Date:08/08/2006 URL: http://www.thehindubusinessline.com/2006/08/08/stories/2006080800011300.htm

Back Stable prices

K.K. Mustafah

ON LEASH: Pulses displayed for sale at a shop in Kochi. The country's pulses production has remained stagnant at 13-14 million tonnes, while demand has increased on population and economic growth. As a result, prices of pulses increased this year, forcing the Centre to ban pulses export and import though the National Agricultural Cooperative Marketing Federation and other agencies. Since then, prices are on leash.