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Amid the heat of the ongoing Lok Sabha electioneering, the Centre has announced plans to significantly increase wheat purchase from non-traditional States of Uttar Pradesh, Rajasthan and Bihar and set a target of seven-fold jump in procurement to 50 lakh tonnes in the ongoing 2024-25 marketing year. Further, even as the ban on outbound shipments…
Union Food Secretary, Sanjeev Chopra | Photo Credit: The Hindu The Union government has no proposal to resume sale of subsidised rice to grain-based distilleries for the production of ethanol, Food Secretary Sanjeev Chopra said on Thursday, April 5, 2024. “Since July last year, rice has not been diverted for ethanol production. There is no…
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The Union Food Ministry indicated that it is willing to make changes to the Open Market Sales Scheme after the first e-auction of rice | Photo Credit: SHIV KUMAR PUSHPAKAR As the Congress attacked the Centre on Monday over the reluctance of private players to auction rice from the Food Corporation of India (FCI) under…
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