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Cooperative Grain Storage Plan (PACS Godowns)
India is putting small grain godowns next to the fields and handing them to village cooperatives, so a harvest need not travel to a distant warehouse before it can be stored.
Last updated 26 October 20265 min read
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Adds the plan's approval chain, eased loan and guarantee terms, the FCI hiring map, e-NWR access, the 5 lakh-tonne target and a short dated log.
- Decentralised Grain Storage Plan
- PACS
- NCDC
- Ministry of Cooperation
- grain storage
- Agriculture Infrastructure Fund
- cooperative godown
- food security
- grain storage plan
- PACS godowns
- e-NWR
- WDRA
- PM Dhan-Dhaanya Krishi Yojana
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