The Government agencies and private millers have procured 5209257 metric tonnes of Paddy in Punjab till October 23...
Spokesman News Service, Chandigarh (24th Oct'18): The Government agencies and private millers have procured 5209257 metric tonnes of Paddy in Punjab till October 23. 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 5155934 MT of paddy while 53323 MT has been procured by the millers.
Giving the details, the spokesman said that PUNGRAIN has procured 1723940 tonnes, MARKFED 1225140 tonnes and PUNSUP procured 1050184 tonnes while Punjab State Warehousing Corporation and Punjab Agro Foodgrains Corporation procured 517939 and 543323 MT paddy respectively. The Centre government agency FCI has procured 95408 MT paddy.
