Various measures like reduction in import duties and cess on pulses, rationalisation of tariff, imposition of stock limits on edible oils and oilseeds, buffer stock maintenance of onion and pulses have all helped in restraining the soaring commodity prices due to pandemic-induced, supply-demand imbalances, the government said.
New Delhi [India], October 14 (ANI): There is an urgent need to allow exchange trading in palm oil and soybean oil as an absence of futures trading, which facilitates hedging, has led to "heavy financial loss" for importers of these commodities during the past three-to-four months, according to the edible oil industry body The Solvent Extractors' Association of India.