In the ensuing Rabi season, it is expected that around 10 lakh tonne of CMR will be procured in the state, he said. "Thus, a total of 54 la...

Union Food Secretary Sudhanshu Pandey clarified the Centre's position on the procurement of parboiled rice after Telangana Chief Minister K...

Leading the dharna will be KCR's son and Cabinet minister KT Rama Rao and daughter and TRS member of Legislative Council Kavitha Kalvakuntl...

The entire cost of rice fortification - around Rs 2,700 crore per annum - would be borne by the government of India as part of food subsidy...

“So far, 96% of the total rice procurement of 3.72 million tonnes have come from Punjab and Haryana. Farmers are coming to mandis in large ...

The official said that the procurement has progressed well with all kinds of precautions and sanitisation in mandis. Food ministry said the...

The rice procurement target set for this year was 37.5 million tonnes.

Procurement is undertaken by state-run Food Corporation of India (FCI) and state agencies for the central pool to meet the requirement of f...

For the 2017-18 season, the government has fixed paddy MSP of 'common' grade variety at Rs 1,550 per quintal, while that of 'A' grade varie...

The government's rice procurement has increased by over 21 per cent to 28.41 million tonnes so far in the 2015-16 marketing year.

Paddy procurement by the Food Corporation of India has seen an increase this year despite 2015 having been a monsoon deficit year.

Government's rice procurement may surpass last year's level of 32 million tonnes in the 2015-16 marketing year despite prospect of lower pr...

Official auditor CAG has pointed out nine major cases of irregularities, all of which put together add up to Rs 40,564.14 crore.

It also said the continuous mono-cropping is affecting soil health. Farmers are growing those crops on which states fix bonus.

Odisha government will write to the Centre urging it to relax the norms of paddy procurement from the state by accepting discoloured paddy.

Despite a significant increase in support prices and bumper production of rice, farmers in eastern states are forced to sell the grain at m...

Rice procurement by the govt touched a record 35.02 MT in the 2011-12 marketing yr that ended last month.