by Haryananewswire (Balbir)
CHANDIGARH, SEPT 20
Haryana State Co-op Supply and
Marketing Federation Ltd (Hafed) will set up a flour mill at a cost of Rs.two
crore at Taroari in district Karnal and it will increase the warehousing
capacity upto 9.51 lakh metric tonnes (LMT) by March 2013.
While
stating this here today, Cooperation Minister Mr. Satpal Sangwan said that
Hafed, which was the nodal agency, appointed by the state government for
building food grain storage space of 39.17 lakh metric tonnes under the Private
Entrepreneur Guarantee Scheme, had already constructed storage capacity of
five LMT in Haryana. He said that Hafed had also constructed multipurpose
godown having warehouse capacity of 30,000 tonnes at a cost of Rs.20 crore at
Gurgaon.
The Minister
said that Hafed had also introduced contract farming so as to ensure
remunerative price of desi wheat, barley and basmati rice growers. Under this
scheme, remunerative price were given to farmers engaged in cultivation of
these crops. Hafed had also started new purchase system of mustard in Rabi 2011
with the assistance of National Spot Exchange Limited (NSEL) as per which
farmers could directly come to sell their mustard crop at Hafed oil mill,
Rewari and Narnaul where high price were provided to farmers as compared to
rates in mandi by Hafed.
Mr.
Sangwan said that Hafed had procured 31.49 LMT wheat during Rabi 2012 which is
36 percent of total procurement made by government agencies in the state. The
agency had also procured 9.19 LMT and 10.22 LMT paddy on minimum support price
during Kharif 2010 and 2011 respectively.
The
Minister said that Rice mill, Tarorari had been made modernized at a cost of
about Rs.3.06 crore. Turmeric processing unit had also been established at
Radaur whereas Barley Malt Plant situated at Jatusana in Rewari district had
been made functional. This plant had been given on lease to UB Group Limited at
the rate of Rs.50 lakh per year. Capacity of this plant had been enhanced from
7000 to 10,000 tonnes malt per year. Apart from this, all warehouses and
district headquarters of Hafed had also been made computerized.
He said
that Hafed had set a sugar mill having capacity of 2500 metric tonnes crushing
per day at Assandh in Karnal. It would generate 2 MW electricity by a
co-generation plant.
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