India says it is fully ready to supply Kuwait with all the food products it needs during the coming period, including wheat, the commodity that India had imposed a ban on export citing shortage.
A local Arabic daily said the Indian Ambassador to Kuwait H.E Sibi George had assured the Minister of Commerce and Industry Fahad Al-Shariaan during a meeting recently New Delhi’s readiness to support Kuwait with the food commodities it needs, recalling the great Kuwaiti role during the corona pandemic, which included supplying India with 215 metric tons of oxygen and more than a thousand cylinders to fill the deficit experienced by India’s hospitals during that period.”
The sources indicated that the Indian Ambassador stressed Kuwait’s role and the importance of its relief campaign in the Corona crisis, expressing his country’s readiness to support Kuwait with all foodstuffs needed, including a decision to lift the ban of wheat exports to Kuwait.
Meanwhile, on the level of food security, the sources revealed that the Competition Protection Authority summoned for investigation a number of companies supplying chicken to the supply sector in the Ministry of Commerce and Industry, against the background of suspicions related to deliberately reducing the flow of their products.
The sources indicated that the CPA officials have recently opened an extensive investigation with some chicken supplying companies after they concluded that they had not notified officials of the Ministry of Commerce or the Kuwaiti Catering Company with any indications that their stock of chicken might be declining, given that the law obliges companies to notify the Ministry of any threats that may impede its flows within 3 months.
The sources indicated that the companies’ call for investigation came because they had not notified the ministry or “supply” officials during the stipulated time frame to show that they might face complications, whether in production or import, which created regulatory concerns that these companies had agreed to reduce their supply of chicken, or at least contractually stipulated conditions and criteria for price increases were not observed.
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