PADDY PROCUREMENT: Punjab creates new record
Author(s): City Air NewsChandigarh, December 3, 2012: Punjab has created a new record in the paddy procurement; beating the previous year procurement of 118 Lakh MT by a big margin despite 42% deficient rains this monsoon. Till December...
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Dec 3, 2012 12:30
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Chandigarh, December 3, 2012: Punjab has created a new record in the paddy procurement; beating the previous year procurement of 118 Lakh MT by a big margin despite 42% deficient rains this monsoon.
Till December 2, paddy procurement in the state crossed 133 Lakh MT (13320113 MT) during current Kharif marketing season.
A spokesman of the Punjab Government today said this could be possible as farmers of Punjab nurtured the crops this season with their hard work and incurring extra expenditure of Rs 900 crore on diesel to save the paddy, besides the efforts of Punjab Government that provided free electricity of Rs 5200 crore to farmers.
He said that till now PUNGRAIN has secured the top position in procurement with 29.6 %, followed by PUNSUP 22.8 % and MARKFED 22.8%. He further said that state agencies has procured 95.4 % paddy and only 4.6% paddy has been procured by the millers.
The spokesman added that district Ludhiana with 1573880 tones of procurement was leading in procurement operations whereas district Sangrur with 1559036 tones of procurement was at second slot and district Patiala with 1239714 tones of procurement ranked at third position.
