Haryana is all set to register a record arrival of paddy this year with more than 68.57 lakh metric tonnes (MT) of paddy already arriving in the mandis (grain markets) of the state.
last year, more than 69.56 lakh MT of paddy was procured in Haryana.
Out of the total arrival of paddy so far, government agencies had procured over 58.71 lakh MT of paddy whereas the remaining over 9.85 lakh MT of paddy was procured by the millers, said a spokesman of Food, Civil Supplies and Consumer Affairs Department.
He said that more than 27.36 lakh MT of paddy have been purchased by the Food, Civil Supplies and Consumer Affairs Department, over 19.18 lakh MT by Hafed, more than 6.40 lakh MT by the Haryana Warehousing Corporation, more than 5.56 lakh MT by the Haryana Agro-industries Corporation and 19,667 MT by the Food Corporation of India.