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  • India exported 1.5 LMT wheat to Bangladesh since ban

    INDIA HAS exported 1.5 lakh metric tonnes (LMT) of wheat to Bangladesh because the nation banned export of the grain on May 13, Food Secretary Sudhanshu Pandey stated on Wednesday.

    Addressing a press convention, Pandey stated, “There are many countries [which have requested import of wheat from India]. We would not like to discuss… This is a matter of foreign policy.”

    However, he refused to reveal particulars of the requests obtained from different nations for wheat import from India.

    When requested concerning the development in atta (flour) exports, the Food Secretary stated, “The trend is on the high side.”

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    Partha S Das, Joint Secretary, Department of Food and Public Distribution stated India exported 29.70 LMT of wheat and a pair of.59 LMT of atta between April 1 and June 22 this monetary yr.

    Responding to questions, Das, who heads the committee that considers different nations’ requests for wheat import from India, stated requests have been obtained from fairly a couple of nations and people are “under consideration”.

    On May 13, the federal government had banned all shipments of wheat with rapid impact. It moved the export of all wheat, together with high-protein durum and regular gentle bread varieties, from “free” to the “prohibited” class. The resolution was aimed toward controlling rising costs of wheat within the home market.

    In wake of the Russia-Ukraine struggle, the demand for Indian wheat has elevated abroad. In the present monetary yr, the federal government estimates about 45 LMT of wheat to have been contracted for exports.

    In response to a question, S Jagannathan, Joint Secretary, Food Department stated about 4.74 crore ration playing cards have been deleted up to now eight years. It has prevented diversion of meals subsidies of round Rs 33,600 crore yearly, he stated.

    Discussing the edible oil costs, the Food Secretary stated main edible oil manufacturers have minimize costs by Rs 10-15. He stated the well timed interventions on a number of fronts by the federal government have led to a falling development in edible oil costs.

  • Centre permits 18 % rest for shrivelled wheat from Punjab & Haryana; however procurement over

    Express News Service

    CHANDIGARH: The Centre has allowed rest in procurement norms for shrivelled wheat grains as much as 18 per cent towards the sooner specification of 6 per cent with any worth lower for the central pool from each Punjab and Haryana.

    This, because of the abnormally excessive temperatures.

    A letter written on Friday by Vishwajeet Haldar, Deputy Commissioner (Storage and Research Division) in Union Ministry of Consumer Affairs, Food and Public Distribution to Secretary Department of Food, Civil Supplies and Consumer Affairs, Punjab and Additional Chief Secretary Department of Food, Civil Supplies and Consumer Affairs, Haryana states, “I’m directed to a DO acquired from Punjab and Haryana looking for rest within the uniform specification of wheat for Rabi advertising season 2022-’23 because of the excessive, sudden and unprecedented heatwave within the state. In this regard, it’s to convey that the matter has been examined  and with a view to scale back the hardship of the farmers and to keep away from misery sale  of what the competent authority has determined to accord the request of the state.’’

    “Accordingly it has been determined to obtain wheat from Punjab, Haryana and Chandigarh (Union Territory) with the next relaxations within the uniform specs of wheat for the central pool procurement. The restrict of shrivelled grain and damaged grains of wheat in all districts of Punjab and Haryana together with   Chandigarh (Union Territory) could also be relaxed as much as 18 per cent towards the present restrict of 6 per cent underneath uniform specs with any worth lower,’’ reads the letter.

    It additional states, “the wheat so procured shall be stacked and accounted for individually. The rest granted is topic to the situation that any monetary or operational implications on account of this rest shall be sole duty of the state authorities of Punjab and Haryana together with Chandigarh (Union Territory). Any deterioration of wheat inventory procured underneath the relaxed scheme throughout storage shall must be the only duty of state governments.’’

    But apparently the procurement in each states is over. While the wheat procurement this yr by authorities businesses in Punjab until yesterday has been 96.15 Lakh Metric Tonnes (LMT) towards the goal of 132 LMT and personal merchants bought 6.09 LMT.

    A couple of days in the past the Centre had ordered one other recent sampling of the shrivelled grain, one other issue for the low yield this yr. Sources mentioned the grain throughout has shrivelled by 10 to twenty per cent as per the evaluation of 5 Central groups.

  • After paddy file, wheat procurement at all-time excessive

    Amid protests in opposition to the three farm legal guidelines, the procurement of wheat has soared to an all-time excessive, a file seen with paddy as effectively.
    The newest information obtainable with the Food Corporation of India (FCI) exhibits wheat procurement reached 405 lakh metric tonnes (LMT) until May 29 within the ongoing rabi advertising and marketing season (RMS)—4 per cent larger than 390 LMT in RMS 2020-21. The present 12 months’s wheat procurement determine is the very best ever.
    This can also be the primary time that wheat procurement has crossed the 400 LMT mark.
    In the present rabi advertising and marketing season, the very best wheat procurement—132 LMT—has been reported from Punjab. The state is adopted by Madhya Pradesh (127 LMT) and Haryana (84.93 LMT).
    Last 12 months, Madhya Pradesh was the highest wheat procuring state.
    During this rabi season, wheat procurement has been larger in each Punjab and Haryana, that are the epicentre of farmers’ agitation. Last 12 months, the wheat procurement figures for Punjab and Haryana have been 127 LMT and 74 LMT respectively.

