Rice procurement in the Kharif Marketing season 2011-12 (October-September) has crossed the 10 million mark. According to statistics, 10,104,088 Mts. rice has been procured by November 17, 2011 by various government agencies during the current Kharif season.

Punjab has led the States by procuring 7,604,255 Mts. followed by Haryana 1,930,703 Mts., Tamil Nadu 239,051 and Uttar Pradesh 114,903 Mts.

Source – Press Information Bureau website released under the Ministry of Consumer Affairs, Food and Public Distribution.

 

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Rice procurement in the Kharif Marketing Season of 2011-12 (October-September) has also started in some of the states while procurement for last season is still going on in some states. In the season of 2011-12, a total of 90, 46,356 tonne of rice has been procured by the various government agencies by November 04, 2011.

So far highest procurement has been made in Punjab – 69, 56,290 tonne, followed by Haryana – 18, 09,194 tonne and Tamilnadu -1,76,486 of rice.

Rice procurement in the Kharif Marketing season 2010-11 (October-September) has crossed the mark of 341 lakh tonne. According to statistics 341,78,963 tonne rice has been procured by the various government agencies by November 04, 2011.

Andhra Pradesh has led the States by procuring 96,10,417 tonne of rice followed by Punjab – 86,34,553 tonne, Chhatisgarh – 37,40,776 tonne, Uttar Pradesh – 25,53,687 tonne, Orissa – 24,64,285 tonne and Haryana with 16,87,343 tonne of rice.

This Public Distribution related news is according to a release available on Press Information Bureau's Website.

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A delegation of Indonesian National Logistic Agency led by its Chairman,Mr Sutarto Alimoeso, called on Minister of Consumer Affairs, Food & Public Distribution, Prof. K.V.Thomas here today. The delegation has come to explore possibility of import of rice from India. During the meeting, the delegation discussed latest trends in the foodgrain production and increasing requirement of various food commodities. Mr. Alimoeso said that due to shortfall of rice production in Indonesia, there is a need to import rice in his country. India, one of the major producer of rice can fulfill the requirement. The delegation also discussed edible oil requirement of India and its import to India from Indonesia.

Prof. Thomas appraised the delegation of the Public Distribution System or PDS in India and foodgrain productions and management. He said India at the moment has enough foodgrain stock and may consider request of Indonesia. Senior officials of the Ministry of Food and Food Corporation of India were also present during the meeting.

Source – News release from Press Information Bureau GOI website dated 2nd November 2011

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