Wheat arrival in Haryana steadily picking up

 By Haryananewswire

CHANDIGARH, MAY 18

The wheat arrival in Haryana is steadily picking up and over 58.62 lakh metric tonnes of wheat have so far arrived in the mandis of Haryana during the current procurement season.

         While stating this here today, a spokesman of the Food and Supplies Department said that out of it, over 58.54 lakh metric tonnes of wheat has been procured by Government agencies at the minimum support price and 8815 metric tonnes of wheat has been purchased by the private millers and traders.

          He said that HAFED had procured over 22.69 lakh metric tonnes of wheat, Food and Supplies over 14.56 lakh metric tonnes, Food Corporation of India over 7.24 lakh metric tonnes, Haryana Agro Industries Corporation over 5.68 lakh metric tonnes, Haryana Warehousing Corporation over 5.29 lakh metric tonnes and CONFED had purchased 3.06 lakh metric tonnes of wheat.

          He said that district Sirsa was leading in wheat arrival where over 8.31 lakh metric tonnes of wheat had so far arrived in the mandis, followed by district Karnal where over 6.53 lakh metric tonnes of wheat had arrived in the mandis. District Fatehabad ranked third with over 6.03 lakh metric tonnes of wheat followed by district Kaithal over 5.61 lakh metric tonnes, in district Jind where over 5.48 lakh metric tonnes of wheat had arrived. In district Kurukshetra over 4.56 lakh metric tonnes of wheat had arrived. Similarly, in district Hisar over 4.25 lakh metric tonnes, in district Sonepat over 2.98 lakh metric tonnes, in district Panipat over 2.34 lakh metric tonnes, in district Palwal over 2.10 lakh metric tonnes, in district Ambala over 2.04 lakh metric tonnes, in district Yamunanagar over 1.90 lakh metric tonnes, in district Bhiwani over 1.68 lakh metric tonnes, in district Rohtak over 1.50 lakh metric tonnes, in district Faridabad 91,010 metric tonnes, in district Jhajjar 72,022 metric tonnes, in district Gurgaon 45,822 metric tonnes, in district Mewat 42,273 metric tonnes,  district Panchkula 33,982 metric tonnes, in district Rewari 20,083 metric tonnes and  in district Narnaul 17,795 metric tonnes of wheat had arrived in the mandis.