Wheat buy in 2017-18 crosses last year's total

Centre estimates wheat production in 2017-18 crop year to be at an all-time high of around 98 mt

Wheat procurement by state and central agencies surpassed last year’s total purchases as on date and totaled around 24.66 million tonnes, as against 20.84 million tonnes during the same period last year.
 
In the 2016-17 crop marketing year, the central government purchased 22.9 million tonnes of wheat for the central pool, almost 22 per cent less than the targeted procurement of 28 million tonnes. For 2017-18, the Centre has fixed a target of purchasing 33 million tonnes of wheat from farmers, almost 44 per cent more than the actual procurement of last year, mainly on the hopes of a