Kharif season 2021: As FCI stocks pile up, Centre prunes paddy purchases at MSP

It has also reduced the procurement target for the current year to 50 million tonne. By Prabhudatta MishraGiven that augmented procurement of paddy in the 2020-21 crop marketing year (October-September) in the wake of the farmers’ agitation raised the grain stocks with the Food Corporation of India (FCI) to an unmanageable level, the Centre is […]

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