A senior official from the Indore-based regional center of the Indian Agricultural Research Center (IARI) gave this information. According to trade experts, “durum” wheat, considered ideal for preparing semolina, porridge, semolina and pasta, is in great demand on the international market these days.
Amid the crisis between Russia and Ukraine, it is estimated that the area cultivated with “durum” wheat in Madhya Pradesh will increase to around 13 lakh hectares during the current rabies season. A senior official from the Indore-based regional center of the Indian Agricultural Research Center (IARI) gave this information. According to trade experts, “durum” wheat, considered ideal for preparing semolina, porridge, semolina and pasta, is in great demand on the international market these days.
Indore-based IARI regional center director Dr KC Sharma told “PTI-Bhasha”: “We estimate that during the current rabi season, durum wheat was sown on 13 lakh hectares in Madhya Pradesh, while that in the last rabi session, the area under this variety of wheat in the state was around 12 lakh hectares Sharma said that due to better productivity and higher demand in the food processing industry, Madhya farmers Pradesh are giving special preference to durum wheat planting these days, he said, “The trend of government agencies and farmers has also increased for this wheat in Madhya Pradesh’s neighboring state of Uttar Pradesh.”
Sharma said durum wheat is colloquially called “Malvi” or “Kathia” wheat and his center established in the year 1951 has so far developed about 20 varieties of this wheat species. He said durum wheat grains are harder than normal wheat and naturally contain nutrients such as iron and zinc. Significantly, Russia and Ukraine are among the world’s top suppliers of wheat, but due to the protracted war between the two countries, the world’s supply of this food grain is being disrupted, so importers are looking towards India.
However, in May 2022, India banned wheat exports to stem a sharp rise in prices for its staple grains amid concerns that the heat wave would hit wheat production. Director General of the Directorate General of Foreign Trade (DGFT), Santosh Kumar Sarangi, had said in January that the government would make an appropriate decision on the demand to lift the ban on exporting wheat at harvest time around March-April. .
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