Govt may consider wheat import as shortage, rising inflation worries loom

The looming shortage and rising prices now have authorities making preparations to buy from overseas

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi boldly declared that his country was ready to “feed the world” after Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. Less than four months later, the government needs to consider grain imports.
 

Even before Modi made his pledge, a record-breaking heat wave that started in March was threatening Indian wheat output. That cut production and pushed up local prices, making everyday life more expensive for hundreds of millions of Indians that use the grain to make staple foods like naan and chappatis. 

Indications that a bumper wheat harvest wasn’t going to eventuate prompted the government to restrict exports