In the past few months, the Union Government has been direct interventions through retail sale of basic food items such as rice, atta, dals and onion have also helped in maintaining a stable price regime.Joshi further said that the Centre has taken various policy measures to ensure the availability of pulses.“In order to encourage domestic production, the government has raised the MSP of pulses year after year, and also announced the policy to procure Tur, Urad and Masur without a ceiling for 2024-25 season,” said Joshi.The government has been trying hard to douse the price fire of pulses. It has taken many steps to augment domestic production and at the same time facilitate seamless import.The government has allowed duty-free import of Tur, Urad, Masur and Chana till 31st March 2025 and Yellow Peas import till 31st December, 2024.With respect of vegetables, the government had procured 4.7 lakh tonnes of onions from the rabi crop for price stabilisation buffer through NCCF and NAFED. The government started the disposal of onions from the buffer from 5th September 2024 and to date, 1.15 lakh tonnes have been disposed of.
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