Centre’s facts in Lok Sabha display parboiled rice procurement changed into maximum from Telangana in 2020-21
Nearly one-fourth of the paddy procurement for the Central pool has taken vicinity from Punjab. Following this, Punjab farmers got around ₹36,706.88 crore. The procurement become completed on the MSP (minimal assist charge) value of ₹1,960 consistent with quintal.

Giving details of State-clever foodgrains procurement at MSP for the Central pool during the kharif advertising season (KMS) of 2021-22, Sadhvi Niranjan Jyoti, Union Minister of State for Consumer Affairs, Food and Public Distribution, produced authorities’s facts showing that 739.11 lakh tonnes (lt) of paddy worth ₹1.Forty four lakh crore (on the MSP cost of ₹1,960 in keeping with quintal) were procured at some point of 2021-22.

Of this, the share of Punjab was at 187.28 lt (this is 25.33 in keeping with cent of the whole procurement) worth ₹36,706.88 crore. Chhattisgarh became some other primary contributor to the Central pool at ninety two.01 lt worth ₹18,033.Ninety six crore. This become followed by way of Telangana at 70.22 lt (₹thirteen,763.12 crore), Uttar Pradesh at sixty five.Fifty three lt (₹12,843.88 crore), and Odisha at 56.98 lt (₹11,168.08 crore).

The minister stated Bihar, Chhattisgarh, Gujarat, Jammu and Kashmir, Madhya Pradesh, Uttarakhand, Tripura and Rajasthan recorded maximum-ever paddy procurement for the duration of KMS 2021-22, she said in a written respond within the Lok Sabha.

Parboiled rice
In a separate respond, Sadhvi Niranjan Jyoti stated States had been knowledgeable that the FCI (Food Corporation of India) will now not be in a role to just accept parboiled rice for the duration of KMS 2021-22 due to the burgeoning stock stage of parboiled rice in the Central pool.

FCI procured 47.Forty nine lt of parboiled rice from Telangana all through KMS 2020-21 against 44.Seventy one in KMS 2019-20. FCI procured 17.74 lt (16.05 lt) from Odisha, and 15.95 lt (26.38 lt) from Chhattisgarh all through the duration.

She stated after assembly the necessities of States for the focused public distribution gadget and other welfare schemes, handiest the excess/surplus shares procured via the State governments and their organizations are passed over to FCI within the Central pool inside the shape of white (uncooked) rice or parboiled rice to satisfy the overall consumption requirement of the us of a in phrases of a memorandum of know-how signed among the Centre and decentralized procurement States.

Steel demand
Meanwhile, the Steel Ministry has stated the rapid urbanization is probably to increase the demand of steel and metals in the united states.

In a reply within the Lok Sabha on Wednesday, Ram Chandra Prasad Singh, Union Steel Minister, said the production of completed metallic became 96.20 million tonnes (mt) in 2020-21 compared with the manufacturing of 102.62 mt in 2019-20. Consumption of metal changed into at 94.89 mt in 2020-21 against one hundred.17 mt in 2019-20.

Production of zinc and lead extended to 7.15 lt and 2.14 lt in 2020-21, from 6.88 lt and 1.81 lt in 2019-20, respectively. Production of aluminium stood at 36.16 lt (36.56 lt), and refined copper at 3.64 lt (four.08 lt) all through the duration.