Centre procures record 56 lakh tonnes wheat from UP

The Centre has procured a file 56.forty one lakh tonnes of wheat from Uttar Pradesh during the latest rabi advertising and marketing year, producing a file payment of ₹11,141 crore to thirteen lakh farmers in the Point out, said an official statement on Monday.

This file procurement – which is just about 58 for each cent more than past season’s 35.seventy seven lakh tonnes – arrives in tune with the Centre procuring a file 433.3 lakh tonnes of wheat from varios wheat expanding States. The range of farmers, who have benefitted from wheat procurement this yr, has also doubled from six.sixty four lakh farmers past yr.

Paddy procurement

There was substantial increase in paddy procurement, too, in the Point out during the kharif advertising and marketing year 2020-21. It has procured a file 66.84 lakh tonnes of paddy from 10.22 lakh farmers, having to pay them a sum of ₹12,491.88 crore. In comparison, the wheat procurement past yr was all over 389.92 lakh tonnes. As many 49 lakh farmers benefitted from this year’s wheat procurement, the statement said.

Uttar Pradesh’s highest procurement just before this was in 2018 when fifty two.94 lakh tonnes of wheat were procured. In 2012, the Centre procured fifty.sixty three lakh tonnes, according to Meals Corporation of India details.