Bhubaneswar: Notwithstanding high decibel denials by State Government on widespread paddy distress sale, the shocking home truth seems contrary as this Kharif Marketing Season (KMS) Odisha government opened fewer paddy purchase centres across the State. Curiously, a whopping around 640 less paddy procurement centres were opened by the Food and Consumer Welfare Department in 2018-19 […]
Bhubaneswar: It’s a big development. The strange paradox bugging State’s much touted e-procurement system is while the procured paddy/rice quantum had shown a spike over the years, the number of farmers benefitted had shown a significant deceleration. Consider this. In Odisha, the number of farmers benefitted from the Minimum Support Price (MSP) announced by Centre […]
Bhubaneswar: Even as the political pot in Odisha over MSP has attained the boiling point on Friday when BJD RS MP Sasmit Patra took pot-shots at BJP for not implementing the Swaminathan Commission report recommendations in Toto, Patra hit the rhetoric crescendo on the floor of the Upper House. Speaking loud and clear he claimed […]
Bhubaneswar: With only a dozen days left for the Kharif procurement season in Odisha to end, the shocker is only 79 per cent of registered farmers have sold their paddy at MSP. As per the data available with the Odisha Food Supplies and Consumer Affairs Department, only 11.6 lakh, from a total of 14.72 lakh […]
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