The Food Corporation of India (FCI) and state agencies have procured 85.41 lakh metric tonnes (LMTs) of paddy in Punjab during the ongoing kharif marketing season 2024-2025 as of November 2, according to a statement issued by the Union Food Ministry on Sunday.
The Food Corporation of India (FCI) has initiated the upgradation of the current analog CCTV surveillance system to a modern IP-based CCTV surveillance system in its storage depots.
The Food Corporation of India (FCI) has successfully developed several state-of-the-art silo projects under the Public-Private Partnership (PPP) model toward modernisation of India’s food grain supply chain, ensuring efficient and sustainable storage and movement of essential commodities.
The Department of Food and Public Distribution (DFPD) and the Food Corporation of India (FCI) have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) for FY 2024-25 to enhance the efficiency and accountability of food grain procurement and distribution.
The decision has been taken to reduce the huge surplus of stocks prior to the commencement of the new procurement season, he added.
The gang used to issue fake appointment letters, conduct bogus training programs and provide fabricated government department identity cards to job seekers.
Amid the ongoing row over sale of rice to Karnataka by Food Corporation of India (FCI), the Congress has opened a new front against the Centre saying that the BJP has avenged its election loss in Himachal Pradesh by slashing import duties on Washington apple.
The Centre has decided to discontinue the sale of rice and wheat from the central pool under the Open Market Sale Scheme (OMSS) to state governments.
The official informed that the FCI has bought paddy of farmers through Agricultural Produce Marketing Committee at nine procurement centers in the state.
Our self-sufficiency in food grain production has been achieved through the pursuit of exploitative agricultural practices in the name of the Green Revolution, which laid emphasis on the production of two water-intensive crops rice and wheat. It has wrested areas from coarse cereals, pulses and oilseeds and left a trail of ecological hazards depletion of soil nutrients, biodiversity, resurgence of pests and plant diseases, creation of salinity and water logging.
