Government sets up more than 18,000 storage houses under rural godown scheme

KOLKATA: The government has set up 18,041 storage facilities with a capacity of 24.46 million tonnes for providing scientific storage facilities to the farmers under the rural godown scheme.

Agriculture marketing being a State subject, state governments provide necessary post-harvest and marketing infrastructure in their States. With a view to bring improvement in post-harvest and marketing infrastructure, reduce post-harvest losses Central Government implements Scheme for development/strengthening of agricultural marketing infrastructure, grading and standardisation ( AMIGS) and Rural Godown Scheme (RGS).

Under AMIGS, a total of 9134 post-harvest and marketing infrastructure facilities of different types have been assisted in the country since inception till June 2013.