Chandigarh
The Government agencies and private millers have procured 169.04lakh metric tonnes of paddy in Punjab till November 26.

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 167.88LMT of paddy while 115986 MT has been procured by the millers. Besides, 167.33 LMT paddy has been lifted.

Giving the details, the spokesman said that PUNGRAIN has procured 5874464 metric tonnes, MARKFED 3855492 tonnes and PUNSUP procured 3513512 tonnes while Punjab State Warehousing Corporation and Punjab Agro Foodgrains Corporation procured 1559081 and 1738724 MT paddy respectively. The Centre government agency FCI has procured 246845 MT paddy.