The Food Corporation of India has denied reports of a large-scale rice diversion for ethanol. Investigations are focused on a small quantit...

The finance ministry has rejected a proposal to increase the food subsidy outlay, citing a need for prudent spending. Instead, the Departme...

India, facing massive rice inventories exceeding government targets, is diverting record amounts of rice, 5.2 million metric tons, for etha...

The Bharat rice will be sold in packs of 5kg and 10 kg at Rs 29 per kilo, he added through NAFED, NCCF, Kendriya Bhandar apart from the onl...

FCI Chief Ashok K Meena expressed concern over rice inflation and urged traders to buy rice under the Open Market Sale Scheme (OMSS) to boo...

The Congress on Sunday alleged that the Centre is "sabotaging" its Anna Bhagya guarantee in Karnataka and asserted that the 10 kg free rice...

Under the Pradhan Mantri Garib Kalyan Ann Yojana (PMGKAY), 800 million poor people are entitled to 5 kg free foodgrain every month.

For the 2021/22 fiscal year, India's total outlay toward the food subsidy is expected to cross Rs 2.1 lakh crore ($28.7 billion), but the b...

FCI in a statement stated that as part of the Economic Measures (Atma Nirbhar Bharat), Government of India has allocated free food grain fo...

FCI has transported 2.2 million tonnes of food grains to various parts of the country to help states distribute subsidised as well as free ...

“State governments are requested to lift their quota of food grains from Food Corporation of India for free distribution of the 5 kg food g...

We are also prepared to provide them 5 kg free foodgrain for the next three months, as announced under PM Garib Kalyan Ann Yojana (PMGKAY),...

Government has released funds to the tune of Rs 1.07 lakh crore to cash-strapped FCI so far this fiscal, which is an all time record.

The FCI's subsidy has risen sharply due to increase in the MSP for wheat and rice and high procurement, storage and distribution costs.

Government will sell wheat in open market from Food Corporation of India's (FCI's) stock as part of its measures to keep prices under contr...

Out of 10 million tonnes of wheat, 8.5 million tonnes would be sold from Punjab and Haryana to bulk consumers at Rs 1,500 per quintal.

State-run Food Corporation of India (FCI) has announced record procurement of more than 500 lakh tons of wheat and rice this year, which wi...