Bhubaneswar: Hitting back at Odisha Government for accusing Centre of not lifting the surplus parboiled rice from State, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) of Odisha unit on Tuesday said that State government seems to be more worried for the millers than the farmers.
“A farmer usually sells paddy, but not rice. Millers get good margin in the production of parboiled rice rather than white rice. The parboiled rice gives 7% more production than the white rice. Moreover, Millers also get more profit by producing edible oil from the parboiled paddy husk”, BJP State general secretary Lekhasree Samant Singhar said at a press meet.
The Food Corporation of India (FCI) has given its consent to take 50% parboiled rice and urged the State to give as much as white rice, she added.
Parboiled rice is consumed only in…