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Huge stocks of the PAU-201 paddy variety, milled and unmilled, are still lying with rice millers, who allege that despite relaxation granted by the Central government, the milled rice fails to meet specifications on damage and discolouration."Millers are incurring extra cost and losses to sort and grade the rice as the actual damage after milling is still a high 6 to 9 per cent against 4.75 per cent allowed by the Union Food Ministry, while the broken rice percentage is 35 per cent to 40 per cent against the permissible 28 per cent," Mohan Singh Dhillon, Patron, Rice Mill Association, alleged.Blaming the Food Corporation of India (FCI) for rejecting milled stocks on one pretext or the other, he said the same stocks are being delivered by millers to neighbouring Haryana and Rajasthan at their own expense. "The Central agency also has little space to store the milled rice. Most of the paddy is lying uncovered. The pace at which procurement of the variety is in progress, paddy worth crores will rot and become unfit for human consumption owing to rains and scorching heat," the association said. That the FCI staff is not interested to stock the rice is evident from the figures of procurement before and after the announcement of relaxations, it added.Though the PAU promoted the variety owing to lesser use of groundwater, higher yield and early ripening, it has failed to convince the Central food ministry on the quality concerns. Though the reddish colour is owing to higher iron content and not damage, the PAU and various NGOs have not been able to get a favourable decision for the variety, Dhillon added.
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