Chandigarh
The Government agencies and private millers have procured 15368462 metric tonnes of Paddy in Punjab till November 14.

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 15272269 MT of paddy while 96193 MT has been procured by the millers.

Giving the details, the spokesman said that PUNGRAIN has procured 5339254 tonnes, MARKFED 3506407 tonnes and PUNSUP procured 3181007 tonnes while Punjab State Warehousing Corporation and Punjab Agro Foodgrains Corporation procured 1433908 and 1584822 MT paddy respectively. The Centre government agency FCI has procured 226871 MT paddy.