Wheat procurement surges to 32.6 mt in marketing season of April-June

28 May 2012 Evaluate

The record production of wheat this year has led to a wheat procurement of 32.6 million tonnes (mt) in the marketing season of April-June. This is more than the government’s estimate of 31.8 mt and is expected to grow further as wheat from Uttar Pradesh and Madhya Pradesh is still coming in.

UP and MP are seeing a daily crop arrival of up to 150,000 tonnes. This is in contrast to the almost dried up arrival of 16,500 tonnes daily seen by Punjab and Haryana who have already contributed record 12.8 mt and 8.6 mt of the grain respectively this year.

Punjab and Haryana had procured nearly 10.9 mt and 6.92 mt of wheat respectively in the previous season. Wheat purchase in Madhya Pradesh stood 6.9 mt this year while that in Uttar Pradesh was at 2.5 mt this year. Food Corporation of India (FCI) and other state agencies had procured about 24.8 mt in the year-ago period. In the entire 2011-12, the procurement stood at 28.33 mt.

India is the second largest producer of wheat in the world. It is estimated that India will produce a record 90.23 mt in the 2011-12 crop year (July-June). Its storage however, is likely to be a task for the government. This is because the government has a capacity to store 62.8 mt of foodgrains but the stocks are expected to go upto 75 mt by end of this month.

The Ranagarajan committee had suggested last week that the government should consider offloading of 10 mt of wheat to BPL and APL families and three million tonnes through open market sale. The panel had also suggested exports of 2 million tonnes of wheat from the government godowns.

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