Malaysia to procure 5,00,000 metric tonnes of white rice from India
Malaysia is set to submit a request to India to procure an additional 5,00,000 metric tonnes of white rice, the country’s agriculture minister said.
Malaysia is set to submit a request to India to procure an additional 5,00,000 metric tonnes of white rice, the country’s agriculture minister said.
The consumer affairs, food and public distribution ministry has decided to sell Bharat Atta and Bharat Rice at subsidized rates through mobile vans at different railway stations, across the country ahead of the general elections.
The Tamil Nadu Civil Supplies department has intensified checking at state's border with Kerala to prevent the smuggling of ration rice.
A total of 2.01 LMT wheat from 481 depots and 4.87 LMT rice from 264 depots was offered from across the country, an official release said on Thursday.
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Rice fortification, a process of adding micronutrients like Iron, Folic Acid and Vitamin B12, is an effective, preventive and cost-efficient complementary strategy to address the challenge of anaemia.
Stalin said with the permission of the BJP-led central government, the state will soon send 40,000 ton of rice, 500 ton of milk powder and life saving drugs to Sri Lanka caught in a severe economic crisis.
According to the Indian embassy in Sri Lanka, the rice reached Colombo on board the ship Chen Glory. New year in Sri Lanka is generally celebrated on April 13 or April 14 and traditionally begins at the sighting of the new moon.
The entire cost of rice fortification (around Rs 2,700 crore per annum) would be borne by the Government of India as part of the food subsidy till its full implementation upto June, 2024.
As many as 300,000 metric tons of rice are expected to be imported from India, and a further 100,000 tonnes from Myanmar in order to bring down the rice prices artificially inflated by several large rice millers, Gilma Dahanayake, additional secretary of the ministry of trade, was quoted as saying by the state-owned Daily News newspaper on Tuesday.
