Wheat procurement: Madhya Pradesh catches up with Punjab

A bumper production and Covid-19 pandemic have forced Madhya Pradesh federal government to procure more wheat from farmers, assisting the Condition to to catch up with best-ranking Punjab in phrases of federal government procurement this calendar year.

“We have procured 12.8 million tonnes (mt) of wheat so far from farmers. The procurement is in the previous leg,” mentioned a senior formal of MP Department of Food stuff, Civil Supplies and Consumer Protection. The procurement this calendar year was just about 74 per cent more as as opposed to seven.37 mt previous calendar year.

The enhance in output and more selection of farmers registering for selling the grain at procurement centres led to the enhance in procurement, mentioned the MP federal government formal. The MP federal government experienced before set a goal of procuring 9.5 mt from farmers.

With this, Madhya Pradesh, for the to start with time, will emerge as the next greatest Condition in phrases of federal government procurement of wheat up coming only to Punjab. For every formal figures available on the Food stuff Corporation of India (FCI) website on Monday, the total procurement of wheat from MP was 12.67 mt as as opposed to 12.seventy one mt from Punjab. Haryana, which typically will come next, has been ready to procure only seven.four mt so far. FCI and Condition companies carrying out procurement have procured 37.two mt until Monday.

However, there had been media reviews that a sizeable quantity of procured grains saved in the open up was harmed in the prevalent rains introduced by the cyclone Nisarga previous 7 days. The federal government resources, on the other hand, claimed that ninety six per cent of wheat procured from farmers was saved properly, away from the vagaries of temperature.

History output, far too

In however a different feat, the Condition may possibly have also climbed to the next place in wheat output in the country this calendar year, toppling Punjab. For every the 3rd progress crop estimates, total wheat production in MP is projected to be 18.six mt, which is .four mt more than Punjab. Uttar Pradesh — with an approximated production of shut to 32 mt —is at the best. “The wheat production in MP is predicted to be 1.25 mt more than previous calendar year. The output has been escalating above the previous number of a long time mainly because of availability of much better types to farmers,” mentioned SV Sai Prasad, Performing Director of the Indian Agricultural Study Institute’s Indore Study Station.

Durum wheat

What is significantly impressive about the Condition is the point that it has served India attain self-sufficiency in durum wheat, which is typically employed for producing daliya, pasta and vermicelli, he mentioned. Until quite recently, India employed to import these foodstuff resources. “Today, 1.two million hectares in MP is cultivating Indian durum wheat types,” Prasad mentioned.

According to him, there are 12 to thirteen foodstuff processing providers that use durum wheat for producing different foodstuff products and solutions have set up retailers in Indore as from only a pair in a number of a long time in the past.

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