Haryana’s New CMR Policy: Millers Upset

20-Sep-2025 10:46 AM

The new Custom Milled Rice (CMR) policy has worried rice millers.

Under the new policy, the permissible limit for broken rice has been reduced from 25% to 10%, which will increase production costs and make it difficult to meet the target.

In addition, the government has fixed additional costs at ₹2.23/quintal for milling, ₹1.23/quintal for storage, and ₹3.33/quintal for packaging — whereas the actual cost is around ₹25/quintal, which millers say is far too low.

The policy also mandates that millers supply rice according to a strict schedule — 15% by December, 25% by January, 20% by February, 15% by March, another 15% by May, and the final 10% by June 30. Millers say that if paddy is not transported on time, meeting these deadlines will be very difficult.

The government has also said it will not provide transportation facilities to move paddy from grain markets to FCI warehouses.

This year, the state expects around 8.4 million metric tons of paddy to arrive. Of this, 5.4 MMT will be procured by the government, with a target of 3.6 MMT of rice to be delivered to the central pool.

The Millers’ Association has urged the government to reconsider the broken rice limit and cost rates, and to ensure timely transportation arrangements so that neither farmers nor millers suffer losses.