    The file wheat procurement comes simply after the all-time excessive procurement of paddy. In the 2020-21 kharif advertising and marketing season, paddy procurement was 789 LMT—in comparison with 773 LMT in KMS 2019-20, in accordance with FCI information. The highest paddy procurement has been reported from Punjab. It is adopted by Telangana, Odisha, Andhra Pradesh, Uttar Pradesh, Chhattisgarh and Haryana.
    According to FCI, there have been about 19,036 wheat procurement centres through the ongoing 2021-22 rabi advertising and marketing season, whereas the variety of procurement centres for paddy was 73,870 throughout KMS 2020-21.
    The Centre procures foodgrains with two targets—guaranteeing MSP to farmers and availability of meals grains to the weaker sections at inexpensive costs below the general public distribution system.

    According to FCI, the overall inventory of meals grains—wheat, rice and coarse grains within the central pool is round 1,000 lakh metric tonnes—wheat (525.65 LMT), rice (304.85 LMT), unmilled paddy (262.20 LMT equal to 176 LMT of rice) and coarse grain (7.50 LMT). In May final 12 months, foodgrain inventory within the central pool was round 800 LMT.
    The present foodgrain inventory is far larger than buffer inventory norms. According to the present foodgrain stocking norms, efficient since July 2017, a complete amount of 210.40 LMT of wheat and rice is required because the operational inventory and strategic reserves as of April 1, adopted by 411.20 LMT as of July 1, 307.7 LMT as of October 1, and 214.10 LMT on January 1 yearly.

  • Riding on direct cost, Punjab wheat procurement hits new excessive

    In the midst of the second coronavirus surge and the agitation by farmers in opposition to agricultural legal guidelines that has been now on for 5 months, Punjab has surpassed all earlier information in wheat procurement for the rabi season.
    Government businesses have procured 132.08 lakh metric tonnes of wheat, 2 lakh metric tonnes greater than the goal set by the state, with greater than 9 lakh farmers receiving over Rs 23,000 crore straight into their financial institution accounts. It was the primary time in Punjab that farmers have been paid straight as an alternative of by arhtiyas or middlemen.
    At 34 days, this rabi advertising season, that started on April 10 and ended Thursday, was 12 days shorter than final yr.

    Food Corporation of India information present that that is the best wheat procurement in Punjab’s historical past. The quantity was underneath 100 lakh metrict tonnes until 2009-10. At over 9 lakh, the variety of farmers who got here with their grain to mandis this yr can be increased than the determine of 8.8 lakh final yr.
    While the procurement was lesser within the Malwa area, the epicentre of the farmers’ agitation, the soar in Doaba and Majha made up for it. In reality, the districts that noticed lesser procurement in comparison with final yr barely outnumbered those who noticed increased.
    Incidentally, the upper procurement was regardless of a barely lesser yield. While the climate was largely beneficial, an unusually heat March meant the common was 49 quintals per hectare in comparison with 50.04 per hectare final yr.
    Ravi Bhagat, Director, Department of Punjab Food Supply and Consumer Affairs, mentioned direct cost into the accounts was one of many foremost causes for this. “The government has registered farmers on the Anaj Kharid portal and the money was credited into their accounts, not those of arhtiyas… Punjab has also become the first state where the J form that carries the details about the crop a farmer sells to the government is included in the Digilocker. He is not dependent on a middleman for getting the J form.”

    Bharatiya Kisan Union (Dakaunda) chief Jagmohan Singh additionally mentioned that one of many essential causes extra wheat got here to mandis was direct cost of MSP into accounts, which meant farmers went there as an alternative of to flour millers.
    A Punjab Mandi Board official mentioned the opposite motive was that farmers sitting on dharna additionally needed to benefit from the MSP (Rs 1,975 per quintal), believing it could not final. According to him, extra wheat additionally landed in authorities mandis as a consequence of lesser non-public gamers available in the market as a consequence of Covid.
    One such farmer, Gurdip Singh of village Chak Kalan close to Jagraon in Ludhiana district, mentioned he had sown wheat on 20 acres and bought round 400 quintals for Rs 8 lakh. “I am very happy with this system with money coming directly. I sold my entire crop to government agencies as the MSP was also better this time.”
    Eight massive wheat-contributing districts, all in Malwa area, noticed procurement fall this yr, together with Sangrur, Muktsar Sahib, Moga, Mansa, Fazilka, Faridkot, Barnala and Bathinda. However, procurement rose sharply in Doaba area’s Jalandhar, Hoshiarpur, Nawanshahr and Kapurthala districts; and Majha’s Amritsar, Gurdaspur, Pathankot and Tarn Taran districts.
    With round 35 lakh hectares devoted to wheat cultivation, Punjab produces round 17-18 million tonnes wheat yearly, with farmers bringing roughly 75% of it to mandis.

