The Rice Millers Association Punjab has urged the centre to immediately intervene in the state’s emergency rice stock crisis. Rice millers have warned the Food Corporation of India (FCI) that currently the state has grain storage capacity for only 22 lakh metric tonnes (LMT) of rice against the 105 LMT that will be milled this season. The rice miller’s association president Gian Chand Bhardwaj said that Punjab this year has received 156 LMT of paddy this year, all of which had been handed over to millers for processing. From this, 105 LMT of rice is to be supplied to the FCI.
He said rice millers had been asked to supply 20 LMT rice with 10 per cent broken content and 85 LMT with 25 per cent broken content by April 30, 2026. Any delay beyond this deadline, he warned, would increase the percentage of broken rice due to the rising temperature in summer. Several rice millers have warned the FCI ministry and urged them to move the rice stock out of Punjab.
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