India's ban on rice and wheat exports has been a failure

Grain prices have soared, but New Delhi is at last changing course

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Workers load wheat at a wholesale market in New Delhi: The imposition of restrictions covering the majority of India's grain exports was irresponsible and futile. © Hindustan Times/Getty Images

Prerna Sharma Singh is a director and co-founder of policy research and advisory company Indonomics Consulting in New Delhi and heads its agriculture, food and retail practice.

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