In anticipation of a bumper harvest this coming season, the Union Ministry of Consumer Affairs, Food & Public Distribution has set ambitious procurement targets for the Kharif Marketing Season (KMS) 2024-25. The ministry has announced a target of 485 lakh tonnes of paddy, marking a significant increase from the 463 LMT procured during the 2023-24 season.
While continuing its push to promote coarse grains, or ‘Mota Anaj’, the government has tripled its coarse grain procurement target to 19 LMT for the upcoming season, a sharp rise from the 6.60 lakh tonnes procured in 2022-23.
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