After farmers decried long delays in procurement of food grains harvested by them in the recently concluded Yasangi (Rabi), the Civil Supplies department launched an action plan titled ‘MISSION K-100’ on Wednesday, to resolve logistical and financial bottlenecks before the kharif harvest arrives at grain procurement centres. It is designed to accelerate stock clearance and improve coordination among all stakeholders.
Mission I – Custom Milled Rice delivery & evacuation
Mission II – Stock liquidity and inventory monetisation
Mission III – Financial strengthening and resource mobilisation
Mission IIV – Mechanisation of procurement centres and mills
Mission V – Transportation management
Marking the launch, the department’s Commissioner M. Stephen Raveendra chaired a high-level strategic coordination meeting with Food Corporation of India (FCI) General Manager G.N. Raju in Hyderabad. The Commissioner requested the FCI to urgently allocate adequate storage space to facilitate the swift evacuation of pending grain stocks. Additionally, the State officials pressed the Central agency for the release of long-pending financial dues to strengthen the department’s working capital, as per a press note.
The action plan includes five sub-missions aimed at addressing various bottlenecks involved in taking paddy from procurement centres to rice mills, space in godowns and iron out financial issues.
After harvest, farmers bring food grains to Paddy Procurement Centres (PPC). Hamalis (workers) pack the food grains in gunny bags, weigh and load them onto heavy vehicles. The bags are taken to rice mills where the harvest is sold. There were gaps in this supply chain in yasangi.
The five sub-missions
The first of the five pillars of MISSION K-100 focuses on rapidly milling and moving pending Custom Milled Rice (CMR) to the FCI to clear storage space ahead of the new harvest.
The second mission is to phase wise auction of paddy by centres to generate cash flow and reduce warehouse rental costs.
The third sub-mission aims at recovery of pending subsidies, incidental costs, and get withheld funds from the Central government.
The fourth is to target modernisation of high-volume procurement centres by deploying automated equipment to cut down on dependency on manual labour.
The final sub-mission is to overhaul logistics by expanding transport sectors, increasing the required vehicle fleet, and implement a real-time Vehicle Location Tracking System (VLTS) to eliminate transit bottlenecks between procurement centres and participating rice mills.
Published – July 01, 2026 08:33 pm IST