Chandigarh
The Government agencies and private millers have procured 10390158 metric tonnes of Paddy in Punjab till November 02 .

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 10720986 MT of paddy while 77692 MT has been procured by the millers.

Giving the details, the spokesman said that PUNGRAIN has procured 3676394 tonnes, MARKFED 2481843 tonnes and PUNSUP procured 2207414 tonnes while Punjab State Warehousing Corporation and Punjab Agro Foodgrains Corporation procured 1053187 and 1117208 MT paddy respectively. The Centre government agency FCI has procured 184940 MT paddy.