{"id":60354,"date":"2019-05-01T11:09:56","date_gmt":"2019-05-01T11:09:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/?p=60354"},"modified":"2019-05-01T11:09:57","modified_gmt":"2019-05-01T11:09:57","slug":"cm-reviews-wheat-procurement-operations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/cm-reviews-wheat-procurement-operations\/","title":{"rendered":"CM REVIEWS WHEAT PROCUREMENT OPERATIONS"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>REITERATES THAT STATE GOVERNMENT IS COMMITTED TO PROCURE AND LIFT EVERY SINGLE GRAIN<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Chandigarh<br>Punjab\n Chief Minister Captain Amarinder Singh on Tuesday reviewed the wheat \nprocurement operations and directed the Food &amp; Civil Supplies \nDepartment to facilitate the farmers and ensure that every single grain \nis procured within 24 hours of arrival in the mandis so that no farmer \nfaces any discomfort. He also directed the department to expedite the \npace of lifting.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Divulging the details, a spokesperson of the \nFood and Civil Supplies Department said that more than 60% of the crop \nhad already arrived in the Mandis. The arrivals have peaked with more \nthan 10 Lakh MT arriving daily for the past 3-4 days and with the 3-5% \nanticipated increase in wheat production, the State was heading towards a\n record breaking purchase of more than 132 Lakh MT.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The \nspokesperson further informed that the department had already made \nelaborate arrangements for the procurement of wheat through the State \nProcuring Agencies. He pointed out that despite adverse weather \nconditions and untimely rains, the department had so far procured 79.66 \nLakh MT in the state till April, 29.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Department further \nhighlighted that the State-wide capacity to lift wheat was limited to \nabout 5.5 Lakh MT in a day whereas the daily arrivals have been more \nthan 10 Lakh MT for the past few days. Consequently, certain mandis may \nbe experiencing a glut like situation which is inevitable in every Mandi\n and occurs for about 6-7 days every year during the procurement season.\n The situation is expected to ease out after 3-4 days as procurement \nreaches its final stages. The delayed and sudden arrival of large \nquantities of wheat, due to bad weather conditions, has also contributed\n to the glut.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>However, it was also emphasised that despite \nadverse weather conditions and untimely rains and consequent damage to \nthe wheat grain, the State Agencies were procuring the wheat at a fast \npace. This was evident from the fact that despite an inflow of 10.8 Lakh\n MT on April 29 (Monday) alone, only 3.6 Lakh MT remained unsold by the \nend of the day, which shows that more than 70% of the wheat was \npurchased on the day of arrival itself.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The spokesperson further \nsaid that till Monday 7.12 LMT of wheat has been procured from \nJalandhar, Kapurthala, Shaheed Bhagat Singh Nagar and Hoshiarpur \ndistricts of Doaba region, 8.26 LMT from Amritsar, Gurdaspur, Tarn Taran\n and Pathankot districts of Majha region and 60.65 LMT of wheat has been\n procured from Ludhiana, Moga, Sri Muktsar Sahib, Bathinda, Mansa, \nFerozepur, Fazilka, Sangrur, Barnala, Rupnagar, Sahibzada Ajit Singh \nNagar, Faridkot, Patiala and Fatehgarh Sahib districts of Malwa region. \nLikewise, he said that district officials have been further directed to \nensure prompt lifting of wheat from mandis to facilitate the farmers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The\n spokesperson further said that a foolproof mechanism has been evolved \nto make timely payments to the farmers for their produce. He said that \npayment worth Rs.4300 crores has been so far released by the State \nGovernment for payment to the farmers. He said that in order to \nsafeguard interests of food growers of state due to inclement weather \nconditions in last week, the State Government had sought relaxation in \nspecification of wheat from Government of India (GoI) which has been \nrecently granted. \n\n<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>REITERATES THAT STATE GOVERNMENT IS COMMITTED TO PROCURE AND LIFT EVERY SINGLE GRAIN ChandigarhPunjab Chief Minister Captain Amarinder Singh on Tuesday reviewed the wheat procurement operations and directed the Food &amp; Civil Supplies Department to facilitate the farmers and ensure that every single grain is procured within 24 hours of arrival in the mandis so [&hellip;]<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":60355,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[410,314],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-60354","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business","category-punjab"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60354","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=60354"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60354\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":60356,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60354\/revisions\/60356"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/60355"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=60354"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=60354"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=60354"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}