Thursday, September 20, 2012

Hafed to set up flour mill at Taroari (Karnal Dist)

by Haryananewswire (Balbir)
CHANDIGARH, SEPT 20
 Haryana State Co-op Supply and Marketing Federation Ltd (Hafed) will set up a flour mill at a cost of Rs.two crore at Taroari in district Karnal and it will increase the warehousing capacity upto 9.51 lakh metric tonnes (LMT) by March 2013.
          While stating this here today, Cooperation Minister Mr. Satpal Sangwan said that Hafed, which was the nodal agency, appointed by the state government for building food grain storage space of 39.17 lakh metric tonnes under the Private Entrepreneur Guarantee Scheme, had already constructed storage capacity of five LMT in Haryana. He said that Hafed had also constructed multipurpose godown having warehouse capacity of 30,000 tonnes at a cost of Rs.20 crore at Gurgaon.
          The Minister said that Hafed had also introduced contract farming so as to ensure remunerative price of desi wheat, barley and basmati rice growers. Under this scheme, remunerative price were given to farmers engaged in cultivation of these crops. Hafed had also started new purchase system of mustard in Rabi 2011 with the assistance of National Spot Exchange Limited (NSEL) as per which farmers could directly come to sell their mustard crop at Hafed oil mill, Rewari and Narnaul where high price were provided to farmers as compared to rates in mandi by Hafed.
          Mr. Sangwan said that Hafed had procured 31.49 LMT wheat during Rabi 2012 which is 36 percent of total procurement made by government agencies in the state. The agency had also procured 9.19 LMT and 10.22 LMT paddy on minimum support price during Kharif 2010 and 2011 respectively.
          The Minister said that Rice mill, Tarorari had been made modernized at a cost of about Rs.3.06 crore. Turmeric processing unit had also been established at Radaur whereas Barley Malt Plant situated at Jatusana in Rewari district had been made functional. This plant had been given on lease to UB Group Limited at the rate of Rs.50 lakh per year. Capacity of this plant had been enhanced from 7000 to 10,000 tonnes malt per year. Apart from this, all warehouses and district headquarters of Hafed had also been made computerized.
          He said that Hafed had set a sugar mill having capacity of 2500 metric tonnes crushing per day at Assandh in Karnal. It would generate 2 MW electricity by a co-generation plant.

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