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State govt in a bind as FCI stops lifting rice quota
The New Indian Express Bhubaneswar
|August 25, 2025
Central agency has procured just 15.18 lakh tonne rice against 26 lakh tonne
SITTING over a surplus stockpile of 23 lakh tonne custom-milled rice (CMR), and the Food Corporation of India (FCI) not lifting its quota from the millers, the state government is left in a spot of bother.
Faced with storage space constraints and low demand of Odisha's parboiled rice from major consuming states like Bihar, Jharkhand and West Bengal, FCI has stopped lifting CMR from July 30, the last date for offtake of its quota.
This story is from the August 25, 2025 edition of The New Indian Express Bhubaneswar.
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