Tag: Paddy Procurement

Bhubaneswar: Farmers in Odisha are clueless about the process for kharif paddy procurement which is scheduled to begin from November 1. Hemakant Badhei, farmer leader, Lakhanpur, said, “Awareness should be created among farmers as they don’t know the rule for selling of paddy to the government.” Expressing similar views, Narottam Bangola, a farmer of Nuapada […]

Bhubaneswar: The Odisha cabinet approved as many as 19 proposals at a meeting held on Thursday evening. The cabinet meeting which was chaired by Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik approved the Food and Procurement Policy for Kharif Marketing Season 2016-17. In the policy, the state government has set a tentative target of collecting 30 lakh metric […]

Bargarh: A day after the Comptroller and Auditor General (CAG) report picked up loopholes in paddy procurement by Odisha government, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) demanded a CBI probe into the matter in Bargarh on Tuesday. Blaming the State government for its ‘anti-farmer’ policy, the saffron party said the government must pay the farmers their […]

Bhubaneswar: The Comptroller and Auditor General (CAG) report on the General and Social sector for the year ended 2014-15 revealed irregularities in various departments of the State government. Noting that a robust system for paddy procurement was absent in Odisha, the CAG today said Paddy Procurement Centres (PPC) were not functioning properly due to delay […]

Bhubaneswar: The State government has decided to stop paddy procurement for the Rabi season after June 30, Food minister Sanjay Dasburma said here today. Farmers can register themselves for Rabi procurement till June 25. “I request the farming community to register before June 25 if they have surplus paddy to sell. The procurement will continue […]

Bhubaneswar: Paddy procurement for the Rabi season will begin across 19 districts in the second week of May and continue till June 30. The decision was taken at a meeting of the State level paddy procurement committee today. According to sources, the paddy procurement target for the Rabi season has been set at 10.29 lakh […]

Sonepur: Though Rabi season has passed and cultivation has started for the Kharif season, farmers of Sonepur district are yet to sell off their paddy harvested in the Rabi season. With mill owners showing no interest in procuring paddy, the Rabi season’s produce is lying at the Regulated Marketing Committee (RMC). At a time when […]

Chandigarh: Punjab has procured over 115 lakh tonne of paddy this kharif season, food and supplies officials said on Monday. Government agencies and private millers have procured 11,592,262 tonne of paddy in Punjab till Sunday evening.Over 99 per cent of the paddy has been procured by government agencies while the remaining has been procured by private […]

Bhubaneswar: The Odisha cabinet on Monday approved the food and procurement policy for the Kharif marketing season 2018-19 with a target to procure 55 lakh tonnes of paddy from farmers. This will be equivalent to 37 lakh tonnes of rice, Chief Secretary A.P. Padhi said. However, there is no bar on the procurement of a […]

Even as the State BJP is up in the arms over alleged irregularities in the procurement of unsold paddy from the farmers, the Odisha government seems to have robbed salts into the wound by outright refusing to procure the grains for the current season.

Odisha BJP has written a letter to Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik and demanded to extend the validity of tokens by 15 more days so that farmers can sell their paddy without any hassle in the State

Bhubaneswar: Soon after coming to power in Chhattisgarh, the Congress government announced a hike in the minimum support price (MSP) of paddy to Rs 2,500 per quintal from Rs 1,750. While the announcement is seen as an act against the guidelines that restrict States in the country from declaring bonus for paddy over and above […]

Hitting out at the BJD-led Odisha government over massive irregularities in Mandis, the State BJP has decided to take to the streets for two days- July 1 and 2.

The deadline for farmers in Ganjam district to register their names online for paddy procurement has been extended till April 15.

Berhampur: Different farmers organisation today staged demonstration at Chhatrapur, Ganjam district headquarter town, protesting alleged distress sale of paddy in the district and demanded procurement of all grains from farmers, including the share croppers by the government agency. Though the farmers this time harvested bumper paddy due to good climatic condition, the government agencies refused […]