Adverse weather delaying paddy transportation from procurement centres to rice mills; open procurement centres struggling to protect paddy stocks, leading to heavy spoilage
Despite the government's market intervention initiative aimed at parallel purchases to prevent distress sales, the impact has been minimal. Private buyers, particularly millers, remain largely absent from the market
Despite advance plans to procure as much rain soaked paddy as possible to meet the demand from the parboiled rice mills, no significant progress could be made in this direction.
