1. INTRODUCTION Before the year 1997‐98, the Food Corporation of India was the sole procurement agency of the Government. From 1998‐99, the procurement of Levy Rice was started in West Bengal. Since then, the State Government issues, with concurrence of the Government of India, a yearly Levy Control Order called the West Bengal Rice Mills (Control & Levy) order which remains valid from the month of October to September of each year. The year is demarcated as the Khariff Marketing Season of the KMS. The Minimum Support Price or the MSP per quintal of paddy in relation to the grade or the variety of the paddy is announced by the Government of India in each year in the month of August/September. Accordingly, the price of the Levy Rice is also fixed by the Government of India. The Rice Mills operating in this state are required to deliver a certain percentage (now it is minimum 50%) of their annual production of Rice in the Government account in the price fixed by the Government of India after fulfilling the Fair Average Quality norms. Different Agencies like NAFED, BENFED, CONFED, NCCF & the WBECSC Ltd. are also used to purchase paddy in MSP from the farmers directly or through the Primary Agricultural Co‐operative Societies (PACS) and deliver the resultant rice in the Government account in the form of Custom Milled Rice (CMR). 2. PADDY PRODUCTION Bardhaman is the only one district which is fortunate with both the Agriculture and Industry. On an average 58% population of this district is dependent on agriculture and the rest on Industry. Rice is the most important crop of this district. It grows in the state in three different seasons viz., Aus(Autumn Rice), Aman(Winter Rice) and Boro(Summer Rice). Mainly, the production of Aus and Aman paddy constitutes the major Khariff Crop and it covers 4,24,000 hectors of total cultivable area. This year, total production of Khariff paddy is expected to be 20,00,000 MT. It was 19,00,000 MT last year. The production rate of paddy is 4.7 MT per hector. Page 1 of 8 3. TARGET FOR KMS 2012‐13 This year, the Government of West Bengal has announced a target of 1,60,000 MT of Levy Rice against 2,05,000 MT of the last KMS. Target of this district in Levy and CMR account is given below. Table No. 1 : Table containing the tentative Targets of Levy & the CMR in this KMS 2012‐13 LEVY RICE CUSTOM MILLED RICE (CMR) CMR TOTAL DISTRICT TOTAL NAFED BENFED CONFED NCCF WBECSC LTD. STATE 60,000 10,000 10,000 2,000 30,000 60,000 1,12,000 FCI 1,00,000 13,000 5,000 0 70,000 80,000 1,68,000 TOTAL 1,60,000 23,000 15,000 2,000 1,00,000 1,40,000 2,80,000 1,72,000 2,68,000 4,40,000 4. YEAR WISE ANALYSIS ON PROCUREMENT IN BURDWAN The target for 1998‐99 for Burdwan district was fixed at 1.63 lakh MT out of the state target 4.66 lakh MT on the Rice Mills, Mini Rice Mills, Husking Mills and Rice Traders. The district achieved only 0.67 lakh MT. The Rice Mills delivered 40%, Traders 12.36% and the Husking Mills less than 1% of their target. The reasons for poor performances were‐ i) Lack of storage facility, ii) Lack of movement network and iii) Difference in procurement price and the market price. In last year, the procurement was started with a godown capacity of 70,000 MT capacity which was increased to 1,07,021 MT at the end of the season. But, throughout the year, there was a dearth of godown space. Inspite of the fact, this district achieved a record procurement of 2.08 lakh MT of levy rice and 1.27 lakh of CMR totaling 3.36 lakh MT out of the target of 4.37 lakh MT. Page 2 of 8 The year to year analysis is given below. Table No.2 : Table containing the target and achievement (in MT) of Procurement of Levy Rice of last three years KMS 2009‐
