28 June : Union Agriculture Minister Sharad Pawar has said that there is no drought like situation in the country and further reiterated that delayed monsoon would not hit agriculture production.
Agricultural Ministry continuously monitoring situation in the states facing delayed monsoon.Southwest monsoon has further advanced into some parts of Maharashtra, Andhra Pradesh and southern regions of Chhattisgarh and Orissa bringing rains and thundershowers in some parts of northwest India including Uttar Pradesh and Rajasthan.
The annual rainfall system is expected to cover some more parts of Bihar, Jharkhand, Madhya Pradesh, West Bengal and Sikkim in the next three to four days.The Indian Meteorological Department has forecast widespread rains along the west coast over the next two to three days.
Fairly widespread to scattered rainfall has occurred over west Madhya Pradesh, Chhattisgarh, south Orissa, Vidarbha and Telangana.The Centre has procured a record 306.81 lakh tonnes of rice so far in the 2008-09 marketing season ending September this year, according to the data by Food Corporation of India.
FCI, the nodal agency for food grain procurement and distribution and other state agencies had procured 260.09 lakh tonnes in the comparative period of 2007-08 marketing season.
The government has been able to breach the last year's record procurement of 284.93 lakh tonnes of record rice production and higher minimum support price offered to the farmers this year.
It also surpassed the procurement target of 280 lakh tonnes for the ongoing marketing season.
With more than three months left for the procurement season to end, final figure is expected to touch 320 lakh tonnes.
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By : News Team
Sunday, June 28, 2009
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