Paddy| Government agencies led by Food Corporation of India.

Government agencies led by Food Corporation of India (FCI) may end up procuring lower quantity of rice in the current 2013-14 marketing year over last year on account of sluggish market arrivals of paddy. FCI and other State agencies have so far procured 27.29 million tonnes (mt) of rice, about 10 per cent lower than the last year’s procurement.