Soaring wheat prices in India could prompt price-cooling measures such as the release of state reserves into the open market while axing the 40% tax on imports, trade and government sources said on Thursday.
The government has been trying to rein in food inflation, but its efforts have been complicated by wheat prices that have climbed to record highs.Market arrivals from the previous harvest, meanwhile, have slowed to a trickle as farmers have run out of stocks, growers and traders said.
Local wheat prices jumped to a record 26,500 rupees a tonne on Thursday, up nearly 27% since the May ban on exports."Demand is robust, but supplies are dwindling," said Mansukh Yadav, a wheat trader from the central Indian city of Indore. "Prices are rising and will remain firm until the new-season crop starts next year."
India, which is the world's second-biggest wheat producer but also the biggest consumer of the commodity, could consider offloading state stocks in the market for bulk consumers such as flour and biscuit makers to reduce prices, government sources said. "We are monitoring the price situation closely and we will intervene," said one of the sources, who asked not to be identified so not to breach official rules. "The key question is how much stock do we need to release."At the start of October wheat stocks in state warehouses totalled 22.7 million tonnes, down from 46.9 million tonnes a year earlier, after 2022 domestic wheat purchases fell 57%.
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