2010 2010‐ 2011 2011‐
2012 STATE ACCOUNT FCI ACCOUNT TARGET ACHIEVEMENT TARGET ACHIEVEMENT
1,50,000 1,08,587 1,00,000 79,712 1,40,000 1,03,670 1,05,000 15,110 1,00,000 72,750 2,05,000 1,36,103 TOTAL MSP OF TARGET ACHIEVEMENT PADDY 2,50,000 1,88,299 Rs. 950/‐ 1,45,000 1,18,780 Rs. 1080/‐ 3,05,000 2,08,853 Rs. 1080/‐ 5. PLAN OF PROCUREMENT FOR THIS KMS 2012‐13 Though the official date of commencement of procurement is 1st October’2012 for KMS 2012‐13, it was deferred to 1st November’2012 due to some constraints, mainly, i) the CMR offered by the agencies was due for some societies and ii) lack of storage space. The first meeting of the District Level Monitoring Committee(DLMC) was held on Tuesday, October 16th with the members of the DLMC. Major decisions were as follows:‐ 1. The CMR agencies must furnish their tagging list to the DLMC through the DCF&S within 31st October’2012 and that should be communicated to all concerned. 2. The agencies should finalize the plan of organizing at least 10 camps starting from the second week of November’2012. 3. Block level meetings with all Rice Mills, PACS should be completed within October’2012. Block may fix a cap of 30 bags of paddy per farmers in the beginning of the procurement and do the tagging of the area with the paddy purchase centres as suggested by the local MLAs, mutually agreed by consensus. The objective is ensuring sale of marketable Page 3 of 8 surplus of paddy by small farmers at MSP, mostly owing average three to four bighas of land and discouraging the Rice mills from purchasing paddy from the middlemen. This limit may vary in different blocks and will be applicable in case of CMR also. 4. Adequate space has to be created before the onset of procurement season by movement of rice in other districts as quickly as possible. 5. The godown wise vacancy position has to be uploaded to the district website for transparency. 6. The Rice mills has to furnish the daily paddy purchase reports to the DCF&S through SMS on regular basis which also may be uploaded in the district website. 7. Special task forces has to be formed in all blocks for Rice Mill inspections from November’2012 onwards. 8. Arrangements for opening of No Frill Accounts have to be completed. All payments of MSP has to be through the bank accounts by account payee cheques. No issues of cheque bounce, post dated cheques will be tolerated and legal action will be taken against the defaulters. For identification of the farmers, the KCC or the Bank Pass Books will be considered. 9. All CMR agencies should clear their dues to PACS/Societies immediately. 10. Our target for this KMS is 4 lakh MT against last year’s 3.36 lakh MT. Page 4 of 8 6. OTHER RELEVANT INFORMATION AND STATISTICS Table No.3: Table showing numbers of Rice Mills located in each blocks and Municipal areas of Burdwan SUB­DIV. ASANSOL BURDWAN SADAR NORTH BURDWAN SADAR SOUTH DURGAPUR KALNA BLOCKS Salanpur Barabani Raniganj Raniganj (M) Jamuria Jamuria (M) Asansol MC Kulti (M) Total Burdwan‐I Burdwan‐II Burdwan (M) Ausgram‐I Ausgram‐II Guskara (M) Bhatar Galsi‐II Total Memari‐I Memari‐II Memari (M) Jamalpur Raina‐I Raina‐II Khandaghosh Total Galsi‐I Andal Faridpur‐Durgapur Pandabeswar Kanksa Durgapur MC Total Purbasthali‐I Purbasthali‐II Kalna‐I Kalna‐II Kalna (M) Monteshwar Total NO(S) OF RICE MILLS 2 1 1 0 4 0 0 0 8 40 22 35 13 10 0 15 26 161 10 37 1 7 39 60 112 266 21 0 1 1 9 0 32 2 1 5 3 0 10 21 Page 5 of 8 FUNCTIONING RICE MILLS 2 1 0 0 4 0 0 0 7 32 18 31 13 6 0 6 23 129 7 31 1 6 25 50 80 200 18 0 1 1 8 0 28 2 1 5 3 0 8 19 NON­
