Procurement Difficulties Hurt Haryana

The lack of help, slower disbursal of payments, mistrust of procurement agents has led to many problems in Haryana in this wheat procurement season. The state started the procurement of wheat from April 20, five days after other states initiated the acquisition of grains. Till May 18, 7.04 million MT of wheat was procured in the state, against the Food Corporation of India (FDI) target of 9.5 million MT.

- Anilesh S. Mahajan

Punjab’s agencies acquired 12.1 million MT till May 17 against the state’s target of 13.7 million MT, whereas, Madhya Pradesh lifted 8.75 million MT of their target 10.5 million MT. This year, FCI has targets of refilling warehouses with 40.7 million MT. The targets are set for other states, such as Uttar Pradesh (5.5 million MT and has achieved 1.5 MT). They are all rapidly moving towards achieving their respective targets, well before the deadline of May 31.