India: 5,000 Wheat-Laden Trucks Stuck Due To Export Ban, Madhya Pradesh Traders

NEW DELHI, 17 May 2022, (TON): An outfit representing agriculture-based businesses said “about 5,000 trucks laden with the commodity and sent by Madhya Pradesh traders for overseas shipments are stuck at two major ports of the country due to the move.”

The organisation Madhya Pradesh Sakal Anaj Dalhan Tilhan Vyapari Mahasangh Samiti, a federation of wheat, pulses and oilseeds traders, announced to close their business in 270 agricultural produce markets of the state, in protest against the ban on wheat export.

The outfit, which has demanded lifting of the ban, said large consignments of wheat were transported from the state through these trucks to ports for export.

Gopaldas Agrawal, Mahasangh president, told media "due to the sudden ban on wheat export by the central government, about 5,000 trucks loaded with the grain, sent by the state's traders, are standing at Kandla (Gujarat) and Mumbai ports.”

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