The government also increased the size of the buffer stock of pulses to 20 lakh tonnes from the current 8 lakh tonnes. To tame pulse prices, the Centre has taken several steps, including imposition of stock limits on traders to check hoarding and imports. India has already signed an agreement with African nation Mozambique for import of tur dal up to 2 lakh tonnes in next five years. While increasing the size of the buffer stock of pulses to 20 lakh tonnes from the existing 8 lakh tonnes, the government decided to explore avenues for imports from more pulse-growing nations on a government-to-government basis. He added that except for chana, there has not been a rise in prices of other pulses over the last two months.

Source: dna July 11, 2016 10:05 UTC