World’s Largest Grain Storage Plan ▪ The National Level Coordination Committee (NLCC) held its first meeting for the implementation of the World’s largest grain storage plan in New Delhi. ▪ This plan envisages to transform Primary Agricultural Credit Society (PACS) into Multi-Service Societies through convergence of various existing schemes of the Government of India (GoI), such as, ✓ Agriculture Infrastructure Fund (AIF) ✓ Agricultural Marketing Infrastructure Scheme (AMI) ✓ Sub Mission on Agricultural Mechanization (SMAM) ✓ Pradhan Mantri Formalization of Micro Food Processing Enterprises Scheme (PMFME) About Grain Storage Plan ▪ Introduced as a pilot project in 11 states in 2023. ▪ Implementation - National Cooperative Development Corporation (NCDC) ▪ Objective - To address the shortage of food grain storage capacity in India.
