JAMMU, SEPTEMBER
17: The agriculture department today finalized modalities for
the procurement of Paddy after Kharif Season harvest here at a meeting chaired
by Director Agriculture, H. K. Razdan.
The meeting
stressed upon smooth and timely procurement of paddy by the Food Corporation of
India. The arrangement of space, logistic support and necessary facilities for
organizing procurement mandies by the FCI, F, CS&CA and Agriculture
Departments respectively were discussed threadbare.
Instructions were
issued to Agriculture, F, CS&CA and FCI departments to give wide
publicity to purity/quality standards for Grade A and Common Grade paddy
required to make it fit for procurement by FCI at the Minimum Support Price
(MSP). The government has set MSP of Rs. 1770/- per quintal for Grade A and Rs.
1750/- per quintal for Common Grade Paddy.
It was
informed in the meeting that 11 procurement centers for Jammu district, 7 for
Kathua and 1 procurement centers (Mandies) for Samba are being opened this
year to save the farmers from distress sale of their produce.
The meeting was attended by Deputy Director FCS&CA Jammu,
Kulraj Singh, Deputy General Manager, FCI, Jammu, P. K. Behura, Area Manager
FCI Jammu, Rupesh Kumar Shah, AGM, FCI, Jammu, Ashok Kumar Sinha, I/C Deputy
Director Agriculture (Central) Jammu, Jagmohan Bhat, ADO Jammu, S. K. Langer,
CAO Kathua, Arun Gupta, Subject Matter Specialist (DL), S. K. Bhagat and S. N.
Uppal.
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