FCI bid to reduce moisture limit in wheat grain unfair: Kumari Selja

Chandigarh, January 12

Haryana Pradesh Congress Committee chief Kumari Selja has opposed the draft proposed by the Food Corporation of India (FCI) under which 12% moisture content limit has been recommended in wheat grain against the present 14%.

Similarly, the limit of dry and broken wheat has been reduced from 6 to 4%.

Selja said in the case of paddy, the moisture content had been reduced from 17 to16% and the lower limit for damaged and discoloured paddy had been reduced from 5 to 3%. In the case of rice, the broken percentage had been reduced from 25 to 20% and the moisture content from 15 to 14%. “This proposal is completely against the farmers of the country and is part of a deeper conspiracy to abolish the MSP,” said Selja. —