Punjab wheat to rot as granaries close to brim
Sandip Das: Chandigarh, Dec 18 2012, 00:28 IST
Grewal said, adding around 1.5 mt is transported out of the state every month. Between 2008-09 and 2012-13, Punjab’s contribution to the central government’s wheat purchases rose from 9.9 mt to 12.8 mt, an increase of 30%.
Meanwhile, a senior official in the food ministry said work on creating an additional 5 mt of capacity through private players’ investment has begun in Punjab and is expected to be completed by the end of the current financial year.
“More than 4.1 mt of storage capacity will be added by private investment in warehouses through the private entrepreneur godown scheme by the end of this fiscal, while close to 1 mt of capacity will be added by state government agency and Central Wearing Corporation,” AS Arunachalam, deputy general manager, Food Corporation of India (FCI), Punjab told FE recently.
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