After paddy file, wheat procurement at all-time top

Amid protests in opposition to the 3 farm regulations, the procurement of wheat has soared to an all-time top, a file noticed with paddy as neatly.

The most recent information to be had with the Meals Company of India (FCI) displays wheat procurement reached 405 lakh metric tonnes (LMT) until Might 29 within the ongoing rabi advertising season (RMS)—four in keeping with cent upper than 390 LMT in RMS 2020-21. The present 12 months’s wheat procurement determine is the absolute best ever.

This could also be the primary time that wheat procurement has crossed the 400 LMT mark.

Within the present rabi advertising season, the absolute best wheat procurement—132 LMT—has been reported from Punjab. The state is adopted by way of Madhya Pradesh (127 LMT) and Haryana (84.93 LMT).

Remaining 12 months, Madhya Pradesh was once the highest wheat purchasing state.

Throughout this rabi season, wheat procurement has been upper in each Punjab and Haryana, which might be the epicentre of farmers’ agitation. Remaining 12 months, the wheat procurement figures for Punjab and Haryana have been 127 LMT and 74 LMT respectively.

The file wheat procurement comes simply after the best-ever top procurement of paddy. Within the 2020-21 kharif advertising season, paddy procurement was once 789 LMT—in comparison to 773 LMT in KMS 2019-20, in keeping with FCI information. The absolute best paddy procurement has been reported from Punjab. It’s adopted by way of Telangana, Odisha, Andhra Pradesh, Uttar Pradesh, Chhattisgarh and Haryana.

In keeping with FCI, there have been about 19,036 wheat procurement centres all through the continuing 2021-22 rabi advertising season, whilst the selection of procurement centres for paddy was once 73,870 all through KMS 2020-21.

The Centre procures foodgrains with two targets—making sure MSP to farmers and availability of meals grains to the weaker sections at reasonably priced costs below the general public distribution device.

In keeping with FCI, the whole inventory of meals grains—wheat, rice and coarse grains within the central pool is round 1,000 lakh metric tonnes—wheat (525.65 LMT), rice (304.85 LMT), unmilled paddy (262.20 LMT identical to 176 LMT of rice) and coarse grain (7.50 LMT). In Might ultimate 12 months, foodgrain inventory within the central pool was once round 800 LMT.

The present foodgrain inventory is far upper than buffer inventory norms. In keeping with the present foodgrain stocking norms, efficient since July 2017, a complete amount of 210.40 LMT of wheat and rice is needed because the operational inventory and strategic reserves as of April 1, adopted by way of 411.20 LMT as of July 1, 307.7 LMT as of October 1, and 214.10 LMT on January 1 once a year.