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The World's Largest Grain Storage Plan in Cooperative Sector, approved 31 May 2023, builds warehouses, custom hiring centres, processing units and Fair Price Shops at the level of individual PACS.
1,015 storage projects have been approved nationally; 313 godowns are fully constructed and 203 more are under construction.
Gujarat leads with 275 projects approved, followed by Rajasthan (201) and Andhra Pradesh (117, all completed).
The plan is implemented by converging four existing central schemes — AIF, AMI, SMAM and PMFME — rather than through a fresh standalone budget.
Information was given by Union Home Minister and Minister of Cooperation Amit Shah in a written Rajya Sabha reply.
Medium/long-term debt financing for post-harvest management and community farming infrastructure
Key: Launched 9 August 2020 under Aatmanirbhar Bharat; ₹1 lakh crore corpus, 3% interest subvention on loans up to ₹2 crore
Support storage/marketing infrastructure closer to farmers
Key: Converged into PACS-level godown/warehouse construction under the Grain Storage Plan
Promote farm mechanisation, including custom hiring centres
Key: Converged for custom hiring centre creation at PACS level
Formalise and support micro food processing units
Key: Converged for processing-unit creation at PACS level
Statutory corporation financing and promoting cooperative development, including agri-infrastructure projects under the Grain Storage Plan
Approved on 31 May 2023, the plan builds decentralised storage and allied infrastructure — warehouses, custom hiring centres, processing units and Fair Price Shops — at the level of individual PACS across the country, rather than through large centralised godowns. It works by converging four existing Central schemes (AIF, AMI, SMAM, PMFME), so each type of PACS-level infrastructure draws on the scheme designed for that purpose, without a new standalone budget line.
Simple Analogy: Instead of building a few giant central warehouses, the plan builds thousands of smaller ones right where the grain is grown — at the village-level PACS — using money already earmarked for farm infrastructure, mechanisation and food processing.
The same PACS network being digitised under the ERP-based National Software is where this storage infrastructure is being built
PACS-level decentralised storage supplements FCI's larger centralised godowns, cutting post-harvest losses closer to the farm
GS Paper 3 > Indian Economy > Agriculture Infrastructure & Storage
With reference to 'National Investment and Infrastructure Fund', which of the following statements is/are correct? 1. It is an organ of NITI Aayog. 2. It has a corpus of ₹4,00,000 crore at present. Select the correct answer using the code given below:
Answer: Neither 1 nor 2
According to the Indian Railways (2019-2020), which state has the largest railway track in India?
Answer: Uttar Pradesh
Recurring — Grain Storage Plan progress features regularly in Parliament replies as construction proceeds
Storage, processing and retail infrastructure built at the village-level Primary Agricultural Credit Society rather than centrally
Financing one project by drawing on multiple existing schemes for their respective components, instead of a new standalone budget