Maize crisis: Govt to call meeting of distilleries and ethanol manufacturers

In the airy of the maize situation successful Karnataka, the State authorities has convened a gathering of distilleries and ethanol manufacturers connected Friday to sermon the contented adjacent arsenic it is considering acquisition of 1 lakh tonnes for Karnataka Milk Federation (KMF).

Maize, is 1 of the earthy materials successful the manufacture of ethanol.

“Ideally, determination should not person been a problem. The State’s ethanol manufacturing capabilities and allocation has been reduced by the Centre. Unfortunately, it has been reduced to 20%. The Centre is ignoring the problems of the farmers,” Law and Parliamentary Affairs Minister H.K. Patil told presspersons astatine the post-Cabinet briefing.

He said that the Cabinet took superior enactment of the developments successful maize farming.

Stating that maize farmers had been affected connected aggregate fronts, Mr. Patil said that portion ethanol allocation had travel down, the maize procurement had fallen by 10 %. “Earlier, maize procurement was astatine 40%, which has been brought down to 30%. In fact, procurement complaint should beryllium raised to 50%,” helium said.

Other decisions

Among different decisions, the Cabinet cleared allotment of 5 acres to Murugodu Bangle Producers Foundation, a peculiar intent conveyance that volition make communal installation centre. A sum of ₹1.49 crore, which is 15% of ₹9.95 crore, has been approved arsenic the State’s share.

The Cabinet besides approved ₹143.6 crore towards cognition and absorption by a backstage agency, which volition beryllium identified, of State Data Centre, Near Disaster Recovery Centre, and Disaster Recovery Centre, for a play of 5 years.

Mr. Patil said that support was fixed for ₹74.10 crore to physique 114 Ayushman Health Centres, ₹200 crore towards operation of cheque dams and water improvement successful Kalyana Karnataka region, ₹200 crore for a bridge-cum-barrage crossed Sharavati stream to forestall brackish h2o from entering the stream astatine Mulkod successful Uttara Kannada district.