The Chhattisgarh State Civil Supplies Corporation has made elaborate arrangements for purchase of maize at minimum support price from a total of 10 districts with maximum output from the procurement centres of the Co-operative committees in the State.
The State Government has fixed the minimum support price for the Kharif Marketing Year 2013-14 at Rs 1,310 per quintal. The Civil Supplies Department officials informed that the maize output has started arriving in Jagdalpur (Bastar), Kondagaon, Narayanpur, North Bastar (Kanker), South Bastar ( Dantewada), Sukma, Gariyaband, Balrampur-Ramanujganj and Manpur and Mohla development blocks of Rajnandgaon district.
Maize is being purchased for the Kharif Marketing Year 2013-14 from the procurement centres of the Primary Co-operative Committees under their respective District Co-operative Central banks for which sufficient funds had been provided to the Co-operative Committees to carry out the purchase.
Every Co-operative Committee had been given 500 gunny bags each and the Corporation’s district level managers had issued instructions to buy more from the Ration shops for meeting the requirement for additional bags at procurement centres.