FUNCTIONING RICE MILLS 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 1 8 4 4 0 4 0 9 3 32 3 6 0 1 14 10 32 66 3 0 0 0 1 0 4 0 0 0 0 0 2 2 KATWA Mongolkote Ketugram‐I Ketugram‐II Katwa‐I Katwa‐II Katwa (M) Dainhat (M) Total Grand Total 1 4 1 8 1 0 0 15 503 1 3 1 7 1 0 0 13 396 0 1 0 1 0 0 0 2 107 Table No.4: Table showing target and achievement of the Levy and CMR in KMS 2011‐12 AGENCY Rice Mill AGENCY BENFED CONFED WBECSC NAFED NCCF Total LEVY RICE FCI Procurement 136103.196 STATE Target Procurement 100000 72750.357 Target 205000 STATE Target Procurement 8000 1732.548 2000 500 58000 70987.867 10000 8865.861 27000 25008.855 105000 107095.131 CUSTOM MILLED RICE FCI Target Procurement 4000 728.736 0 0 10100 9202.86 0 0 13000 10335.703 27100 20267.299 Page 6 of 8 Target 305000 TOTAL Procurement 208853.553 Target 12000 2000 68100 10000 40000 132100 TOTAL Procurement 2461.284 500 80190.727 8865.861 35344.558 127362.43 Table No.5 : Table showing the godown wise stock position in Burdwan (as on 22/11/2012) STATE GOVERNMENT GODOWNS Block/MC Sl. Name of the Godowns Burdwan Municipality Guskara Municipality 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 Burdwan­I Galsi­II Ausgram­I Memari Municipality Memari­II Khandaghosh Raina­II Kalna Municipality Ketugram­II Ketugram­I Katwa Mu. Asansol MC Galsi­I Capacity (MT) Stock(MT) Burdwan South FSD CWC Sadarghat Guskara FSD Dharapara Hired BNI Somaipur Hired R.P. Agarwalla Hired CWC Hatshimul CWC Sarul Gopinathbati Hired Memari FSD Memari Hired (Girindra Ag) Satgechia Hired Kusumgram Hired Aditi Ligistic Hired Bankura More Hired Seherabazar FSD(Defunct) Kalna FSD Kalna Japat Hired Kalna RMC Umarpur Hired S.N. Agarwalla Hired Ramjibanpur FSD Kandra Hired (Amar Kundu) Kandra Hired (S. Dey) Nirol Hired Katwa RMC Asansol FSD Galsi FSD Paraj Hired Total Space(MT) 2000 4742 2000 2050 1200 1200 15000 6675 3300 1800 3500 1174 2400 6830 5000 0 1800 1050 4500 16000 4200 1100 3500 900 500 12300 700 800 800 2112 3872 2621 1270 612 741 13195 2728 3080 1909 4027 655 3066 6136 3723 0 713 1396 3365 13458 3271 1986 3540 974 546 10686 31 577 572 ‐112 870 ‐621 780 588 459 1805 3947 220 ‐109 ‐527 519 ‐666 694 1277 0 1087 ‐346 1135 2542 929 ‐886 ‐40 ‐74 ‐46 1614 669 223 228 107021 90862 16159 FOOD CORPORATION OF INDIA GODOWNS Burdwan­I 1 Galsi­II 2 Durgapur MC 3 ARDC Alamganj CWC Sarul Durgapur Total 23444 21675 25060 24302 13092 19373 ‐858 8583 5687 70179 56767 13412 Page 7 of 8 Table No.6 : Table showing name and address of the CMR agencies Sl. 1. Agency NAFED 2. BENFED 3. WBECSC 4. CONFED 5. NCCF Full Name & Address National Agricultural Co‐
operative Marketing Federation of India Ltd. 20‐B, Abdul Hamid Street, 2nd Floor, Kolkata – 69. The West Bengal State Co‐
operative Marketing Federation Ltd. 1582, Rajdanga Main Road, South End Conclave, 3rd floor, Kol – 107. The West Bengal Essential Commodities Supply Corporation Limited. 11A, Mirza Galib Street, Kol – 87. The West Bengal State Consumers’ Co‐operative Federation Ltd. P‐1, Hide Lane, Akbar Mansion, 3rd fl. Kolkata – 73. National Co‐operative Consumers’ Federation of India Ltd. 27, Mirza Galib Street, 4th Floor, Kol – 16. Tel. No. & Fax No. (033)2248 8594, 2248 1941, 3729. Fax : 2248 3729 Web & email www.nafed‐india.com
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