The consolidation of the sugar sector had been happening since the government allowed sugar mills and other agencies to export the sweetener in quota basis during the sugar season 2022-23.

These guidelines pertain to the production of ethanol by sugar mills and distilleries from B-Hy, C-Hy molasses, sugarcane juice, sugar and sugar syrup, foodgrains such as maize, broken rice, surplus rice, sourced from Food Corporation of India, etc, and the mechanism to identify the quantity of ethanol produced from these routes, according to the ministry of consumer affairs, food and public distribution.

New Delhi [India], September 23 (ANI): The recent changes in India's rice exports policy have been done keeping in mind the need to support the ethanol-blending programme that saves costly oil imports and to help the animal husbandry and poultry sectors by reducing the cost of animal feed that has a bearing on the price of milk, meat and eggs.

New Delhi [India], July 20 (ANI): The Food Corporation of India (FCI) has paused rice receipts from the 'Central pool' to Telangana under the Pradhan Mantri Garib Kalyan Anna Yojana (PM-GKAY) alleging that the state government had deprived the beneficiaries of the central public distribution scheme and failure to comply with set standard operating procedures by defaulting millers.

Bhubaneswar (Odisha) [India], January 30 (ANI): Odisha's BJP unit on Saturday released its manifesto for the forthcoming Panchayat elections in the state.

Chandigarh [India], January 16 (ANI): The Election Commission of India (ECI) on Sunday allowed the mediapersons authorised by the election body to exercise their franchise using the postal ballot facility, according to a release by Office of Chief Electoral Officer, Punjab.

New Delhi [India], December 23 (ANI): With the aim of reducing the country's import dependency for edible oil, which is about 60 per cent of the total production presently, and in line with the 'Atma Nirbhar' campaign, the Food Corporation of India (FCI) has recommended increasing the production of rice bran oil in India for domestic use.

New Delhi Nov 19 PTI Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Friday said that a committee will be formed to make Minimum Support Price MSP system more effective and transparent as well as suggest ways to promote zero budgeting based-agriculture The committee will have representatives of the central government state governments farmers agricultural scientists and agricultural economists Modi said as he also announced the decision to repeal the three farm laws Apart from repeal of the farm laws a legal guarantee on MSP has been one of the major demands of the protesting farmer unions In his address to the nation in the morning Modi said the government has decided to repeal the three farm laws which were the trigger for protests by farmers for the last one year Today only we have taken one more important decision related to agriculture sector We will set up a committee to promote zero budget farming or natural farming to change crop pattern in the scientific manner as per the changing needs of the country and to make MSP more effective and transparent he said The Prime Minister said that many initiatives have been taken for the farmers to get the right price for their produce in return for their hard work The country has strengthened its rural market infrastructure By linking more than 1000 mandis through e-NAM electronic-National Agriculture Market Modi said the government has given a platform for farmers to sell their produce anywhere Alongside it has spent crores of rupees on modernising the mandi infrastructure We not only increased the MSP but also created a record number of government procurement centres The procurement of the produce made by our government has broken the records of the last several decades he said Agriculture Minister Narendra Singh Tomar said the committee will submit the report which will be beneficial to the farming community He highlighted that the government had decided to fix the MSP at least 15 times higher than the cost of production Tomar said the Centre has started procurement of pulses oilseeds and coarse cereals apart from wheat and paddy at MSP rates Food Corporation of India the nodal agency for procurement and distribution of food grains has procured record wheat and paddy crops at MSPs during the last marketing years of kharif and rabi seasons Presently the government decides the MSP based on the recommendation of the expert body the Commission for Agricultural Costs Prices CACP The factors considered by the CACP for fixing MSPs include cost of production domestic and international prices demand-supply conditions inter-crop price parity terms of trade between agricultural and non-agricultural sectors MSP is announced for the kharif crops of paddy jowar bajara ragi maize arhar moong urad cotton groundnut sunflower seed soyabean and sesamum The rabi crops for which MSP is announced are wheat barley gram masur rapeseeds mustard safflower and toria Besides MSP is announced for copra de-husked coconut jute and Fair Remunerative Prices FRP for sugarcane PTI ASK KR LUX MJH RAM

Sircilla (Telangana) [India], November 13 (ANI): Working President of Telangana Rashtra Samithi (TRS) party and Minister KT Rama Rao said that the state government will force the Centre to buy paddy harvest grown in the state.

Chandigarh (Punjab) [India], September 24 (ANI): Punjab Chief Minister S Charanjit Singh Channi on Friday requested the Centre to help the state in getting the authorization of Cash Credit Limit (CCL) for the Kharif Marketing Season (KMS), 2021-22 from Reserve Bank of India (RBI) expeditiously.