OREANDA-NEWS. July 15, 2015. Wheat procurement by government agencies during current Rabi marketing season has crossed the last year mark. As on July 13, 2015, total 280.87 lakh MT wheat has been procured in various wheat growing states, while during last season, on the day, it was 2 71.66 lakh MT on the day. Infact procurement so far has crossed the total procurement of last Rabi reason, which was 280.23 lakh MT.

State wise procurement is as follows:

State/ UT

Procurement

Punjab

103,43,731

Haryana

67,77,859

U.P

22,67,111

M.P

73,09,167

Rajasthan

13,00,017

Uttarakhand

           4,085

Chandigarh

           10,864

Delhi

           1,787

Gujarat

           73,135

All India total

           280,87,756