Over 64.17 lakh tonne of wheat has arrived in the mandis of Haryana so far as against the total arrival of more than 63.61 lakh tonne of wheat during the last year.
While stating this here today, a spokesman of the Food and Supplies Department said that out of the total arrival of wheat, over 64.14 lakh tonne of wheat has been purchased by the government procuring agencies, while 3,079 tonne has been purchased by the traders.
Giving details of the wheat procured by the government agencies, he said that over 22.40 lakh tonne of wheat had been purchased by HAFED, 16.80 lakh tonne by Food and Supplies Department, 7.95 lakh tonne by Food Corporation of India, 6.47 lakh tonne by Haryana Agro Industries Corporation, over 5.84 lakh tonne by Haryana Warehousing Corporation and over 4.66 lakh tonne by CONFED.
District Sirsa was leading in wheat arrival where over 8.96 lakh tonne of wheat had so far arrived in the mandis, followed by district Fatehabad where over 6.51 lakh tonne of wheat had arrived in the mandis.