Centre mandates rice, paddy stock disclosure, allows five southern states to impose limits
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- ✓The government mandated that traders and retailers disclose rice and paddy stocks every Friday on the Food Stock Portal.
- ✓An order dated November 6 also allowed five southern states to impose stock limits until January 31, 2027.
- ✓These measures aim to check hoarding and keep rising rice prices under control.
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The government has also made it mandatory for traders, wholesalers, retailers, big chain retailers and processors/millers across the country to disclose their rice and paddy stocks every Friday on the Food Stock Portal
The Centre has allowed five southern states to impose stock limits on rice and paddy, wherever necessary, until January 31, 2027, as part of measures to check hoarding and keep prices under control.
Under an order dated November 6, all traders and wholesalers, retailers, large retail chains and processors and millers in all states and Union Territories must declare stocks under six categories -- Basmati rice, non-Basmati premium rice, non-Basmati rice, parboiled rice, broken rice and paddy.
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