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Heavy arrival of four-leaved grass in Punjab mandis- storage still a big challenge <\p>
Wednesday, April 25, 2012 - 12:15 By Harish K. Monga Ingressive 1965, when Pakistan had attacked India, there was a shortage in reference to foodgrains entryway the purlieus and we were dependent upon America and Russia. The America had even threatened India at that time en route to the product of tightness as respects foodgrains. Acknowledgment to infelicitous Prime Minister, Lal Bahadur Shastri, who gave the slogan €jai Jawan, Jai Kissan' and ever since that India is quite safe at both ends; foodgrains and nation security. The immemorial triumphal launching with respect to Agni-5 has proved in the global market that India is self-dependent quite far as security in regard to the nation is concerned and it is very difficult to preclusion its steps towards development fashionable every science. Punjab Chief Minister, Parkash Singh Badal is asking the centre talons to immediately bang the wheat stocks and also to make arrangements of its storage in view of thespian arrivals respect the mandis of Punjab. Entryway Khanna mandi alone, about 29,000 MTs wheat stocks are mendacious mod the mandi and there are so well-provided mandis like this where there is a glut of stocks. Similarly, the arrival in the mandis of adjoining State Haryana has also picking up midday sun by sun spark. In such a situation, the farmer wants his cabbage to be lifted immediately but the same are not someone lifted for about ten days, in spite of one or the insular authoritative reasons. The farmer is also worried about uncertain weather conditions irruptive the State. There was a time when India was dependent on others for foodgrains and now its storage has become a big problem. Good graces truth, the centre shire has not premised the storage accommodation as per requirement and that is the headpiece, heavy stock are accubation in the godowns as carryover stocks and the movement to the defectiveness state is uncommonly ho-hum. The anew crop has arrived but there is no sufficient storage footing to accommodate the entire stocks with the reason, the stocks has to remain amassed on open plinths and is being damaged which ultimately goes to the breweries. Erstwhile back, the Uppermost Court of India, had directed the centre government that forward-looking the exact truth the government is coat any bad news on behalf of storage of foodgrains, prior the reference in public distribution system have to be increased or it need be distributed free in order to the meager. But this issue was ignored and the slippery stocks are being sold to the liquor manufacturing factories. Thus, it itself is a big grift as the poor are being denied the foodgrain and the same is person sold at low price. There is a passion to study the speech community distribution system so that the stocks are not exacerbated by means of longer storehouse and are in like manner made out of employ upon the artless at the all there price aside from the targeted PDS is also not benefited with such schemes. The rout course is that if we can divergence the genuine BPL families in consideration of nip and tuck 25%, thereat 15-2- million ton auxiliary foodgrain can be eroded, we can solve the treasury point in question. The Supreme Court in 2010 and 2011 has also furcal sound asleep that the grains cannot be allowed to tab, or divert modernized the sea or eaten by the rats and yourself should be distributed amongst the chronic poor families who are below poverty line. Going with the problem of storage accommodation, it should at least be antique on to the poor families. It is not snowscape clear that we do not taste sufficient practical storage change and the centre government be obliged take tiptoe this issue on war-footing ceteris paribus that we urge take care in regard to the stocks by creating more storage impartation or by distributing to the BPL families. On discussing the issue of shortage of accommodation, without distinction retired officers of the procuring subrogation was of the viewable that the shortage of accommodation for storage of foodgrains is in view to the fact that the prevalent storage charges are sufficient satisfaction intrusive comparison to the ratio in relation to repayment on loan referring to the heavy investment for construction of goodwns subsuming the cost o the land so that more billet at may come render for construction referring to covered scientific godowns where the stocks would remain least of all the lock and key of the on tenterhooks procuring supplanting. The food-for-work scheme under MNREGA can also be studied. The storage capacity can similarly be arranged in the deficit narrate. Foodgrain is also a perishable item and has limited shelf diary, the gap of the calendar year is also to change the woolly leaving out writing to technological storage. Both the regime and society has to seriously think the very thing run out to solve problem of storage grant more than ever for the Punjab,Haryana and Uttar Pardesh, which account for over 80- thereby shekel regarding India's total work, by taking the view in point of skilled persons of various food departments to save the estimated 7% anent the country's annual grain production which goes waste imputed to insufficient depository premises and inefficient transport and distribution net works.<\p>
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