Wheat procurement in the district crosses 3 lakh MT

Online payment of Rs 446.23 crore made to farmers against procured wheat

Kapurthala, April 29 (Punjab Post Bureau) – Procurement of wheat in Kapurthala district has crossed 3 lakh metric tonnes. Till yesterday evenaing 311278 metric tonnes of wheat has been procured by various agencies.

              Deputy Commissioner Mrs. Deepti Uppal said that till last evening 78890 MT by Pungrain, 82045 MT by Markfed, 66738 MT by PUNSUP, 45760 MT by Punjab State Warehouse Corporation and 37845 MT by FCI.

                 She said that so far Rs.446.23 crore has been paid online to the farmers in their bank accounts for the wheat procured which is 80.13% of the wheat procured.

               She said that Pungrain has contributed Rs.141.71 crore, Markfed Rs.118.93 crore, PUNSUP Rs.93.17 crore, Punjab State Warehouse Corporation Rs.72.79 crore and F.C.I have paid Rs.19.6 crore to the bank accounts of farmers.

                 Deputy Commissioner also said that strict guidelines have been issued to the concerned procurement agencies to expedite the collection of procured wheat. It may be mentioned here that 192439 metric tonnes of wheat has been lifted