India News | Dharmendra Pradhan Urges Piyush Goyal to Direct FCI to Procure Parboiled Rice from Odisha
Get latest articles and stories on India at LatestLY. Union Education Minister Dharmendra Pradhan has requested his cabinet colleague Piyush Goyal to direct the Food Corporation of India (FCI) to procure 10 lakh metric tonne (MT) of parboiled rice from Odisha in 2023-24 financial year.
New Delhi [India], January 17 (ANI): Union Education Minister Dharmendra Pradhan has requested his cabinet colleague Piyush Goyal to direct the Food Corporation of India (FCI) to procure 10 lakh metric tonne (MT) of parboiled rice from Odisha in 2023-24 financial year.
On Tuesday, in a letter addressing the Consumer Affairs Minister, Pradhan requested to issue instructions to FCI to procure 10 LMT of parboiled rice from Odisha in addition to augmentation of procurement targets, which will significantly help secure the livelihood of lakhs of farmers of the state whose main source of income has been through MSP operations of paddy procurement.
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"As you may be aware, Odisha is the fourth largest paddy-producing state in the country. In the Kharif Season of 2023-24, the rice yield in Odisha has been indeed phenomenal and procurement has already commenced which is accruing good return to lakhs of farmers in the state of Odisha through the MSP operations, "Read the letter.
"The government of India has allocated a target of procuring 44.28 LMT of rice in the KMS 2023-24 in the initial allocation target. However, besides meeting the state's own requirement of rice for NFSA, SFSA and other welfare schemes, enough parboiled fortified rice would be left which needs to be evacuated by the FCI, read the letter further.
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However, besides meeting the state's own requirement of rice for NFSA, SFSA and other welfare schemes, enough parboiled fortified rice would be left in excess, which needs to be evacuated by FCI, the Minister said. (ANI)
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