HAFED modernizes Taraori rice mill

By Haryananewswire

CHANDIGARH, APRIL 23

 Haryana State Cooperative Supply and Marketing Federation Ltd. (HAFED) has modernized the rice mill at Taraori at a cost of about Rs three crore   to meet the demand  of rice in national and international markets. Also, a flour mill costing Rs two crore has been set up in Taraori.

          While stating this today, a spokesman of HAFED said that the State Government has declared HAFED as a nodal agency for construction of godown of about 36.53 lakh metric tonnes capacity in the State under Private Entrepreneurs Godown Scheme (PEG-2008) of the Central Government. The construction work of godown of capacity of about 22.05 lakh metric tonnes would be completed by March 31 next.

          He said that godowns of a total capacity of 4.5 lakh metric tonnes   are being set up in the State. He said that 3.33 lakh metric tonnes capacity godowns costing Rs 73.26 crore have been set up in the State between March 2005 and March 2013. HAFED’s budget used to be  of merely Rs 64.36 crore  from the year 2004-05 to March 2013 which has now been increased to Rs 484.38 crore in the financial year 2013-14. HAFED has spent a total of Rs 866.85 crore from March 2005 and March 2013, he added.

          He said that a new alternative has been provided on experimental basis to the farmers at Rewari and Narnaul to sell their mustard seed through Electronic Commodity Spot Exchange through which they can get information about the prevailing market price across the country. It is a buyer-seller transparent system.

          He said that HAFED has initiated and promoted the use of information technology. For this, a framework of Information Technology Vision for next five years is being prepared. The oil mills of HAFED, rice mill Taraori, animal feed plant and sugar mill Asandh have received ISO 22000:2005 certification which is the latest as per the ISO standards of Food Safety Management System. He said that the process of obtaining ISO 9001:2008 certification for Quality Management System Certification has been initiated in all offices of HAFED.