VOA - India has begun using a new traderouteto Afghanistan. India sent its first shipment of wheat to Afghanistan by way of the Iranian port of Chabahar. The shipment will not pass through Pakistan, which lies directly between the two countries. The Pakistani government refuses to let India transport goods to Afghanistan through Pakistani territory....

(Reuters) - Iran's state grain buyer has been in talks with export houses aimed at buying around 110,000 tonnes of U.S.-origin milling wheat, traders said, even as the United States and Europe impose toughened sanctions to stem Tehran's nuclear programme. Iranian wheat imports are traditionally handled by the private sector and government, but the ...

Iran has had a 100-fold increase in wheat imports in the first 9 months of the current Iranian year, Pana news agency reported. Majid-Reza Hariri, deputy head of the Iran-China Chamber of Commerce said that compared to previous year (2011), Iran has increased its wheat imports significantly. "In the first nine months of 2011, Iran imported 52,000 ...

By The Daily Star NEW DELHI: India can offer Iran quality wheat, Farm Minister Sharad Pawar said on Tuesday, as the world's second-biggest wheat producer tries to trim the grain stocks and trade deficit with the sanction-hit Middle East country. Wheat stocks with state-run Indian agencies are more than local requirement as the country produced ...

By Economic Times NEW DELHI: Agovernment delegationwill visit sanctions-hitIranon October 6 to clinch awheat exportdeal, a senior official said today. India lifted ban on wheat exports in September 2011 on account of record production in two consecutive years. Iran, on the other hand, has not been importing Indian wheat since 1996 due to quality ...

By The Wall Street Journal NEW DELHI--After months of negotiations, India is making progress toward a deal to export some of its surplus wheat to Iran, two people with knowledge of the talks said Monday. Iran had expressed an interest in buying Indian wheat as early as March but had objected to the quality of the grain because of the presence ...