The government Saturday put on hold non-basmati rice export in the wake of litigation over the process adopted by the Commerce Ministry for implementation of an Empowered Group of Ministers (EGoM)

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Rice traders are looking at the Kakinada belt of Andhra Pradesh as the main sourcing point to ship out non-basmati grain, following the Empowered Group of Ministers' (EGoM) decision to allow up to 10 lakh tonnes (lt) of export.

According to trade sources, double-polished parboiled rice with five per cent broken content is available within 100 km of Kakinada port today at about Rs 17,000 a tonne

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