Centre purchases 29.26 million tonne of wheat from farmers so far in 2019-20

17 May 2019 Evaluate

The Centre has purchased 29.26 million tonne of wheat from farmers in the ongoing 2019-20 marketing year (April-March) so far. The Centre has set the wheat procurement target at 35.7 million tonne for the 2019-20 on hopes of a record 100 million tonne production this year. State-run Food Corporation of India (FCI) along with state government agencies buy wheat at the minimum support price to meet the demand of welfare schemes.

Wheat MSP has been fixed at Rs 1,840 per quintal for this year. Of the total 29.26 million tonne purchased so far, about 12.1 million tonne of wheat has been purchased in Punjab and 9 million tonne in Haryana, while around 5.3 million tonne of the grain has been procured in Madhya Pradesh, 1.93 million tonne in Uttar Pradesh and 8,59,000 tonne in Rajasthan in the said period.

Besides, FCI is facing space crunch to keep the new wheat crop because of huge stock in the godowns. As a result, the agency has decided to offload 10 million tonne wheat to bulk consumers during this fiscal. In 2018-19, the government had procured 358 lakh tonne, surpassing the target of 320 lakh tonne.

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