The Ministry of Agriculture and RuralDevelopment announced the delay on August 10, adding the implementationof the plan faced many difficulties.
Under the plan, theconstruction of a storage system with a total capacity of 2.5 milliontonnes of paddy rice and the upgrade of a 0.47 million tonnes systemwill be completed by the end of this year.
Additionally, localenterprises will modernise their repositories to increase thecountry’s storage capacity to 10 million tonnes of paddy rice a year by2015./.