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Additional rice allocation - Tamilnadu
February 1 , 2025
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- The Tamil Nadu Civil Supplies Corporation has sought from the Food Corporation of India (FCI) allocation of nine lakh tonnes of rice for meeting the shortfall in its requirements.
- The reserve price of rice had been fixed at ₹22.5 per kg (pan-India) for sale to State governments.
- Two years ago, the Centre hiked the price for the States to ₹34 per kg from ₹23 a kg and in June 2023.
- It had even suspended the sale of rice and wheat to the States.
- As against the monthly allocation of 2.97 lakh tonnes for Tamil Nadu, the average monthly offtake of rice is around 3.63 lakh tonnes.
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