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FCI granaries are overflowing with food grains

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The given statement is true.
To provide essential items to the weaker sections of society, FCI (Food Corporation of India) is responsible for buying the surplus production of food grains from the states which have surplus production of wheat, rice, sugar, etc. FCI granaries are overflowing with food grains. due to FCI's increased food grain procurement in comparison to the actual requirement The major food-producing states such as Punjab, Haryana, and Andhra Pradesh have put immense pressure on the government to buy their grain production under the minimum support price scheme. The calculated food grain stock with the government of India was at its maximum in July 2002.

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