Government approves cooperative grain storage program worth Rs. 1L crore
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The Centre on Wednesday approved a Rs. 1 lakh crore program to increase the foodgrain storage capacity in India's cooperative sector by 700 lakh tons, said Union Minister Anurag Singh Thakur, terming it the world's largest such scheme. Thakur said India's grain storage capacity in the cooperative sector will increase from 1,450 lakh tons to 2,150 lakh tons in the next five years.