Spokesman News Service, Chandigarh (25th Oct'18): The Government agencies and private millers have procured 5844672 metric tonnes of Paddy in Punjab till October 24 while payment worth Rs. 6790.95 crore has been transferred to the accounts of arthias/farmers by the government. Disclosing this here today, an official spokesman of the Government of Punjab informed that out of the total procurement from various procurement centres in the State, the Government agencies procured 5788680 MT of paddy while 55992 MT has been procured by the millers.
Giving the details, the spokesman said that PUNGRAIN has procured 1951670 tonnes, MARKFED 1370813 tonnes and PUNSUP procured 1167680 tonnes while Punjab State Warehousing Corporation and Punjab Agro Foodgrains Corporation procured 586638 and 602293 MT paddy respectively. The Centre government agency FCI has procured 109586 MT paddy.