This time the import of urad has increased more than double compared to last year

11-Jun-2024 04:28 PM

Chennai. During the first two months of the current financial year, the import of urad increased to around 1.39 lakh tonnes, which is more than double i.e. 82 thousand tonnes more than the import of 57 thousand tonnes in the same period last year. Under this,

the import of urad jumped from 25 thousand tonnes in April 2023 to 68 thousand tonnes in April 2024 and from 32 thousand tonnes in May 2023 to above 70 thousand tonnes.

According to the available data, during the entire period (April-March) of the financial year 2023-24, a little more than 6.24 lakh tonnes of urad was imported in the country,

which was more than the import of 5.25 lakh tonnes in 2022-23 and 6.12 lakh tonnes in 2021-22. Earlier, 3.45 lakh tonnes of urad was imported in the financial year 2020-21 and 3.12 lakh tonnes in 2019-20 as the annual quota system was applicable on it at that time.

Urad is imported into India only from Myanmar. In May 2024, a total of 70,400 tonnes of urad was imported inside the country,

out of which 59,974 were imported at Chennai port alone, while 6299 tonnes were imported at JNPT (Mumbai) and 4126 tonnes of tuvar were consigned at Kolkata port.

The government has already allowed duty-free and control-free import of urad till 31 March 2025. The price of this important pulse in the domestic sector is running much higher than the minimum support price.

Soon the sowing of Kharif urad is going to start in full swing and its area may increase if there is good monsoon rain.