These concerns that were conveyed to the petroleum ministry stem from India becoming import dependent for a grain that it typically exports.
As a shiny red harvester bounces across the black earth into the first row of sugar cane, excited schoolchildren run after it and several dozen men stand gaping in the wake of its swift progress.
It is learnt that the farm ministry proposes 16% rise in rice buying price. Anil Mittal, CMD, KRBL in an interview with CNBC-TV18, said that the 16% price hike will effect inflation because the rice prices in the inflation factor is already quite high.