First Time After 1950s: Wheat Export To India To Restart This Week, India is reported

[MirBadshah]

First Time After 1950s: Wheat Export To India To Restart This Week, India is reportedly facing acute shortage of wheat

KARACHI (April 11 2007): After a long gap of almost half a century, Pakistan will be exporting wheat to India from this week. The Indian traders have approached Pakistan's wheat exporters, as India is reportedly facing acute shortage of wheat, of nearly 5 million tons, traders here told Business Recorder on Tuesday.

"We were approached by some Indian traders in March. They said they wanted to purchase Pakistani wheat, which is being offered at an attractive price, as far as quality is concerned," said a trader.

He said that India is currently facing at least 5 million tons wheat shortage and this wide gap has to be filled through imports. He said that after discussion with Indian importers, a deal of 3,000 tons wheat export to India was finalised, after almost 50 years' gap, as last time when Pakistan had exported wheat to India was in mid-1950s.

Later, a virus, namely 'Karnal Bhand' became a major hurdle in wheat import or exports between the two neighbouring countries. However, now, after 1950s, wheat export to India will be resumed as the first shipment of the commodity would sail to India in the second week of April, he said.

Wheat export deal with Indian importer has been finalised by a Karachi based exporter at the average rate of $218 fob per ton. The wheat would be exported via sea, in containers, which would be loaded from Karachi port and Bin Qasim port and would reach two different ports of India Kandla, he added.

Around 125 containers of wheat would be shipped to India during next one week and first shipment of 45 containers would sail in next two or three days, which would reached India within 24 hours.

India imported around 6 million tons wheat last year, and in the current year it is expected to import more than 5 million tons wheat, as shortfall in wheat production has been forecast there. "This would not be first and the last deal with India, and we are expecting more export orders from there," he said.

He said that indentors have received dozens of wheat import inquiries from Indian buyers and are trying to finalise deals with Pakistani traders. Before Indian wheat export order, Pakistan's exporters had finalised wheat export deals at the price of $215-220 per ton, mainly from Indonesia, Malaysia and Vietnam, in addition to a huge consignment of 0.125 million tons from Dubai, he said.

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[A.Rahman]

I thought that India was full of fertile lands; Are they building property on the fertile lands?!!

 

[MirBadshah]

They tried to built but farmers started protests, 16 were killed before the plan was scraped, last month...................lol

 

[Contrarian]

Yes. That is exactly the problem. India has lots of fertile lands. But they are not managed well. A lot of agricultural land has been used for creating residential areas, SEZ's, etc, etc.

The recent protests in West Bengal were due to this reason among a few others.

 

[Goodperson]

Problem is not of Fertile Land, Problem is Water most of Indian agriculture still depends on Monsoons.
The problem you mentioned was due to SEZ the area is less however political interests had major hand in loss of lives.

 

[Contrarian]

Add to that, that the lands have been divided into really small parts. Land reforms are urgently needed.

 

[Cheetah786]

Add to that, that the lands have been divided into really small parts. Land reforms are urgently needed.

For some strange reason.Indian government has failed to look at the condition of its farmers.
dividing land into small parts was a brilliant move.that saved india the headaches we face in pakistan.where 2% of the population owns 40% of the agricultural land.:wall:

 

[Adux]

Cheetah,
The problem here is inadequate infrastructure to provide water to those lands, Atal Behari Vajpyee came up with a plan of inter-linking rivers, When one part of India is in drought, the other has excessive Rains...Weird.

We have failed miserably in infrastructure creation

 

[Contrarian]

For some strange reason.Indian government has failed to look at the condition of its farmers.
dividing land into small parts was a brilliant move.that saved india the headaches we face in pakistan.where 2% of the population owns 40% of the agricultural land.:wall:

Small lands also has a plethora of problems cheetah. They are so small, mechanised farming cannot be done, etc, etc.

 

[MirBadshah]

No body on earth would be able to feed such a huge population of India, if they did not improved their agriculture, the demand in India would bring the food prices up all around the world making poor more food deficient.

In next fed decades India would have 2 billion people, while 500 million today are sufferning from extreme food shortage it would be around a billion with 2 billion population.

Who would be able to feed a billion people........

 

[Adux]

Mir,

We are getting there, and it is 300 million, still twice the population of pakistan, we reduced 5% of the poverty in the last decade itself. We have a 22% to go. And Indian population wont get to 2 billion in a few decades.

 

[Contrarian]

No body on earth would be able to feed such a huge population of India, if they did not improved their agriculture, the demand in India would bring the food prices up all around the world making poor more food deficient.

In next fed decades India would have 2 billion people, while 500 million today are sufferning from extreme food shortage it would be around a billion with 2 billion population.

Who would be able to feed a billion people........

The problems are RELATIE here. While the population is large, the seeds used and per hectare production of grain is ridiculously low in India, when compared with countries like Japan. As in future decades the population increases so will the productivity per hectare, and thus the ratio would be stable. And if there happens to be another green revolution,well, India would become an exporter of wheat.

 

[MirBadshah]

As in future decades the population increases so will the productivity per hectare, and thus the ratio would be stable.

Which food expert told you that as population increases the per hecter productivity increases with that?

You never fail to make me laugh.................lol

 

[Adux]

Which food expert told you that as population increases the per hecter productivity increases with that?

You never fail to make me laugh.................lol

You are not even understanding him properly, read the post, He is talking about Farm Productivity per acre of land. He is trying to tell you that, If we are capable of lets say produce 100 tones per acre, we are only producing 50 tones per acre. Due to various reasons like no modern farming, lack of monsoon, infrastructure, not enough skilled labour etc etc

Since India has a lot of programs going on to look and solve these problems, and as also since the demand would be so high, which would make modern farming affordable for farmers ;as well as the farmers will be educated enough by the various programs to use various means to increase their productivity.

 

[Neo]

I thought that India was full of fertile lands; Are they building property on the fertile lands?!!

Yes and yes; Large parts of Indian soil is made of vulcanic sediment which usually is very fertile if forseen with good amount of irrigation water.
India depends largely on moonsoon and lacks a good watermanagement system which results in low yield of various crops.

Like Pakistan, India too is promoting SEZ, Small economic Zones, which doesn't neccessarily make her black; SEZ in isolated parts of India is the key factor to revive local economy if it can be oriented towards local green products returning the benefits to the locals instead of the central government which is the traditional buyer in India.