Paddy and wheat procurements have went up for the continuing season
Paddy procurement within the ongoing kharif season kharif 2020-21 has touched an all time excessive of 805 LMT, surpassing the earlier excessive of 773.45 LMT, in keeping with an announcement issued by the Ministry of Consumer Affairs and Public Distribution.
Official sources mentioned that paddy procurement is continuous easily within the procuring states with buy of 805.21 LMTs of paddy (which additionally contains kharif crop 706.93 LMT and Rabi Crop 98.28 LMT) until June 4, 2021 towards final 12 months’s corresponding buy of 732.40 LMT.
About 119.42 lakh farmers have already benefitted from the continuing procurement operations with minimal assist value (MSP) worth of Rs 1,52,022.37 crore.
Similarly, procurement of wheat within the ongoing season of 2021-22 has been 413 LMT until June 4, which can also be an all time excessive, in comparison with the earlier excessive 389.92 LMT of 2020-21.
