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CM Baghel wrote a letter to the Food Minister
CM Baghel wrote a letter to the Food Minister
Raipur. Chhattisgarh CM Bhupesh Baghel has written a letter to Piyush Goyal, Minister of Food and Public Distribution, Government of India, to maintain the target of rice procurement in the central pool at 86.5 lakh MT in the Kharif marketing year 2023-24. Has requested. Also, it has been requested to issue necessary instructions to get 3.56 lakh bales of new jute bags supplied through the Jute Commissioner for packaging the resulting rice.
Requested to give 3.56 lakh knots of new jute bags
CM Bhupesh Baghel has written in the letter that according to the proceedings of the meeting of Food Secretaries on August 21, 2023 issued by the Department of Food and Public Distribution, Government of India, on August 28, 2023, 86.5 percent of the resultant rice made according to the estimation of paddy procurement in the state is 130 lakh tonnes. The quantity has been reduced to 61 lakh metric tonnes. Apart from this, the sixth supply plan of jute packaging, dated 6 September 2023, has been reduced to 2.45 lakh knots instead of 3.56 lakh knots, reducing the supply quantity of new jute gunny bags required for rice procurement in the central pool.
Center reduced Chhattisgarh’s earnings estimate
Referring to the discussion held in the meeting of Food Secretaries on August 21, 2023, CM Mr. Baghel said that in this meeting, on behalf of the Chhattisgarh government, in the Kharif marketing year 2023-24, the state government has set a limit of 20 quintals per paddy purchase. Referring to increase in acres, which was fixed at 15 quintals per acre from the Kharif marketing year 2014-15 for the past several years, a request was made to keep the target of procurement of 86 lakh metric tonnes of rice in the central pool unchanged. Along with the increase in paddy area in the past years, there has been an increase in productivity in view of the use of improved varieties of seeds and better fertilizer management by the farmers of the state, especially in the plains of central Chhattisgarh, due to which the demand made by farmers’ groups On the basis of this, increasing the limit of paddy purchase in the state from 15 quintals per acre, the state government has fixed a maximum of 20 quintals per acre.
Government estimates procurement of 130 lakh tonnes of paddy this year
Based on the first advance estimate by the State Agriculture Department, paddy production has been estimated at 136.5 lakh tonnes in the area of paddy sown in the state of 36 lakh hectares. Barring a few places in the state, the monsoon conditions are in line with the paddy crop. Due to shortage of water at some places in the irrigated area of the state, arrangements for irrigation have also been made through canals. In view of the above arrangement, it is inevitable that the production of paddy in the state will be more than the advance estimate.
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