| Punjab amends paddy procurement policy | 18-NOV-09 |
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| In a move to facilitate smooth lifting of paddy in the ‘mandis’, the Punjab government has amended the provisions of paddy procurement policy to enhance the eligibility quota of the rice mills by 500 metric tonnes (MT) per mill. Disclosing this here today, Food and Civil Supplies Department Director D S Grewal said that under the amended provisions of the policy, a rice mill with an installed capacity of one MT would now be allotted 3,000 MT of free paddy instead of earlier quota of 2,500 MT. Likewise, rice mills with an installed capacity of two MT would now be eligible to lift 4,500 MT of free paddy against the earlier allotted quota of 4,000 MT. The amended procurement policy would be applicable to the districts of Bathinda, Mansa, Sangrur, Barnala, Moga, Faridkot and Muktsar. |
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| DCM Shriram enters milk procurement business | 17-NOV-09 |
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| Hariyali Kisaan Bazaar (HKB), the rural retail arm of DCM Shriram Consolidated Ltd (DSCL), has entered the milk procurement business in Uttar Pradesh and is looking to expand to Rajasthan next month. The milk is being supplied to dairy units and is being mainly used to produce milk powder. |
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| Home Min seeks state views on arms procurement | 28-OCT-09 |
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| As Naxalites violence continued unabated, the Home Ministry today held a meeting of top police officers of the states to solicit their views on the procurement of modern arms and ammunition centrally. |
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| New Defence Procurement Policy on Nov 1 | 27-OCT-09 |
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| India will bring out its new Defence Procurement Policy (DPP) on November 1 to promote joint ventures or co-production arrangements for big foreign original equipment manufacturers (OEMs) with domestic firms. The new policy will incorporate changes in the DPP-2008 released last September. |
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| Rice millers' strike stalls paddy procurement | 09-OCT-09 |
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| The farmers of Punjab who managed to harvest a good paddy crop despite the deficit monsoon are in a Catch-22 situation due to a deadlock between the rice millers and the Government of India. |
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| Govt's rice purchase may fall short of target by 20 per cent | 30-SEP-09 |
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| The government’s rice procurement in the 2009-10 kharif marketing season beginning October is likely to be lower than the target by around 20 per cent. The total procurement is expected at 27 million tonnes as compared with the food ministry’s target of 29.4 million tonnes. Procurement in 2008-09 was at a record 33.3 million tonnes. |
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| State to announce new paddy procurement policy soon | 14-SEP-09 |
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| The Orissa government would soon bring out a new procurement policy for the current procurement season to avoid distress sale of paddy and also to ensure that the farmers get the Minimum Support Price (MSP) for the foodgrain. |
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| EU wants pact to include govt procurement | 11-SEP-09 |
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| Ahead of the next round of talks on a bilateral trade treaty with India, the European Union (EU) today said it was keen that the comprehensive pact included government procurement agreement. |
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| A forward defensive stroke | 06-SEP-09 |
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| Consistent procurement of defence equipment should throw up some multi-baggers in the next few years. |
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| Soft sell, hard issues | 23-JUL-09 |
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| Hillary Clinton’s visit, which concluded on Monday after a flurry of agreements being signed, demonstrated the positives and negatives of the Indo-US engagement in its current avatar. The positives were more in the nature of the softer aspects of the visit, with the US secretary of state meeting businessmen, students and civil society activists; these encounters underlined the values and linkages that bring the two countries together. On the issues which are at the hard edge of diplomacy, what was in evidence most of all were the mine-fields that the two governments have to negotiate. |
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