New Delhi, April 17 -- India and Myanmar have set up a new forex payment mechanism via the Punjab National Bank to ease cross-border movement of goods, especially pulses, which Indian importers are being encouraged to use to avoid logjams, a top official said. Consumer affairs secretary Nidhi Khare last week reviewed trade arrangements between the two countries to speed up import of pulses from the conflict-ridden country, which is a major supplier of pigeon pea (tur) and black gram (urad) to India. Last year, the government found that importers of tur and black gram were hoarding their purchases in Myanmar by not bringing them to India immediately. This had created artificial scarcity and stoked prices. The consumer affairs ministry cracked down on hoarding by asking stockholding entities to declare pulses inventories held by them on a weekly basis effective April 15. The top bureaucrat virtually discussed with the Indian mission in Yangon issues related to pulses imports from Myanmar....