More than 105 lakh metric tonnes (MT) paddy arrived in marketing yards in Punjab, out of which 104 lakh MT paddy was procured till Saturday
More than 81 lakh metric tonne of paddy has been procured so far in the ongoing Kharif marketing season in Punjab, a senior official said on Thursday. Additional Chief Secretary Anurag Aggarwal said paddy procurement operations were being carried out seamlessly in all grain markets across the state. So far, 84.48 lakh MT paddy has arrived in the mandis, and 81.80 lakh MT has been procured by the various procurement agencies, he said. A payment of more than Rs 11,531 crore has been made to the farmers. Aggarwal was in the Khanna grain market, about 45 km from here, to take stock of the procurement operations. The ACS said the Punjab government was committed to ensure a hassle-free and smooth procurement season and every grain of crops would be procured without causing any inconvenience to the peasantry. He said the farmers were receiving their payments timely besides ensuring foremost priority to prompt purchase. Later, Aggarwal went to the village Libran where progressive farmers
Ground reports show much of the paddy is yet to be harvested in North India due to the delayed withdrawal of the southwest monsoon
As of August 16, the government has rice stocks of around 26.35 million tonnes in the Central pool
Rice procurement a tad higher than 50.98 mn tonnes in 2021-22; market sources say this could be a sign that govt does not expect a major drop in Kharif rice output
Rice procurement a tad higher than 50.98 mn tonnes in 2021-22; market sources say this could be a sign that govt does not expect a major drop in Kharif rice output
The saving grace is that unlike wheat, rice stocks in the central pool are much higher than required
Last year, India produced over 111 million tonnes of rice in the kharif season
Agriculture commissioner A K Singh has said there is a slight deficit in paddy coverage in the ongoing kharif season mainly in eastern India, but it will be recovered with monsoon progressing fast. In the southern region, paddy has been planted in a significant area buoyed by good and well-distributed rainfall. In Punjab, Haryana and western Uttar Pradesh too, there is no cause of concern as of now as the sowing is normally undertaken much in advance with the help of tubewell irrigation, he said. The government has not released the latest data of paddy sowing, but the data available till July 17 showed all-India paddy coverage to be down by 17.4 per cent at 128.50 lakh hectare so far this kharif season as against 155.53 lakh hectare in the corresponding period of the previous year. The sowing of kharif crops begins with the onset of the southwest monsoon in June. Paddy is a major kharif crop. The India Meteorological Department (IMD) has projected a normal southwest monsoon this ...
Paddy procurement in Tamil Nadu has been advanced by one month to September of the 2022-23 kharif marketing season following a request fro the state, Agriculture Minister Narendra Singh Tomar said
Report also suggests that farmers should grow more oilseeds and pulses
While the TRS government has been demanding that the Centre procure paddy from the state, the union government has maintained that it would buy raw rice
Stepping up protest against the Centre's paddy procurement policy, Telangana Chief Minister K Chandrashekar Rao on Monday gave 24 hours deadline to the Modi-government to respond
To mark a protest against the Centre's discriminatory paddy procurement policy, Telangana Government has announced to stage Dharna in Delhi on Monday morning.
Beyond what Sitharaman said about the procurement process in 2021-22, there are several dimensions to this
The paddy marketing season normally begins from October and runs through September
A quantity of 290.98 lakh tonnes of paddy has been procured in KMS 2021-22 till November 30
There was no categorical assurance from the Centre on the quantity of paddy that it would procure from Telangana this season
Land records being integrated into a central database
As many as 20 states, including Punjab and Haryana, have captured and integrated key parameters for cross checking during paddy procurement in the ongoing kharif marketing season