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This is an archive article published on May 6, 2010
Concession for UP wheat farmers
With wheat procurement in Uttar Pradesh down by about 40 per cent from last year,the government has decided to relax quality norms to facilitate higher purchase of the crop from the state....
With wheat procurement in Uttar Pradesh down by about 40 per cent from last year,the government has decided to relax quality norms to facilitate higher purchase of the crop from the state.
As a one-time measure for farmers of Uttar Pradesh,the Central Government has allowed procurement of a higher proportion of shrivelled wheat by government agencies. The wheat crop in the state had suffered shrivelling of grains because of heat wave conditions just before harvest.
Sources in the Food Ministry said the government has allowed procurement of up to 15 per cent shrivelled wheat,up from the existing norm of 7 per cent. The Centre is learnt to have also decided that the cut value reduction in prices for the shrivelled content would be only half the normal value.
The decision comes in the wake of decline in wheat procurement in the state by 39 per cent to 8.54 lakh tonnes,from 13.99 lakh tonnes in the corresponding period last year.
The total wheat procurement in the country is 20.44 million tonnes,marginally down by about 1 per cent compared to the same period last year.
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