Centre to procure 600,000 tonnes of tur and masur dals directly from farmers

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Mint. The MAPP is the weighted average price of previous three trading days in a district, while the DBPP is the weighted average price of the day of procurement, three previous days and three subsequent trading days. The MAPP and the DBPP are the weighted average of the modal price (70% weightage) and maximum price (30% weightage). This comes against the backrop of falling government buffer stocks amid firm market prices caused by lower production of some pulses, including tur.

“As part of the plan, these two pulses will be procured by the National Agricultural Cooperative Marketing Federation of India Ltd. (NAFED) and National Cooperative Consumers' Federation of India Limited (NCCF) directly from pre-registered farmers," the official said. Tur procurement started in January and so far both the agencies have procured around 8,000 tonnes of tur.

Masur procurement is scheduled to start this month. In January, union cooperation minister Amit Shah launched a multilingual electronic portal https://esamridhi.in through which farmers can sell tur dal to two government procurement agencies—NAFED and NCCF. As decided then, the department of consumer affairs (DoCA) will procure 80% of buffer requirement for tur and masur through these two agencies directly from farmers at the minimum support price (MSP) or at the prevailing market price, if prices are above the MSP.

The price of tur dal has been significantly high in the past year due to weather disturbances causing a fall in last season’s production. The country may have produced 3.3 million tonnes (mt) of the pulses against a domestic consumption of 4.4-4.5 mt. Production of tur in the 2023-24 (July-June) crop year, too, is expected to fall due to a patchy monsoon, with the