About Us
Food Corporation of
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Effective price support operations for
safeguarding the interest of the farmers.
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Distribution of the
foodgrains through Public Distribution System and other Welfare Schemes.
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Maintaining
satisfactory level of operational and buffer stocks of foodgrains.
These operations are carried out under the overall
supervision and direction of Executive Director (West Zone).
Zonal Office (West) headquartered in Mumbai came into
existence on 1st March 1969 and coordinates the food management
operations in FCI West Zone comprising of the following four regions.
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Name of Region |
Location of Regional Office |
Area Covered |
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Mumbai |
State of
Maharashtra & Goa |
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Madhya
Pradesh |
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State of |
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Ahmedabad |
State of
Gujarat |
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Chhattisgarh |
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State of |
These
four Regions operate through 20 FCI District Offices that cover 129 Revenue
districts in West Zone. FCI, Zonal office (West) and the four Regional Offices
are ISO 9001:2000 certified.
The
storage capacity with the West Zone of FCI is about 43 LMT at 279 centers out
of which 69 are owned depots. There are 70 Private Godowns,
48 CWC Godowns and 83 SWC and 9 State Govt./Pvt. Godowns hired by FCI to augment own storage capacity. FCI
has own storage capacity in 73 Revenue Districts & CWC/SWC/State Govt/Pvt in rest of the other Revenue Districts. Efforts
are being made to add storage capacities based on the availability of infra
structure like broad gauge rail lines, handling points etc. depending on
additional requirements.
During
KMS 2009-10 in Chhattisgarh Region,
there is a target of procurement of 27 LMT of Paddy against which 42.37 LMT
Paddy was procured by State Govt. Further
as on 17.07.2010, 2.96 LMT of Levy rice received by FCI and 13.58 LMT CMR has
been received by State Agencies. 10 LMT Paddy proposed to be transferred by
State Govt. to FCI. Against this 10 LMT Paddy under transfer, FCI Chhattisgarh had accepted 2 LMT Paddy and from the accepted
qty, 0.71 LMT CMR is received.
In MP Region during KMS 2009-10, against
the target of 2.00 LMT Paddy, the Region has procured a total of 2.07 LMT of
Paddy by State Govt. Agencies. As on 15.07.2010,
about 1.05 LMT Rice has been received as CMR.
In Maharashtra
Region, during KMS 2009-10 a total of 2.32 LMT Paddy has been procured by
State Govt. against target of 2.00 LMT and 0.19 LMT Rice has been delivered as CMR.
In the year
2010-11, procurement of Wheat to Central Pool also has been done in the States
of Madhya Pradesh and Gujarat in West Zone. In RMS 2010-11, Madhya Pradesh
Region has procured 35.38 LMT Wheat and Gujarat has procured 0.01 LMT of Wheat.
There are 1.31 crore BPL cardholders and 3.44
lac APL cardholders in all states under West Zone. Under APL/BPL/AAY Schemes, there is a total
monthly requirement of 5.24 LMT of wheat & 2.53 LMT of Rice. As on 30.06.2010, about 38.89 LMT (26.15 LMT
Wheat, 12.74 LMT Rice) of foodgrains were available in the Zone, which is
sufficient to meet the requirements in all States.
To meet
requirements under various Schemes, substantial quantities of foodgrains are also required to be brought / moved from
Northern states especially wheat stocks. Rice Procured in Chhattisgarh has to be moved
out to other States. Substantial wheat procurement has taken place in RMS 2009-10
in two States viz. MP & Gujarat.
In the calendar year 2008 (12 months) a total
of 25.37 Lac MT of Wheat and 21.60 Lac
MT of Rice have been received from northern states to various states in West
Zone. During the year 2009 i.e. from Jan. to Dec’09, 44.53 lac MT Wheat and 14.46 lac
MT Rice has been received ex-North in the 4 States of West Zone. During 2008, about 18.40 lac MT Rice has been despatched ex-Chhattisgarh
and Maharashtra to other States. From
January to Dec 2009, Chhattisgarh and Maharashtra Regions have despatched about
15.44 Lac MT of Rice to other States. Because of the prudent planning and
efficient foodgrain management operations the four
states in the West Zone have never faced any shortage of foodgrains.