Union Minister for Agriculture Sharad Pawar has assured a delegation of Consortium of Indian Farmers’ Association (CIFA) from the State on Thursday that a meeting of the Cabinet Sub-Committee on Economic Affairs slated for December 7 is likely to permit export of non-basmati fine rice from Andhra Pradesh and Tamil Nadu.
In a statement issued here on Friday, K. Somasekhar Rao of CIFA stated that Mr. Pawar had also told them that he had spoken to AP Chief Minister to allow inter-State movement of rice and the latter had assured him of lifting the restrictions in a couple of days.
The Centre would stop procurement of rice in the States that were not allowing inter-State movement of rice.