BW BusinessWorld – Online

The government of Chhattisgarh has placed 2.84 million tonnes (mt) of rice in the central pool for the kharif marketing season (KMS) 2022-23. The Food Corporation of India (FCI) has set a goal of buying 5.86 million tonnes of rice from the state for the central pool. In the kharif season, Chhattisgarh will be the second largest rice contributor behind Punjab. The FCI would purchase 12.2 million tonnes of rice from Punjab. “So far, 4.71 mt of rice has been deposited in the central pool,” a state government spokeswoman said. 2.84 million tonnes have been placed with the FCI, while 1.86 million tonnes have been deposited with the Civil Supplies Corporation. The latter has used ...

The Financial Express – Online

Millets, christened as ‘Shree Anna’ by Prime Minister Narendra Modi, are back in focus, thanks to the government’s policy push. Not only is 2023 the ‘Year of Millets’, as designated by the United Nations General Assembly upon India’s proposal, the Parliament canteen, too, has gotten a new menu that includes traditional yet increasingly disappearing dishes like jowar vegetable upma, bajra khichdi, ragi ladoo, and bajre ka choorma. The Union Budget, too, held provisions for millet outreach, like anointing Hyderabad-based Indian Institute of Millet Research (IIMR) as a Centre of Excellence (CoE), for sharing best practices, technologies and research regarding millets. “In the past, millets suffered primarily due to lack of policy support vis-a-vis other ...

Hindustan Times – Online

As wheat harvesting is in full swing in southwest Punjab, Mansa is leading among the seven districts of the region with more than 1.57 lakh tonnes of grain arriving in mandis till Saturday, according to officials. Punjabi Mandi Board data reveals that wheat arrivals in the region have seen a sharp surge since Monday. Agriculture experts attribute it to rise in temperature, which has touched 40 degrees Celsius, after unseasonal rains in March-end and early April delayed harvesting. Field officials of the state agriculture department say the initial yield results are encouraging and the impact of unfriendly climatic conditions during the last phase of crop ripening is hardly visible.