Wheat procurement during current, Ravi Marketing Season 2012-13, has crossed the mark of 370 lakh tonne. Total 371, 97,161 tonne wheat has been procured by the various Government agencies by June 22, 2012 while procurement on the day of previous Ravi Season was 275, 04,417 tonne.
Punjab has led the procurement by 128,26,540 tonne wheat followed by Haryana 86,65,380 tonne and Madhya Pradesh 84,92,820 tonne . Uttar Pradesh has also procured significant quantity i.e 45, 46,593 tonne.
23 June 2012