Agricultural price commission for increasing foodgrain procurement
The Hindu
‘Govt. should procure 5.29 lakh tonnes of ragi and 5 lakh tonnes of jowar’
The Karnataka Agricultural Price Commission (KAPC) has recommended to the State Government to seek permission from the Centre for increasing the procurement of quantity of foodgrains under the MSP for distribution at subsidised prices under the public distribution system (PDS).
The State needs about 20 lakh tonnes of rice for distribution under PDS for its beneficiaries at the rate of 3 kg per beneficiary. Currently, the Centre has fixed the cap for procurement at five lakh tonnes only, the KAPC said in a report.
KAPC chairman Hanumanagouda Belagurki submitted the report for the year 2021-22 on the ground reality of crop produce, pricing and marketing in the State to Chief Minister Basavaraj Bommai on Tuesday.
A group of 13 men from Dakshin Datta Para village in Nadia district, West Bengal, busy transplanting paddy has been catching the eye of many in Mayildathurai district in recent days. A video clip of the Bengali migrant agricultural workers Singing Hindi and Bengali songs while planting paddy at Nallathukudi village here has gone viral.