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Consider the following statements :
- 1. India is a member of the International Grains Council.
- 2. A country needs to be a member of the International Grains Council for exporting or importing rice and wheat
Which of the statements given above is/are correct ?
Answer a.
Option (a): only statement 1 is correct. India is a member of the International Grains Council, but IGC membership is in no way a licence or precondition for trading rice and wheat. The International Grains Council is an intergovernmental body operating under the Grains Trade Convention 1995, successor to the International Wheat Council of 1949; India is a member. Its functions are cooperative and informational — market analysis, price indices, consultations among exporting and importing members — not regulatory. Grain trade is governed by national policy and by WTO agreements (notably the Agreement on Agriculture), so any country, member or not, can export or import rice and wheat. Statement 2 confuses a consultative forum with a trading permit.
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