In fact, we often have to sell sunflower at deep discounts, added the blue-turbanned Singh, a participant in the farmers daily sit-ins on the edge of the capital, New Delhi.
Such a switch by farmers in the breadbasket states of Punjab and Haryana could cut shipments of edible oils that have tripled over the last two decades to rack up India s third biggest import bill, after crude oil and gold.
That would also melt bulging inventories of rice and wheat worth billions of dollars that lie unsold in government warehouses, after years of bountiful harvests.
But industry experts say grain growers are unlikely to make the switch in large numbers unless the government offers financial assistance.
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