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The wheat procurement target for Rabi marketing season (RMS) 2016-17 will be same as the last year at 300 lakh tonne.
This was decided by the Centre in consultation with State Food Secretaries at a conference here on Monday chaired by Vrinda Sarup, Secretary (Food).
“In consultation with the States, it was decided to procure 300 lakh tonnes (lt) of wheat during RMS 2016-17, which is the same as was for the last season. The actual procurement of wheat during RMS 2015-16 was 280.88 lt, inspite of wheat crop getting affected due to untimely rains and hailstorms during last March-April,” an official statement said.
The State-wise break-up of the target of wheat procurement during this Rabi 2016-17 is as follows: Punjab will buy 110 lt, Madhya Pradesh 68 lt, Haryana 65 lt, Uttar Pradesh 30 lt, Rajasthan 18 lt, Bihar 7 lt, Uttarakhand 1 lt, Gujarat 0.85 lt and other States 0.15 lt.
It also pegged rabi rice procurement at 50 lakh tonnes, taking its target for total rice procurement in 2015-16 (October-March) to 350 lakh tonnes.
Till last week, the government had bought 261 lt rice from farmers in the current procurement season that started October, up over 21 per centon year.
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