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FCI, IICPT to tie up to ascertain paddy outturn ratio in eleven states
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Thursday, 30 January, 2014, 08 : 00 AM [IST]
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Our Bureau, New Delhi
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fiogf49gjkf0d The Food Corporation of India (FCI), a public sector unit (PSU), inked a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with the Indian Institute of Crop Processing Technology (IICPT), Thanjavur - an educational research and deveopment institution founded in 1967 - at the former’s headquarters in New Delhi to ascertain the outturn ratio (OTR) of paddy.
“The study would be conducted in eleven paddy-producing states of India,” said C Viswanath, FCI’s chairman and managing director. The states are Andhra Pradesh, Bihar, Chhattisgarh, Punjab, Haryana, Maharashtra, Orissa, Tamil Nadu, Uttar Pradesh, West Bengal and Kerala.
FCI initiated the study on behalf of the Centre, based on requests from various states for fresh trial milling and fixation of uniform OTR.
Viswanath added that the objectives of the study were to determine the OTR and ascertain the milling yield of rice from paddy and the quality of milled rice obtained in different agro-climatic zones in the states.
It aimed to attend to the long-pending demand of the rice milling industry as well as the state governmentss to refix the OTR, keeping in view the introduction of new varieties of paddy in country, as well as advancements in rice milling technologies.
While FCI was represented at the inking of the MoU by Seema Kakar, its executive director (quality control), and the institute was represented by K Singaravadivel, its principal scientist. Viswanath and IICPT’s director, K Alagusundaram, were also present.
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