date:May 27, 2016
d decided to maintain buffer stock of 3,250 tonnes in two cold storages of Bhubaneswar and Sambalpur. In 2015, the Government had been able to maintain a buffer stock of 465.3 tonnes due to storage constraint.
Contrary to the field report, about 20,000 tonnes of potato was harvested in Koraput district alone in March. In absence of procurement by Government agencies like local cooperative societies and Regulated Market Committees (RMCs), the farmers were forced to sell their crop at throwaway p