In the wake of the government's ever-changing policy in pulses, the country and abroad are in turmoil

- Increased again after lowering the stock limit: Although not raising the limit for retailers created a strange situation!

The country's pulses market has recently seen a rapid reversal of trends in equations in a short span of time. Pulses and pulses markets and government measures related to these markets have been in the news recently. The government's policies towards this market have been discussed across the border in overseas world markets and some of the issues of this policy have been discussed at the doorstep of the World Trade Organization recently. Earlier, the Central Government imposed various restrictions on the import of various pulses in the country, which angered the exporting pulses to India and took the issue to the World Trade Organization. While this question was still being debated, the central government decided to impose stock limits on various categories of pulses in the country's pulses market traders, retailers, wholesalers, millers, importers etc. The various classes associated with pulses and lentils were shocked. In fact, when the government decided to impose such a stock limit, the decision to impose a stock limit on pulses came at a time when the prices of pulses were running low in the country's markets and many pulses were seeing market prices even above the support prices. Traders in the pulses market across the country were outraged by the issue and the weapon of market closure was not raised against the government in some states. However, the government may have been wise to increase such speculations, as the government has recently relaxed such stock limits and increased such stock limits for various classes. However, the question was resented by retailers of pulses. This is because the retailers were annoyed with the government's decision to maintain the five-tonne stock limit imposed on them and the issue has been raised by the retailers' associations in the Delhi court.

Meanwhile, while the government has increased the stock limit for wholesalers of pulses from 500 tonnes to 200 tonnes, the government's decision to maintain or not increase the stock limit for shopkeepers to five tonnes has come as a big surprise. The question of why such relief has not been given to retailers after the stock limit was increased for pulses millers was being discussed in the market at the time of writing. According to the new guidelines, such stock limits have been waived in Tuvar, Adad, Masur, Chana etc. While the stock limit for wholesalers has been increased to 500 tonnes, retailers will be reluctant to buy more goods in the wholesale market if such a limit of only five tonnes is maintained for retailers who deliver goods from these wholesalers to consumers. Market insiders were predicting a strange situation where goods would not be allowed in the shops.

The relief to the pulses stock limit has also come as a relief to the farming community. The pace of monsoon has picked up after the recent rains in the country and the pulses market is keeping an eye on how the rains are moving forward. The onset of rains had an adverse effect on pulses cultivation in the country. However, according to the latest news, Karnataka in South India has seen an increase of 11 to 12 per cent in tuvar cultivation. While the area under tuvar cultivation has decreased in Maharashtra, there are indications that the area under tuvar cultivation has increased in Karnataka. In Karnataka, so far this year, the area under tur has increased to more than 1 million hectares, up from about 3 lakh to 4 thousand hectares in the same period last year. However, in Maharashtra, the area under tuvar has decreased from 11 lakh 3 thousand hectares to 10 lakh 3 thousand hectares during this period. Meanwhile, Telangana, Madhya Pradesh, Gujarat, Uttar Pradesh v. Such plantings have increased overall in the states. On a nationwide basis, the total area under such cultivation has increased from 3 lakh to 30 thousand hectares this year as compared to about 3 lakh 40 thousand hectares last year. However, on a nationwide basis, there has been a decline in the area under mug and urad cultivation during this period. However, with the onset of rains again, the picture of various pulses in the country is likely to become clearer in the first week of August, agronomists said.