Maharashtra, somehow, failed to put a finger on the pulses crisis. The State has so far shown little urgency in lifting the un-milled pulses from the Centre’s buffer stock (at Rs. A senior FCI official said they had started procuring pulses since January — tur at Rs 8,900 per quintal, urad at Rs. This was followed by midnight raids on consignments at ports and seizure of nearly 74,846 tonnes of pulses from alleged hoarders. In October 2015, the government misinterpreted central directives and lifted the ‘stock limit’ on pulses at 4 p.m. on October 19.

Source: The Hindu June 28, 2016 00:13 UTC