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The Punjab Rice Millers Association general house on Wednesday unanimously decided not to participate in this year’s paddy procurement process and allow government agencies to store grains in their mills till the time their issues are resolved. Tarsem Saini, president of the Punjab Rice Millers Association, said, “We don’t have the space to store fresh paddy for milling, as our …

Centre assures early lifting of food grains Fixes ₹2,320 per quintal for grade ‘A’ paddy

The Food Corporation of India, which manages the government’s granaries, has spruced up its countrywide operations, introducing artificial intelligence-based equipment to detect fraud in its processes involving millions of farmers, a large network of transporters and silos, an official said. The agency now uses AI-based grain sorters to examine the quality of wheat and rice it buys from farmers, …

Vijayawada: Food Corporation of India is e-auctioning wheat in the AP region on October 26th to control prices of food grains in the open market. FCI AP region general manager Chandrasekhar Joshi said food processors and atta, chakki and flour millers can participate in the e-auction. Chandrasekhar said to participate in the e-auction, the bidder must have a valid FSSAI …

The story so far: States have been looking at alternative ways of procuring wheat and rice in the aftermath of the Food Corporation of India’s quantity restrictions followed by the refusal to allow states to procure the two food grains through its Open Market Sale Scheme. While the Centre has made it clear that the reason for first restricting supplies …

Amid a political slugfest over the discontinuation of the sale of rice and wheat from the Central pool to State governments, the Government on Thursday said the decision was not “deliberate” and was only aimed at controlling retail inflation in food grains. Karnataka Chief Minister Siddaramaiah and other leaders of the Congress party have hit out at the Centre, accusing …

The Centre has discontinued the sale of rice and wheat from the central pool under the Open Market Sale Scheme to State governments, a move that will hit some States, including Karnataka, offering free grains to the poor. FCI may liquidate rice under the OMSS to private parties from the central pool stock as per the requirement in order to …

Sugarcane alone is not sufficient to achieve the 20% blending target, said Union Food and Public Distribution Secretary Sanjeev Chopra on Tuesday. “However, only sugarcane route is not sufficient to achieve the 20% blending target, therefore, ethanol from food-grains such as maize, damaged food grains and rice available with Food Corp of India has also been allowed,” Chopra said while …

CBI raid: The Central Bureau of Investigation on Wednesday conducted searches at around 50 locations in connection with alleged corruption in the Food Corporation of India, officials informed. In the ongoing crackdown, officials associated with the Food Corporation of India and owners of Grains Mills have been raided. Roles of various top officials are under scrutiny The role of officials …

The story so far: A month after setting sail on the Ganga from Patna, the MV Lal Bahadur Shastri carrying 200 metric tonnes of food grains for the Food Corporation of India, docked at Guwahati’s Pandu port on the southern bank of the Brahmaputra on March 6. The docking of the vessel carrying 200 MT of food grains for the …

The Food Corporation of India is leaving no stone unturned when it comes to safely storing the food grains meant for distribution in various public schemes. We are also going to increase around 8 lakh MT storage capacity in Uttar Pradesh soon.” “Meanwhile, we are also coming up with modern storage facilities in Uttar Pradesh like Silos, where food grains …

₹406 crore grains lost in storage: House panel

India lost ₹406 crore worth of grains procured by the government due to damage during storage in state-run granaries in the past three years, data cited in a parliamentary standing committee report has revealed. Operational norms assume there will be some loss while undertaking large procurement operations, but data cited in the parliamentary report shows the quantity of grains lost …

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According to recent reports, the Food Corporation of India has proposed revised norms to procure food grains. Farmers allege govt wants to tighten norms to kill MSP As soon as FCI’s recommendations were made public, it drew criticism from the farmer unions who alleged that the governments want to let go of Minimum Selling Price and reduce procurement by making …

The Economic Survey, tabled in Parliament in January, rightly flagged the issue of a growing food subsidy bill, which, in the words of the government, “is becoming unmanageably large”. image/svg+xml 2016-17 2017-18 2018-19 2019-20 2020-21 2021-22 Food Subsidy To FCI* 78,334 61,981 70,098 75,000 3,44,077 + 2,02,616 Food Subsidy for Decentra-lised procurement of food- grains* 27,338.35 38,000 31,029.49 33,508.35 78,337.77 …