The government made the cash infusion before the financial year 2020-21 ended, letting FCI begin FY22 on a clean slate in terms of unsecured loans
The Delhi BJP on Friday accused Agriculture Minister Gopal Rai of making "false" statements on wheat procurement by the Food Corporation of India, and challenged him to prove the charges or resign
Farmers in Punjab and Haryana on Monday held protests outside Food Corporation of India (FCI) offices and raised various demands, including a legal guarantee for the minimum support price
FCI has been asked to install a vehicle tracking system in all its 20 regional offices to track the trucks moving subsidised foodgrains
The maintenance of these wagons will be done by Indian Railways on payment under an agreement to be executed with AALL
The Budget has allocated around Rs 4.22 trillion for food subsidy. Of this, FCI's share is around Rs 3.44 trillion
The Central Bureau of Investigation carried out searches at over 20 locations in Punjab and Haryana on the godowns of the FCI
In the past decade, FCI's expenses have risen as the guaranteed price for common rice has climbed by 73% and for wheat by 64%
Farmer groups in their protests alleged that the agro reforms were brought to 'favour Ambani and Adani'
The Modi government and leaders of protesting farmers' unions have held several rounds of talks but have not made any progress in breaking the deadlock over the the new farm laws.
NCML will develop these grain silos at seven locations in Punjab, Haryana and Uttar Pradesh under a 32-year concession agreement awarded by FCI
So far, a total of 1,373 trains got cancelled and 230 rakes are held up outside Punjab.
The government on Tuesday said state-run Food Corporation of India (FCI) has been asked to tie up with rice mills for increasing supply of fortified rice via ration shops and other welfare schemes
State-owned Food Corporation of India (FCI) on Wednesday raised Rs 8,000 crore through issuance of bonds on private placement basis using BSE BOND platform.
The other components are pooled cost of grains and distribution cost that includes freight, handling, and storage, etc
The official reason given by Centre is that procurement had to start early in the wake of early arrival of the kharif crop in the two states
According to the ministry, state procuring agencies including Food Corporation of India (FCI) are in a state of readiness for smoothly undertaking procurement operations
Even as FCI is raising Rs 75,000 cr for three months at 4.69%, companies are regularly tapping bond market for the same tenure at as low as 3.2%, way lower than RBI's repo rate of 4%
Rice is among the biggest agriculture exports from India along with buffalo meat and cotton
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