Sugar, pulses and edible oil companies expect sales to pick up this month, after plunging to one of their lowest levels in a decade in May, with the country starting to open up after the lockdown and restaurants opening in many states.

With most lockdown restrictions lifted across most of the country, supply pipelines have started filling up, boosting sales, industry players said. Sales of pulses had slumped to 300,000 tonnes in May against the normal monthly average of two million tonnes…