Arrangements are being made to procure wheat at support price during Rabi marketing season 2013-14. State Warehousing and logistics Corporation has made arrangements to safely store one crore MT procured wheat. The State Government has appointed the corporation as the nodal agency for procurement.
In the Rabi marketing season 2012-13, corporation had made arrangements to store 62.65 lakh MT wheat and for 36.18 lakh MT wheat in 2011-12. Corporation has also started Joint Partnership Agreement Scheme to increase storage capacity. In this scheme, warehouse operators have been granted three and half months’ business guarantee. Silo, the new technique of storage is also being encouraged in the State. In coming next two years, godown and silos with capacity of 60 lakh MT will be built.
Under Food Corporation India’s 9-10 year Guarantee Scheme, godowns of 20 lakh MT capacity and 3.50 lakh MT capacity silos are under building process. Under State’s logistics policy, capital subsidy & interest subsidy are provisioned on building the storage of 15 lakh MT capacity. Under this policy, online applications are invited in private sector. This has yielded encouraging results.
Madhya Pradesh State Warehousing and logistics Corporation has been appointed as Implementation Agency by Horticulture Mission for establishment of Centre for Perishable Cargo in the State for Perishable Cargo at Indore international airport.
Process of land allotment is being undertaken by Airport Authority of India, New Delhi for Perishable Cargo at Indore Airport. Computers have been provided by Central Government to Warehousing Corporation’s 172 branch offices and 8 nodal offices. Software of integrated information system of food grains management has been developed. All the data entries are being done at the branches of corporation through this software.