Centre writes to States again to ensure reduction in edible oil prices

The Department of Food and Public Distribution (DFPD) will be meeting all States/UTs on Monday, October 25, 2021 through video conferencing to review the action taken on the stock limit order on edible prices.

In a letter written to all states by Secretary DFPD, Shri Sudhanshu Pandey, the Department has outlined initiatives taken by the Centre to ease prices of Edible Oils for relief of consumer and keeping the festive season in mind.

The DFPD is monitoring the prices of edible oils and there availability to the consumers. This is especially important to the context of the upcoming festival season in which demand of edible oils will increase. Various steps have already been taken by the government like based on the interaction with all the states and edible oil industry associations, stock disclosure notification has been issued and DFPD has created a web portal to monitor the stock of edible oils/oilseeds on a weekly basis in the country.

Demand and consumption of edible is different for the different states/UTs as per the preference of the consumers. However, for finalizing the stock limit quantity of edible oils and oilseeds, the states/UTs may consider/explore the previous stock limit imposed for edible oils and oilseeds by the state/UTs. It may be considered that any stakeholder (refiners, miller, wholesaler etc.) should not hold the stocks in excess two months of the storage capacity.

For guidance states may prefer to indicative limits which may have been imposed by states earlier is enclosed for consideration. However, for other categories similar quantities as appropriate for the state may be fixed. For example: for refiners, stocks of maximum of 2 months of the average scale of last six months could be used. Similarly, quanitities may be fixed for extractors/millers may be fixed.

COMMODITY-WISE STOCK LIMIT IMPOSED BY STATES/UTS SINCE 2002

 

COMMODITY () STATES/UTs()	Pulse (2006-17)	Edible Oil (2008-18)	Edible Oilseeds (2008-18)	Onion (2014-16) (2017-18) (2019-20)	Sugar (2009-11) (2016-18)	Rice (2008-14)	Paddy (2008-14)	Potato (2014-15)
Andhra Pradesh	Retailers- 10-155 qtls. Wholesalers-250- 5500 qtls	Retailers- 30-100 qtls. Wholesalers-370- 900 qtls	Retailers- 75-150 qtls. Wholesalers-1200- 2250 qtls	NR	Retailers- 40-50qtls. Wholesalers-1000- 2000 qtls	Trading Rice Mills- 4000 qtls Non Trading Rice Mills- 1000-2000 qtls Wholesalers- 250-1000 qtls Retailers- 50- 100 qtls	Wholesalers- 750 qtls Retailers- 150 qtls	Not Imposed
Arunachal Pradesh	Not Reported					Not Reported	Not Reported
Assam	10 qtls	Not Reported
Bihar	500-1500 qtls	250-500 qtls	500-1000 qtls	Not Reported
Chhattisgarh	300-1000 qtls	250 qtls	500 qtls
Goa	Retailers- 30 qtls. Wholesalers- 500 qtls	Retailers- 10 qtls. Wholesalers- 350 qtls	Retailers- 50 qtls. Wholesalers- 500 qtls		Retailers- 50 qtls. Wholesalers- 125 qtls
Gujarat	Retailers- 50 qtls. Wholesalers- 1000 qtls	Retailers- 45 qtls. Wholesalers- 600 qtls	Retailers- 100 qtls. Wholesalers- 2000 qtls	Not Reported
Haryana	Retailers- 25 qtls. Wholesalers- 250 qtls	Retailers- 25 qtls. Wholesalers- 1500 qtls	Retailers- 25 qtls. Wholesalers- 1500 qtls	Not Reported
Himachal Pradesh	20-150 qtls	10 qtls	50 qtls
Jammu and Kashmir	Retailers- 600 qtls. Wholesalers- 1200 qtls	Retailers- 1100 qtls. Wholesalers- 2200 qtls	Not Reported	Retailers- 300 qtls. Wholesalers- 600 qtls
Jharkhand	Retailers- 50 qtls Wholesalers- 500- 1000 qtls	Retailers- 50 qtls Wholesalers- 300- 500 qtls	Wholesalers-50-2000 qtls	Wholesalers- 300- 500 qtls	Retailers- 50 qtls Wholesalers- 5000 qtls	Wholesalers- 1000 qtls	Wholesalers- 1000 qtls
Karnataka	Retailers- 50 qtls. Wholesalers- 2000- 5000 qtls	Retailers- 50 qtls. Wholesalers-1000- 1200qtls	Retailers- 50 qtls. Wholesalers- 1000- 2000 qtls	Not Reported	Retailers- 50 qtls. Wholesalers- 1000- 2000 qtls	Not Reported	Not Reported

# Statement is prepared on the basis of information available.

NOTE: Stock Limits shown in range conveys that, since 2002 States/UTs have imposed stock limit within this range only.

Not Reported: Either no information has been received from States/UTs or States/UTs have not imposed Stock limit on this commodity.