Ukraine crisis & opportunity for India to export wheat
March 20, 2014
The crisis in Ukraine may give India an opportunity to export more wheat, provided we ship out more, as our central pool stood at 24.2 million tonnes, twice more than the buffer and strategic needs
AK Ramdas
Despite the US and European threats and entreaties, Russia went ahead supporting the referendum, which overwhelmingly approved Crimea to become a member state of Russia. In effect, this peninsula was part of Ukraine and is now under Russian control.