Paddy procurement

Nabarangpur: This was possibly the last thing that two senior BJD leaders, who were on an inauguration spree in Odisha's Nabarangpur, could have expected. A farmers' protest greeted them as…

Bhubaneswar: The state government on Thursday suspended secretaries of 15 primary cooperative societies and dismissed a data entry operator in different districts for alleged irregularities…

Bhubaneswar: The Odisha government has requested the Centre for the early release of the pending subsidy to complete the paddy procurement process in the state. Odisha Food Supplies and…

Sambalpur/Malkangiri: Irregularities in paddy procurement and registration of ghost farmers in the procurement process have been reported in two districts of Malkangiri and Sambalpur on…

Bhubaneswar: State Food Supplies and Consumer Welfare minister Ranendra Pratap Swain on Saturday said that some groups with vested interest are agitating in the name of farmers on matters…

Bhubaneswar: The Odisha government will procure paddy from farmers with the revised minimum support price (MSP) during this Kharif season. Informing this to the media on Thursday, the…

Sambalpur: The Odisha government was on course to lift all paddy stocks from mandis in the state by March 31, Food Supplies and Consumer Welfare Minister Ranendra Pratap Swain said on…

Bhubaneswar: The state government has decided to install iris scanners at paddy procurement centres in Rasulpur block in Jajpur district to identify genuine farmers and weed out bogus ones.…

Bhubaneswar: Members cutting across party lines expressed grave concern in the State Assembly on Wednesday over the online token system for paddy procurement. Demanding scrapping of the…

Bhubaneswar: In the wake of state-wide protest by farmers’ bodies against the new online token system for procurement of paddy, the Odisha government on Monday said that the list of…