Chandigarh, December 12, 2017: The Punjab Government agencies and private millers have procured total 17905450 tonnes of Paddy in Punjab till today evening which included 10644 tonnes procured on 12th December.
Disclosing this here today, an official Spokesman of Punjab Government said that out of total procurement of 17905450 tonnes of paddy in all the procurement centres of Punjab, the Government agencies procured 17632818 tonnes of paddy (98.5%) till date whereas 272632 tonnes (1.5%) of paddy has been procured by millers.
He said that PUNGRAIN had procured 5995872 tonnes (33.5%), MARKFED procured 3891191 tonnes (21.7%). PUNSUP procured 3841267 tonnes (21.5%), PSWC procured 1751943 tonnes (9.8%) and PAFC was able to procure 1771960 tonnes (9.9%) of paddy. The Central Government agency FCI had been able to procure 380585 tonnes (2.1%).