-Hindustan Times The department officials said the idea of storing wheat on the premises of Rice mills could not materialise because they already have an excess paddy stock. Chandigarhh: In the wake of a stalemate with the Food Corporation of India (FCI) over finalisation of storage rates for covered area plinths (storage in open), the Punjab food and civil supplies department has decided to store wheat produce in the state’s grain markets...
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Cash transfer to ration cardholders: Madras High Court dismisses Puducherry Chief Minister's plea -Mohamed Imranullah S
-The Hindu Court holds that V. Narayanasamy could not question the President’s decision concurring with Lieutenant Governor Kiran Bedi, in favour of disbursing cash to ration cardholders. PUDUCHERRY: The Madras High Court on Friday dismissed a writ petition filed by Puducherry Chief Minister V. Narayanasamy challenging a decision taken by the President concurring with Lieutenant Governor Kiran Bedi, in favour of disbursing cash to ration cardholders instead of supplying them Rice as...
More »Organic farming: The food forest of Nayagarh -Satyasundar Barik
-The Hindu Among this year’s Padma Shri awardees are a father and daughter who turned a barren wasteland into a riot of trees and crops Furrowed with deep gullies, its topsoil all but gone, this degraded patch of land near Odagaon in Odisha’s Nayagarh district was once a dense forest. Whenever nature tried to reclaim it, the little shoots would be nibbled away by goats and sheep. The villagers who owned the...
More »Small, marginal farmers hit hard by poor paddy procurement in Bihar -Mohd Imran Khan
-Down to Earth Govt agencies have procured hardly 11 per cent of targeted procurement of paddy since November 15 last year Small and marginal farmers in Bihar are unhappy and worried by the state government’s poor procurement of paddy. The slow speed of paddy procurement that started in Bihar on November 15, 2019, has forced farmers to sell their crop to traders and agents of Rice mills, according to reports from districts. The government’s...
More »How a ration shop in Dantewada is restoring normalcy by providing grains -Gargi Verma
-The Indian Express Thanks to the efforts of district police and administration, villagers are recovering from Naxal violence. Raipur: Twenty-eight-year old Devi Podiam, a resident of Potali village in Dantewada district of Chhattisgarh, is used to allocating two full days at the beginning of each month just to walk over 10 km to a ration shop in Tirkapara in order to get monthly supplies of Rice and other necessities for her family....
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