India decides to allow export of rice to Singapore in view of special relationship

New Delhi, 30/8: The government has decided to allow Singapore to import rice from India, relaxing the ban it had imposed on the export of the grain in July.

India has decided to allow the export of rice to meet the food security requirements of Singapore, Arindam Bagchi, the spokesperson of the Ministry of External Affairs (MEA), said in New Delhi on Tuesday.

Singapore had requested New Delhi to allow it to import at least 110,000 tonnes of rice from India, relaxing the ban on the export of the grain.

 

 

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