Centre sets target for rice stocks in food security review meet

Centre sets target for rice stocks in food security review meet The meet was aimed at ensuring the Centre is able to buy sufficient rice stocks for the country’s public distribution system. Securing food supplies is critical this year as domestic cereal prices have risen and the world battles one of the gravest food crises in decades. The Centre on Tuesday reviewed food security and procurement of summer-sown rice with 24 state governments amid an anticipated lower output of the staple due to a patchy monsoon, a person with knowledge…

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