date:Jul 30, 2014
gest rice exporter in 2013, selling more than 10 million tonnes and edging out Thailand. In the year to June 2013, the countrys wheat exports jumped to 8.7 million tonnes, a five-fold gain from a year earlier.
* Still, India has faced stiff competition from Thailand in the global rice market in recent months while bumper wheat production in the Black Sea region has pushed the South Asian nation out of business.
INDIA'S POSITION
* India wants an agreement on food subsidy and stockholding to ru