still need about 10-12 per cent pulses imports for increased consumption. There were concerns over the scarcity of tur and urad which would have impacted the prices. The current prices of tur and urad are above MSP. This notification will certainly control the prices to a certain extent. Production of tur is around 40,00,000 tonne and NAFED does not have the stock. Tur is selling above MSP price around Rs 67 – 68. We were expecting the prices to increase but since the imports are opened up, we will be able to import around 2 – 2.5 lakh tonne of tur from Myanmar. Additionally, the tur crops from Africa will harvest in August 2022 and the production is likely to be very good. This will supplement our demand in September to November which is the festival period in India as our crop will harvest only around December and would have created shortage.”

Kothari added, “There is no crop of urad before September in India and also there’s been an increase in prices of urad by Rs 7-8 in the last one month. Burma is the only supplier of urad to India and they have harvested a very good crop and the production is expected around 7-8 lakh tons. India imports urad from Myanmar regularly to meet the gap between demand and supply. Hence the extension of OGL is a strategic move by the government and will help stabilising the supply and prices.”

According to Bimal Kothari, Vice Chairman, IPGA,