Rice, wheat procurement remains ‘consistently’ low; House panel raises concern
A parliamentary panel headed by Kanimozhi Karunanidhi has urged the Ministry of Consumer Affairs, Food and Public Distribution to strengthen grain procurement planning in India. The committee noted that actual procurement of wheat and rice has consistently remained below estimates in recent years across several states.
Expressing concern that actual procurement of rice and wheat has consistently remained below estimates in recent years and below targets in States such as Bihar, Gujarat, Punjab and Uttar Pradesh, Parliament Standing Committee on Consumer Affairs, Food and Public Distribution — headed by senior DMK MP Karunanidhi Kanimozhi, has asked the Union Food Ministry to strengthen its procurement planning and coordination with States to minimise the gap between estimated and actual procurement of both the food grains.
In a report on the Demands Demands for Grants of the Department of Food and Public Distribution, the panel noted that since 2022-23 the procurement of wheat and rice has been less than 30% of the total production. “Moreover, actual procurement of wheat has been 76.71%, 71.35% and 87.29% of the estimate for the years 2023-24, 2024-25 and 2025-26 respectively. Similarly, the actual procurement of rice has been less than target since 2022-23,” the report revealed.
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Source : The Hindu
