FE
The country’s first silos for storing rice built under a private-public-partnership (PPP) model with the Food Corporation of India (FCI) will be commissioned next month.Two rice silos with combined capacity of 25,000 tonne have been built by the National Commodity Management Services Ltd (NCML) at Buxar and Kaimur in Bihar under the design-build-finance-operate-transfer model (DBFOT), according to a food ministry official.This is part of the government’s pilot project to set up steel silos for rice to prevent cereal wastage during storage. Officials said that technology for silos to store rice is still being developed, as at these facilities, the grain has to be stored at 15 degrees Celsius.
“Construction of 2 MT of silos is already completed and is being used, while a MT capacity silos are expected to be handed over to us next month,” an official told FE.In addition, 3.4 MT of silos construction was sanctioned six months ago, whose construction is expected to commence soon, the official added.
