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FCI recruitment 2019: 330 posts vacant; know eligibility, fees and more

The application process for FCI recruitment 2019 will begin from September 2018

FCI versus NPC versus CCP

If you are a farmer in a video game called Real Life, FCI is your buyer of last resort

FCI faces stiff competition from private players for wheat procurement

The government owned Food Corporation of India (FCI) faces stiff competition from private players including local stockists and multinational companies for wheat procurement due to the grain price quoting at above the minimum support price (MSP) this season.While the FCI is laying emphasis primarily on urban areas and large mandis in the vicinity, private players move door-to-door for collection of wheat directly from farmers by offering price higher than the MSP. Following this, FCI has also started setting up camps near major harvesting centres to ease farmers' transportation and selling fears."So, there is a neck-and-neck competition between the FCI and private players in Madhya Pradesh where procurement has already started about a week ago. We believe, only half of quantity offered by farmers has come to the FCI while the other half goes to private players," said a senior FCI official involved in wheat procurement in Madhya Pradesh.Trade sources believe that the government has ...

FCI stares at storage space shortage

After two years of smooth functioning due to lower quantity of grain procurement, storage issue might spark at the government owned Food Corporation of India (FCI) once again due to a sharp increase in the target of wheat purchase for rabi harvesting season this year.The Ministry of Consumer Affairs, Food and Public Distribution in a statement on February 15 set a target of 33 million for wheat procurement for the marketing season 2017-18 (beginning April 2017), a 33 per cent increase from the previous year's actual procurement of 22.96 million tonnes. While the target is fixed for the entire year, much of its procurement is done in the first three months between April and June.Similarly, for the kharif marketing season 2016-17, government agencies including the FCI and state government's warehousing companies have accumulatively procured a total 43.71 million tonnes of paddy by Feb 15, 2017. Apart from that, the FCI in association with Small Farmers' Agribusiness Consortium (SFAC) ...

Cabinet clears Rs 45,000 cr loan to FCI from Small Savings Fund

Repayment obligation of the FCI will be treated as the first charge on food subsidy released to FCI

FCI finalises bid for construction of 27 silos food grain storage

FCI is set to get 1.35 million tonnes of additional capacity of food grains storage in two years

FCI sells 24.61 lakh tonnes wheat in Apr-Sep under OMSS

In the entire last fiscal 2015-16, FCI had offloaded about 70 lakh tonnes of wheat under the scheme

FCI restricts wheat sale to bulk buyers to 2,000 tonnes

Aim is to ensure against hoarding by bulk buyers, with apprehension of a repeat on what had happened with pulses last year

Pension okayed for FCI staff

The entire expenditure for the pension and medical scheme would be borne from the savings of FCI over the past 3-4 years

FCI to raise Rs 20,000 cr short-term loan

Corporation is raising a loan because its subsidy arrears have touched Rs 58,650 crore, as on March 31

FCI inks pact with Adani Group

The two silos would have a combined storage capacity of 75,000 tonnes