What is the wheat procurement process in India?

We need to keep some things in mind here. There are different qualities of wheat and different farmers produce different quantities of wheat for sale. The farmers sell their produce in local "mandis". read more

Wheat procurement is generally done during April to March wheat marketing year. But this year procurement of wheat was taken up a month earlier by the Food Corporation of India. Till now about 30.1 MT of wheat has been procured by the FCI and other state agencies in the ongoing rabi marketing season of 2017-18. read more

India Business News: Ludhiana, Apr 22 The Punjab government is committed to procure grains from farmers and the wheat procurement process is going on smoothly in the en read more

“Around 125 lakh tonne of wheat is expected to come for procurement this year in Punjab,” HPS Grewal, additional director, Pungrain, state owned procurement agency, told ET. In Uttar Pradesh, FCI has procured around 26 lakh tonne of wheat against 37 lakh tonne in the last year. read more