Not many takers for govt drive to acquire tur dal at market charges

Small farmers proceed to promote to personal merchants whereas many larger farmers have opted to carry the crop, anticipating the costs to extend additional as tur/arhar costs proceed to stay agency and the brand new crop is anticipated to be in deficit, they mentioned.

That is the primary time {that a} central authorities company has entered into a contest with the non-public commerce to purchase tur for the federal government stocking. Nationwide Agricultural Co-operative Advertising and marketing Federation of India (Nafed) has been working procurement centres in Maharashtra and Karnataka. Nonetheless, in keeping with commerce sources, Nafed has managed to get solely about 2,000 metric tonnes of uncooked tur until final week.

The dynamic pricing method adopted by the federal government – which makes use of common worth of the earlier three days – its stringent high quality norms, and formalities concerned in promoting to authorities companies together with the benefit of cost in non-public offers are among the many key causes for farmers’ lack of curiosity, trade insiders mentioned.

“The dynamic worth of the federal government was decrease by Rs 3-4/kg than the market worth, which led to farmers selecting the non-public merchants over the federal government companies to promote tur,” mentioned Rupesh Rathi, a dal miller from Akola in Maharashtra.

Uncooked tur costs are presently ruling close to ₹100/kg in wholesale mandis, which is 40% above the minimal assist worth (MSP) of ₹70/kg. Tur dal, after processing at dal mills, is buying and selling round Rs 140-145/kg at mill gate and upwards of ₹180/kg in retail.PRICES RISINGThough the federal government is struggling to get tur/arhar, its presence out there has led to a rise of about 15% in its costs within the final two months, merchants and processors mentioned. “As the federal government is current out there to purchase arhar, there are not any possibilities of costs coming down anytime quickly,” mentioned Suresh Agarwal, president of All India Dal Millers Affiliation.

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