The United States has directed India to lift its prohibition on wheat exports. Earth Situation News
The United States has directed India to lift its prohibition on wheat exports. 17, 2022, a laborer at a wholesale grain market in Ghaziabad prepares to put a sack of wheat into a customer's car. India's wheat production has been impacted by scorching weather, with the nation seeing its hottest March on record, forcing the government to forecast a 5 percent drop in output this year from 109 million tones in 2021. -AFP US, UN: The US hopes India will lift its prohibition on wheat exports, according to the country's senior UN ambassador, who warned that the move would exacerbate global wheat shortages. \"We're pushing nations not to restrict exports because we believe that any restrictions on exports would worsen food shortages," Linda Thomas-Greenfield said ahead of a UN Security Council meeting on food security. The United States has directed India to lift its prohibition on wheat exports. India's minister of state for external affairs, V-LaVall...