Government of India\u2019s recent draft proposal proposes to change the moisture content limit for wheat and paddy. This has made farmers worried <\/span>ahead of the rabi procurement season that begins April 2022.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n Moisture content (MC) is the weight of water contained in paddy or wheat expressed in percent.<\/span><\/p>\n The moisture content has been a sensitive issue for farmers. After harvesting, wheat absorbs moisture while rice loses it. On an average, wheat contains 15 to 22%\u00a0 moisture on harvest. Farmers have to dry their produce after harvesting and even at mandis before procurement.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n However, untimely rain ahead of procurement season and lack of sheltered storage space at the mandis makes it difficult for farmers to keep their stocks dry.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n Currently, farmers have to take a price cut on Minimum Support Price (MSP) when selling wheat stocks above the 12% moisture limit. Stocks with above 14% moisture are rejected.<\/span><\/p>\n However, according to the new rules, the ideal moisture content in wheat may be reduced to 12% from 14%<\/strong>. This means that wheat stocks with moisture content above 12% will not be procured even with a price cut.<\/span><\/p>\n In the case of paddy, permissible moisture content has been reduced from 17% to 16%.<\/span><\/p>\n Other provisions being discussed are reducing foreign matter in wheat crop<\/strong> to 0.50% from 0.75% and in paddy to 1% from 2%.<\/span><\/p>\n Farmers are also seeing this move as the government trying to gradually withdraw itself from the procurement operations and MSP regime.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n Source: <\/b>This post is based on the article<\/span> \u2018Centre may reduce the moisture content limit for wheat, paddy. Why this will hurt farmers\u2019<\/b> published in <\/span>PIB <\/b>on<\/span> 21st January 2022.<\/b><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" What is the news? Government of India\u2019s recent draft proposal proposes to change the moisture content limit for wheat and paddy. This has made farmers worried ahead of the rabi procurement season that begins April 2022.\u00a0 What is Moisture Content? Moisture content (MC) is the weight of water contained in paddy or wheat expressed in… Continue reading Centre may reduce the moisture content limit for wheat, paddy. Why this will hurt farmers<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10317,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1566,9],"tags":[3590],"class_list":["post-163521","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-factly-articles","category-public","tag-pib","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/163521","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10317"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=163521"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/163521\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=163521"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=163521"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=163521"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}What is Moisture Content?<\/b><\/h5>\n
What is the new proposed moisture content limit for wheat and paddy?<\/b><\/h5>\n
How are farmers seeing these proposed rules?<\/b><\/h5>\n