Thu, Apr 04, 2024
While these three states put together contributed only 6.7 lakh tonnes to the central pool during the 2023-24 marketing year (April-March), the Union Food Ministry has decided to procure 16 per cent of the total wheat procurement target of 310 lakh tonne set for 2024-25.
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Wed, Jan 03, 2024
FCI is the central nodal agency that buys rice and wheat to ensure MSP to the farmers and distributes the grains for free to 81 crore poor via ration shops. It also uses surplus grain via OMSS to boost domestic availability and check prices.
Tue, Feb 21, 2023
The government is continuously making efforts to reduce the prices of wheat and flour. The Centre announced sale of an additional 20 lakh tonnes of wheat in the open market to further bring down the retail prices of wheat and wheat flour. Watch the full news in this video.
Fri, Jul 22, 2022
In 2020-21, the country's wheat production stood at 109.59 million tonnes.
Sun, Mar 06, 2022
India is set to export a record 7 million tonnes of wheat this year.
Thu, Mar 03, 2022
Riding on a possible supply disruption of foodgrains - especially wheat -- due to the ongoing war in Ukraine, wheat`s prices have hit a record high in India. Both Russia and Ukraine are major producers of wheat.
Wed, Nov 29, 2017
India`s production of wheat and pulses is expected to jump in 2018 as a hike in the government`s assured purchase prices and ample rainfall have prompted farmers to plant more of the winter crops, industry officials told Reuters.
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