Functions

(As per Allocation of Business Rules)

1. Participation in international Conferences, Associations and other bodies concerning food, i.e. International Wheat Council, World Food Council, International Food Policy Research Institute, Commission/Committees on Food Security and implementation of decisions made thereat.
2. Entering into treaties and agreements with foreign countries and implementing treaties, agreements, conventions with foreign countries relating to trade and commerce in foodgrains and other foodstuffs.
3. Hiring and acquisition of godowns for storage of foodgrains including sugar, taking on lease or acquiring land for construction of foodgrains godowns.
4. Matters relating to the Food Corporation of India and the Central Warehousing Corporation.
5. Purchase of foodstuffs for civil requirements and their disposal and also for military requirements of sugar, rice and wheat.
6. Inter-State trade and commerce in respect of foodgrains and other foodstuffs including sugar.
7. Trade and commerce in, and supply and distribution of, foodgrains.
8. Trade and commerce in, and the production, supply and distribution of sugar and foodstuffs other than foodgrains.
9. Price control of sugar, foodgrains and foodstuffs.
10. Public Distribution System.
11. The Essential Commodities Act, 1955 (10 of 1955) and the Prevention of Black Marketing and Maintenance of Supplies of Essential Commodities Act, 1980 (7 of 1980), in so far as foodgrains are concerned.
12. Industries relating to Vanaspati, Oil seeds, Vegetable oils, Cakes, Fats and Sugar (including development of sugar khandsari).
13. Price Control of and inter-state trade and commerce in and supply and distribution of Vanaspati, Oilseeds, Vegetable Oils, Cakes and Fats
14. Directorate of Vanaspati, Vegetable Oils and Fats.
15. Directorate of Sugar, New Delhi.
16. National Sugar Institute, Kanpur.
17. National Institute of Sugar and Sugarcane Technology, Mau.
18. Matters relating to the Development Council of Sugar Industry, New Delhi.
19. International Sugar Council.
20. Sugar Development Fund.
21. Molasses
22. Alcohol – industrial and potable from the molasses route
23. Stand-alone Distilleries.