  • Arhtiyas finish stir, wheat procurement begins

    PROCUREMENT OF wheat crop commenced in Punjab after arhtiyas known as off their strike and agreed to DBT (Direct Benefit Transfer) of the MSP into farmers’ accounts.
    Punjab Chief Minister Amarinder Singh, on his half, mentioned the state would instantly launch Rs 131 crore to the arhtiyas pending for over 18 months with out ready for the Food Corporation of India (FCI) to launch funds.
    The FCI had withheld the dues since many arhtiyas had not fed farmer particulars on the Punjab Financial Management Service Portal.

    Interacting with arhtiyas by video conferencing Saturday, Amarinder Singh mentioned regardless of the Centre’s directive to exclude them (arhtiyas) from MSP funds, they “shall always be associated with procurement”.
    “Till I am there, you will be part of the system,” he mentioned, including he’ll make sure that the arhtiya fee and different expenses permitted beneath the APMC Act proceed.
    Meanwhile, in yet one more association, the state authorities additionally instructed arhtiyas it’s going to ship an SMS alert to them together with farmers after cash is transferred into farmers’ financial institution accounts.
    H S Rosha, former president of Khanna Ahrtiya Federation, mentioned, “This alert will help us in keeping our relationship (give-and-take) with farmers. With no option but to opt for DBT, this alert will keep our system running.” Earlier, an arhtiya obtained the cash for the crop, deducted his instalment, after which transferred the funds to the farmers.
    The CM additionally assured arhtiyas that his authorities will take up with Centre the problem of 30 per cent deduction in labour funds made by the FCI.
    The interplay between CM and arhtiyas occurred over video name throughout their assembly with Punjab Food Minister Bharat Bhushan Ashu in Ludhiana’s Bachat Bhawan.
    Though ahrtiyas had introduced the strike on Friday protesting DBT, farmers had began bringing crop to the mandis within the night time and morning hours on Saturday.
    It got here in 349 out of the entire 4,000 buy centres. The first buy was finished from Rajpura the place Cabinet Minister Bharat Bhushan Ashu began the procurement drive.
    “On day one of procurement drive, 28,807 metric tonnes (MT) of wheat arrived in Punjab mandis of which only 2,642 MT was purchased by the government purchase agencies,” mentioned Ravi Bhagat, secretary, Punjab Mandi Board.
    However neither any lifting nor any fee was finished on day one. At majority buy centres, fee brokers acknowledged that they’ll begin the method from Sunday or Monday.

    Meanwhile, DBT shall be finished within the account of the farmer who’s farming on land whether or not a contract farmer or the land proprietor himself, mentioned a Mandi Board Official, claiming that as of now the problem of submitting land data with Food Corporation of India has been postponed.

  • Centre agrees to reschedule wheat procurement in Punjab

    Due to “late maturity of the crop” and the Covid-19 pandemic, the Centre on Saturday permitted the Punjab authorities’s request to reschedule the wheat procurement interval.
    According to an announcement from the Union Ministry of Consumer Affairs, Food and Public Distribution, the procurement for Rabi Marketing Season (RMS) 2021-22, initially slated between April 1 and May 25, is now scheduled to final between April 10 and May 31.
    “The request made by Government of Punjab for rescheduling wheat procurement period during Rabi Marketing Season (RMS) 2021-22, due to late maturity of crop & surge in Covid-19 cases in the state, has been considered and the request of the State Government was approved by Government of India for rescheduling…” it acknowledged.
    The authorities is estimating procurement of 130 lakh metric tonnes (LMT) of wheat from Punjab in RMS 2021-22 — marginally greater than the 127.14 LMT procured in RMS 2020-21.
    Across the nation, the federal government expects to obtain 427.36 LMT wheat in RMS 2021-22 — 9.56 per cent greater than the 389.93 LMT procured in RMS 2020-21.

  • Wheat procurement might rise 10% in 2021-22 advertising yr

    The authorities expects to acquire 427.36 lakh metric tonnes (LMT) wheat through the upcoming rabi advertising season (RMS) 2021-22, with the best amount of 135 LMT wheat estimated to be procured from Madhya Pradesh.
    In an announcement on Tuesday, the Ministry of Consumer Affairs, Food and Public Distribution stated, “A total quantity of 427.363 LMT wheat has been estimated for procurement during the forthcoming RMS 2021-22 which is 9.56% more than the 389.93 LMT procured during RMS 2020-21.”
    In the present rabi crop season, wheat manufacturing is estimated to succeed in an all-time excessive of 10.92 crore tonnes through the present crop yr (July-June), which is 1.28 per cent increased than the earlier excessive of 10.78 crore tonnes in 2019-20.

    Earlier, Punjab was the main state to produce the best amount of wheat for the central pool. However, final yr, Madhya Pradesh took a lead over the state.