Central Government Approves Record Foodgrain Procurement Scheme for 2025-26

The Indian government has greenlit an expansive procurement plan for foodgrain during the 2025-26 marketing season, aiming to insure food security, offer fair price support to growers, and stabilise the request. The Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs, under the leadership of Prime Minister Narendra Modi, has sanctioned the procurement of a record volume of foodgrains — primarily rice and wheat — under the Price Support Scheme.

The scheme is designed to cover growers against price oscillations and guarantee procurement at the Minimum Support Price (MSP). For 2025-26, the blessing covers substantial purchase targets for both the Kharif and Rabi marketing seasons. The Food Corporation of India (FCI), in collaboration with state agencies, will take over the procurement process across major producing countries. Digital inventions, similar as e-procurement platforms and automated shadowing, will optimise effectiveness, translucency, and responsibility at every stage.

This policy continues India's commitment to icing that fat product does n't lead to torture deals by growers. By copping foodgrains at the MSP, the government ensures income security for tillers and strengthens public food reserves. The MSP has been fixed grounded on recommendations from the Commission for Agrarian Costs and Prices (CACP), with input from myriad stakeholders and a focus on covering the cost of civilization plus reasonable profit perimeters.

The procurement drive comes amid enterprises over transnational commodity request volatility and force chain dislocations. The government’s strategy is intended to cushion the domestic request from price shocks and maintain public food stocks for public distribution, disaster relief, and weal schemes. The scheme benefits millions of small and borderline growers, especially in countries like Punjab, Haryana, Madhya Pradesh, Uttar Pradesh, and Andhra Pradesh where large-scale procurement operations are anticipated.

Growers will register with procurement agencies using Aadhaar-grounded identification and banking links to admit prompt, direct digital payments, thereby perfecting effectiveness and cutting down on interposers. Rigorous monitoring will check malpractices and insure compliance with quality morals. Grain bought under this scheme will replenish the country’s central pool, supporting important weal enterprise like the Public Distribution System (PDS).

Government officers stress that similar procurement programmes are vital for public food security and are part of a broader policy to support pastoral inflows, modernise husbandry, and insure that the benefits of growth reach all sections of society. The success of the 2025-26 procurement plan is anticipated to have significant ramifications for request stability, planter weal, and the food force system as a whole.

The Prime Minister has reaffirmed the government’s resoluteness to keep growers’ interests at the core of agrarian policy and to continue interventions that strengthen the pastoral frugality, safeguard livelihoods, and promote sustainable product. The record procurement blessing forms a foundation of India’s ongoing sweats to uphold food security and socio-profitable addition.