Record wheat arrives in Haryana

He said that out of the total, 51.81 lakh metric tonnes of wheat was procured by the government procuring agencies while only 69,968 metric tonnes wheat was procured by the traders which was about one per cent of the total procurement of wheat during this season.    

Enumerating the wheat procurement, he said that 10.71 lakh metric tonnes of wheat was procured by Food and Supplies Department, 19.16 lakh metric tonnes by Hafed, 7.81 lakh by Food Corporation of India (FCI), 4.55 lakh metric tonnes by Haryana Agro Industries, 4.83 lakh metric tonnes by Haryana Warehousing Corporation and 4.72 lakh metric tonnes by Confed.    

 

He said that district Sirsa was leading where 7.60 lakh metric tonnes of wheat was arrived in mandis followed by Karnal with 6.02 lakh metric tonnes wheat.