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Food Corporation of India is committed to enhancing the procurement of wheat in eastern states, including UP region, and ensure benefit of minimum support price (MSP) to small and marginal farmers.
FCI has made all arrangements to ensure prompt payment to farmers during the current Rabi Marketing Season (RMS) and has fixed a target of procuring 30 lakh tonnes wheat from Uttar Pradesh region, FCI General Manager DS Chauhan said on Tuesday.
Specification change“To avoid any hardship to farmers because of losses to wheat crop due to unseasonal rain and hailstorm, the Centre has relaxed wheat specification in shrivelled grains... so that farmers get full MSP,” he added.
MSP for wheat has been fixed at ₹1,450 per quintal this year, he said after a presentation before the Union Minister for Consumer Affairs, Food and Public Distribution, Ram Vilas Paswan, at Faizabad.
Production in UPChauhan said the overall production of wheat in UP is 350 lakh tonnes and procurement in central pool during past two years was only 6.82 lakh tonnes and 6.28 lakh tonnes, which is just about two per cent of the total production as compared to overall national average of 30 per cent.
He added that the annual requirement of wheat in UP region is about 48 lakh tonnes wheat and 32 lakh tonnes rice and due to low procurement in UP, about 64 lakh tonnes foodgrains had been inducted by FCI from Punjab and Haryana during 2014-15.
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