-The Hindu Business Line Food Secretary tells millers the Centre may release stocks under OMSS or lower import duty Taking a serious view of the 10 per cent surge in Wheat prices since June-end, the Centre is considering various measures to bring down the prices—from releasing the cereal under the open market sale scheme (OMSS) for user industries to lowering the import duty to zero. Please click here to read more. ...
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Crop diversification promotion scheme launched in MP; focus on natural farming -Sravani Sarkar
-TheWeek.in Efforts on to substitute Wheat and paddy crops with other market-driven crops Madhya Pradesh government launched a crop diversification promotion scheme with focus on natural farming and on substituting Wheat and paddy crops with other crops that are suitable for local climate and are market driven. The crop diversification scheme has been launched for three years starting the current financial year (2022-23), to encourage demand-based crop diversification, keeping in mind the economic...
More »India’s ‘Wheat waiver’ WTO demand is risk-fraught -Prabhash Ranjan
-The Hindu Such a stand will dilute its core agenda of pushing for a permanent solution to public stockholding for food security One of the cardinal demands of India in the World Trade Organization (WTO) — and rightly so — has been to find a permanent solution to the issue of public stockholding (PSH) of food to protect India’s food security (PSH policy). India’s PSH policy is based on procuring food from...
More »UP: No Govt Funds for Mid-day Meals for over 3 Months, Headmasters Forced to Raise Money -Abdul Alim Jafri
-Newsclick.in The Education Department has attributed the delay in payment to the non-release of the funds by the state Finance Department. Lucknow: Government schools in Uttar Pradesh have reportedly not received any money for mid-day meals for the last three months, preventing some schools from serving food to children under the scheme. In a few schools, teachers and gram pradhan (village head) have been spending from their own pockets or buying rations...
More »No respite for common man? After Wheat and flour, now prices of maida soar -Harpreet Bajwa
-The New Indian Express The market buzz is that at Kandla port in Gujarat, from where maida is traded abroad, the price has touched around Rs 3,000 per quintal. CHANDIGARH: The prices of maida (refined Wheat flour) are soaring due to escalating international prices following the Ukraine conflict. The result is bakery products such as bread and biscuits could be costlier soon. Sources said the price of Wheat has touched Rs 2,350 per...
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