APEDA to undertake basmati rice survey, agency to be selected by March

Basmati Export Progress Basis (BEDF) of government’s agri export marketing body APEDA has invited bids by February 18 for crop study to estimate acreage and assess crop wellness and expected yield of Basmati rice in the course of 2022 and 2023.

However, it has kept out individuals companies who have working experience only in yield estimation by way of crop cutting experiments, even as quite a few agri tech corporations have been enrolled by the authorities, some even with out prior experience because of to new areas opening up for the personal sector in the crop insurance phase.

The study could not be undertaken in very last two a long time due to Covid pandemic when APEDA has been enterprise crop estimate of Basmati rice considering the fact that 2003. “Field primarily based survey is to be carried out on the basis of sample group of farmers picked at district stage in Geographical Indications (GI) area of Punjab, Haryana, Himachal Pradesh, Uttarakhand, Delhi, western Uttar Pradesh and Jammu and Kashmir,” APEDA stated in a detect.

Specific product

It has questioned organizations to submit with thorough product and procedures to be utilised for the crop survey. The two the ‘Technical Bid’ and ‘Financial Bid’ should really be submitted separately, it claimed.

The ailments for the bidding has phrases such as that a business shall have least of 5 yrs of encounter in carrying out crop surveys with satellite imageries and field dependent surveys for a trade system or government business in India. “Experience of crop chopping experiments will not be considered for this purpose,” it claimed.

The satellite imageries and industry-based mostly study shall have to protect acreage estimation of all basmati rice crop varieties differentiated in standard and progressed versions of Basmati rice and Sharbati and Sugandha types of non-Basmati. Stories will have to be submitted on district stage basis for each and every State.

Fears elevated

However, industry experts have questioned the legitimacy being offered to non-notified kinds of Basmati since Sharbati and Suganda as they are thought of to be mainly used for mixing in pure Basmati. “It could be also projected that non-notified kinds are in the course of action of notification,” stated an expert, introducing “why must adulterants be surveyed”. By delivering amount of these kinds of non-basmati crops, the study will unwittingly aid in depressing genuine Basmati paddy charges or distort market sentiments, he mentioned.

APEDA stated variety-intelligent crop wellness checking and investigation will also have to be performed by the selected agency in addition to progress prediction of produce via local weather-primarily based generate modeling using 10 yrs of historical generate and local climate facts.

Experiences will have to be submitted in July, August, September, Oct, November and December by end of every month. In scenario of abnormal temperature conditions and pests/illnesses attack, impacting yields, fortnightly report will also have to be submitted specifically at crop maturity period of time.

The bidders who protected minimum amount 70 for each cent marks (49 out of 70 marks) in specialized displays will be shortlisted and their monetary bids shall then be opened. Fiscal bid will carry a highest of 30 marks.

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February 07, 2022