In the meeting of the Empowered Group of Ministers (EGoM) on Food chaired by Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee on 9 February 2011 it was decided that the three-year-old ban on export of non-basmati rice will be lifted. The EGoM allowed export of three varieties of non-basmati rice- Sona Masuri, Rosematta and Ponni Samba variety of rice grown in Andhra Pradesh, Kerala and Tamil Nadu only after imposing quantitative restriction and setting a minimum export price.
The government also decided allowed export of a particular variety of onion grown in Karnataka. The ban on onion will continue. However the Rose variety of onion grown in Karnataka and not consumed domestically has been permitted to be exported.
The department of Food will prepare a report on the production, consumption and prices of onion. The report will be prepared to enable the government to take a further view on lifting the ban on export of regular onion in the face of protests by Nashik onion growers against the crash in wholesale prices.
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