Relevance: Prelims: Economy
Why in news?
- The Centre has taken a number of initiatives to ensure a smooth supply of essential items during the lockdown period arising out of the COVID-19 pandemic.
- The Textiles Ministry has taken measures to protect the production of wheat farmers by providing them alternate packaging bags.
About:
• It has extended limit for High-Density PolyEthylene/Polypropylene bags from 1.80 lakh bales to 2.62 lakh to tide over the crisis of packaging of foodgrains due to closure of jute mills due to lockdown.
- This move has been taken mainly to protect the interest of wheat farmers as grains are likely to be ready for packing mid of this month onwards.
- However, whenever the production of jute bags in the jute mills resumes after the lockdown period is over, priority will be given to the jute bags for the packaging of food grains.
- To help jute farmers during the lockdown period, the Textiles Ministry has written to all jute growing States to allow movement, sale, and supply of jute seeds, fertilizers, and other farming aids.
- The government is committed to protecting the interest of the jute farmers and workers through provisions of the Jute Packaging Materials Act and it provides about 100 percent reservation for packaging of food grains in jute bags.
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