Bhubaneswar: Chairman of the Minister of Naveen Patnaik on Sunday looking for the intervention Prime Minister Narendra Modi for the central decision not to lift parebel rice from Odisha in the marketing season 2021-22 Kharif (KMS) to come.
The center on August 31 has signaled the state government that Indian food companies (FCI) will not receive a parboiled rice surplus from Odisha at 2021-22 km.
The minister’s chairman said Odisha is expected to get 52 lakh MT rice in the next KMS while the need for rice the country itself under all the schemes is around 24 lakh MT which shows that the state will have a 28 lakh mt rice surplus which is only MT that will be raw rice.
“It made the country with a 24 lakh balance of MT rice parebel for evacuation by FCI.
The latest decision of the Ministry of Food and Public Distribution (DFPD) has placed a question mark on the removal of the Rice Surplus from the country,” said Naveen.
In the availability of a large number of parboiled rice, Naveen said Odisha was mainly a country that consumed rice parboil and historically, therefore, the Odisha rice mill industry was very producing parili rice.
“Therefore the state is not in a position to deal with situations that arise because of a paradigm shift in a surplus of rice delivery profiles imposed on the country by DFPD,” said the minister’s chairman.
Adding that non-lifting from the large number of parboiled rice from the country because the restrictions imposed by the DFPD have the potential to influence the operation of the state rice procurement, Naveen said the central decision would affect around 10 lakh farmers and put them serious problems, especially during the Covid-19 pandemic situation.
The main minister also demanded that a reasonable time must be given to the state to harmonize himself with DFPD requirements.
The government and the country’s center has also locked the horns on the problem of non-lifting rice parebel from the country in the last 2020-21 kms because BJD parliamentarians have fulfilled the food and public distribution of the Minster Piyush Goyus to raise rice.
In the last KMS, the country has bought 77.33 lakh MT Padi (equivalent to 52.35 MT of rice) to the state government and the minimum support price of RS 14,444 Crore was transferred to farmer bank accounts.
This not only benefits farmers but also strengthens the country’s rural economy, especially during the ongoing pandemics.
The state government has made a special effort to expand procurement operations to remote areas of the country, said the minister’s chairman.