Tag: Odisha Procurement

Bhubaneswar:  Even as Odisha has recorded normal rainfall this Monsoon, the revelation to the fore is the coverage of paddy sowing in State has slid by a whopping nearly 7 per cent till August end. As per the data available with the State Agriculture Department, the coverage of paddy cultivation till August end this year […]

Bhubaneswar: When the State government has set the paddy procurement target at 60 Lakh MT for 2019-20 Kharif Marketing Season (KMS), the revelation is State agencies are still saddling with a whopping around 4.19 lakh MT (metric tonnes) un-milled paddy of the total procured in 2018-19 season. The disconcerting fact here is as per the […]

Bhubaneswar: With the paddy procurement in Odisha being bedeviled by centralised token system, the disconcerting impact is paddy prices at many places in Sundargarh have fallen below MSP (Minimum Support Price). For instance, as per the reports from market yards, the paddy prices at Bonai has dropped to Rs 1750 per quintal vis-a-vis the MSP […]

Bhubaneswar:  Even as the State Food Supplies & Consumer Welfare (FS&CW) Minister Ranendra Pratap Swain denies of paddy prices dropping below Minimum Support Price (MSP) at isolated open markets in Odisha, the daily  report of the State Agricultural Produce Market Committee, functioning under the State FS&CW department, reveals that paddy (common) prices have dropped below […]