Wheat Procurement surpasses last year’s mark

Wheat procurement by government agencies during current Rabi marketing season has been reported to cross the last year mark. A total of 280.87 lakh MT wheat has been procured till date  in various wheat growing states, while during last season it was 2 71.66 lakh MT. Further, the procurement so far has crossed the total procurement of last Rabi season which stood at  280.23 lakh MT. State wise procurement as on July 14, 2015 is as follows:                                                                    (in MT) State/ UT Procurement Punjab 103,43,731 M.P 73,09,167 Haryana 67,77,859 U.P 22,67,111 Rajasthan 13,00,017 Gujarat                  73,135 Chandigarh                  10,864 Uttarakhand                    4,085 Delhi                    1,787 All India total             280,87,756