The Union Govt has chalked out a system for modernising storage of foodgrains in steel silos. By 2024-25, all foodgrains in the region will be saved in modern day silos and typical storage amenities will be phased out step by step, Food and Community Distribution Secretary Sudanshu Pandey explained on Thursday.
From this yr, the governing administration has resolved to not give permission to retail outlet grains in lined plinth and parts that are open to sky. The Centre has cleared an additional twenty per cent capacity to warehouses that are able of storing much more grains. This one step has assisted build an additional 160 lakh tonnes storage capacity in present warehouses with a total capacity of 816 lakh tonnes, explained Pandey at a press briefing here.
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Procurement companies have procured 64.7 lakh tonnes (lt) of wheat until Wednesday for the present rabi marketing time that commenced on March fifteen. The Centre is “confident” of procuring the estimated 427.36 lt of wheat, virtually 37 lt much more than former year’s report wheat procurement of 389.93 lakh tonnes.
Although much more than 30.one lakh tonnes of wheat have been procured in Haryana, twenty.63 lakh tonnes and ten.56 lakh tonnes of wheat have been procured in Madhya Pradesh and Punjab, respectively, so much. The total procurement through the corresponding period of time previous yr was mere sixty tonnes as the procurement functions have been afflicted by the sudden lockdown imposed by the Union Govt at first.
Pandey many thanks Punjab govt
Pandey thanked Punjab Govt, arhtiyas (commission agents) and farmers in the Point out for creating direct lender transfer (DBT) achievable for wheat procurement less than the bare minimum aid cost (MSP) plan for developing buffer shares. The shares are procured by the Food Corporation of India for distribution of foodgrains by ration shops and less than numerous welfare strategies.
He assured the arhtiyas that their commission much too would be transferred immediately to their lender accounts. Punjab and Haryana have been the previous two States in the region to go to the DBT manner and the plan is applied from the present rabi time.
“There is no stakeholder curiosity clash or encroachment in Punjab. Arhtiyas are acquiring their commission separately by the electronic-manner of payment. Before, the MSP was heading to farmers by arhtiyas and now it is getting immediately transferred to farmers online,” he explained.
Pandey explained so much ₹12,800 crore has been transferred to the lender accounts of six,sixty,593 farmers in 11 States throughout the region. Although procurement commenced in Madhya Pradesh and Rajasthan on March fifteen and in Haryana on April one, it began in Punjab on April ten. The Food Secretary explained that the procurement will get more momentum following Baisakhi, which was celebrated on Tuesday.
Pandey denied that considerable quantities of grains are weakened owing to very poor situations of godowns in the region. He explained the grains shed owing to very poor storage in previous two a long time have been .006 per cent and .004 per cent respectively.
According to Pandey, an additional storage capacity of 100 lakh tonnes is getting created in India to strengthen the storage infrastructure. A steel silo of has now appear up in Ahmedabad, though a pilot job is heading on in Buxar in Bihar to examination the viability of steel silos for prolonged-phrase storage of rice.
The Food Secretary admitted that there is a cost rise in oilseeds but attributed it to a variety of global things such as crop injury to oil crops in Latin American nations around the world (Soyabean) and Ukraine (Sunflower). However, he also pointed out that the farmers in the region benefited as costs of soyabean and castor seeds are ruling earlier mentioned MSP.
