Covid-19: Supply of pulses to ease soon as Nafed ties up with dal mills

Nafed will supply the mills whole grains for processing and will get the processed dal for the government's planned distribution under PDS

The supply of pulses is likely to ease over the next one week, with the government taking steps to smoothen the process across the entire value chain.

Nafed, the Centre’s commodity procurement agency, has tied up with dal mills to supply whole grain (raw material) for processing, and to get processed dal for the government’s planned distribution through public distribution system (PDS), according to people in the know. Both the Centre and state governments have decided to supply 1kg per beneficiary of processed dal to millions of consumers over the next three months.

Nafed executives could not be contacted. However,