The wheat arrival in Haryana has reached 65,75,119 (65.7 lakh) metric tonnes upto May 11 during current Rabi season.
Out of total arrival, 65,74,697 metric tonnes of crop has been procured by government procuring agencies on Minimum Support Price and remaining 422 metric tonnes (MT) has been procured by the traders.
A spokesman of Haryana Food and Supplies Department on Tuesday said that over 19.52 lakh MT wheat had been procured by the Food and Supplies Department, over 28.65 lakh MT by Hafed, over 6.76 lakh MT by Haryana Agro, more than 10.73 lakh MT by Haryana Warehousing Corporation and 5,800 metric tonnes of wheat was purchased by Confed.
Sirsa is leading in wheat arrival where more than 10.02 lakh metric tonnes of wheat had arrived in the mandis (grain markets), followed by Karnal with over 6.73 lakh MT wheat. Fatehabad recorded an arrival of over 6.52 lakh MT, district Jind more than 5.97 lakh metric tonnes and district Kaithal had recorded 5.90 lakh metric tonnes wheat.