{"id":7107,"date":"2026-04-22T18:20:20","date_gmt":"2026-04-22T12:50:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/banitoday.com\/after-4-year-gap-delhi-to-procure-wheat-from-food-corporation-of-india-again-delhi-news\/"},"modified":"2026-04-22T18:20:20","modified_gmt":"2026-04-22T12:50:20","slug":"after-4-year-gap-delhi-to-procure-wheat-from-food-corporation-of-india-again-delhi-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/banitoday.com\/hi\/after-4-year-gap-delhi-to-procure-wheat-from-food-corporation-of-india-again-delhi-news\/","title":{"rendered":"After 4-year gap, Delhi to procure wheat from Food Corporation of India again | Delhi News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div data-articlebody=\"1\"><video-embed value=\"false\"\/><\/p>\n<div class=\"ihgno clearfix  \">\n<div class=\"e9jwa\">\n<div class=\"vdo_embedd\">\n<div class=\"GfdvZ\">\n<section class=\"_bIDB  clearfix id-r-component leadmedia undefined undefined  E9tg9 \" style=\"top:0px\">\n<div class=\"_bIDB\" data-ua-type=\"1\" onclick=\"stpPgtnAndPrvntDefault(event)\">\n<div class=\"ypVvZ\">\n<div class=\"WGttI\"><img src=\"https:\/\/static.toiimg.com\/thumb\/msid-47529300,imgsize-110164,width-400,height-225,resizemode-72\/47529300.jpg\" alt=\"After 4-year gap, Delhi to procure wheat from Food Corporation of India again\" decoding=\"async\" fetchpriority=\"high\"\/><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>New Delhi: The Centre has accepted Delhi govt\u2019s request to restart wheat procurement in the capital through Food Corporation of India (FCI) after a gap of four years. This is expected to strengthen the local agricultural ecosystem by ensuring that farmers receive the minimum support price for their produce.<span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"2\"\/>Procurement will commence from April 24 at the FCI depot in Narela and the Najafgarh mandi.<span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"4\"\/>Chief minister Rekha Gupta said, \u201cThis is an important step in prioritising farmers\u2019 interests. With coordinated efforts between the Centre and Delhi govt, farmers in the capital will be able to secure fair value for their produce and become more economically empowered\u201d.<span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"6\"\/>The development follows a recent letter by Gupta to Union consumer affairs, food and public distribution minister Pralhad Joshi. In her communication, CM flagged that the absence of local procurement was forcing farmers to sell below MSP, adversely impacting their incomes.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/timesofindia.indiatimes.com\/city\/delhi\/after-4-year-gap-delhi-to-procure-wheat-from-food-corporation-of-india-again\/articleshow\/130424045.cms\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New Delhi: The Centre has accepted Delhi govt\u2019s request to restart wheat procurement in the capital through Food Corporation of India (FCI) after a gap of four years. This is expected to strengthen the local agricultural ecosystem by ensuring that farmers receive the minimum support price for their produce.Procurement will commence from April 24 at [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1874,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[150],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-7107","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-delhi"},"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/banitoday.com\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7107","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/banitoday.com\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/banitoday.com\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/banitoday.com\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/banitoday.com\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7107"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/banitoday.com\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7107\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/banitoday.com\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1874"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/banitoday.com\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7107"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/banitoday.com\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7107"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/banitoday.com\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7107"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}