The wheat procurement in Haryana has reached 61.30 lakh metric tonnes during current Rabi season which is about 2.04 lakh metric tonnes higher as compared to the procurement made upto May 4 last year. During last season, 59,26,151 (59.26 lakh) metric tonnes wheat was purchased upto May 4. A spokesman of Food and Supplies Department on Tuesday said that out of the total arrival this year, 61,30,692 metric tonnes (MT) of crop has been procured by Government procuring agencies on Minimum Support Price and remaining 175 metric tonne was mopped up by the traders.
He said that payment of crop amounting to Rs7,810.49 crore upto May 2 had already been released by the department and other procurement agencies. Giving details of the procurement, he said that over 18.07 lakh MT of wheat had been procured by the Food and Supplies Department, over 26.65 lakh MT by HAFED, over 6.44 lakh MT by Haryana Agro, more than 10.07 lakh MT by Haryana Warehousing Corporation and 5800 metric tonnes wheat was purchased by Confed. The spokesperson said that out of the total crop purchased this year, over 50.08 lakh metric tonnes of wheat has already been lifted. Out of this, over 30.53 lakh metric tonnes had been shifted to godowns and warehouses.